GAZIANTEP, TURKEY — The fragile three-day-old Syrian cease-fire negotiated by the U.S. and Russia appeared increasingly troubled Thursday with Moscow accusing Washington of failing to rein in rebel militias, and insurgent commanders saying there’s little point to the truce while Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, continues […]
Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce. An organization that monitors the war also said […]
U.S. President Barack Obama will convene a meeting with world leaders to discuss the global refugee crisis at a United Nations gathering next week, the White House said on Thursday. “There are too few countries around the world that are bearing a significant burden in […]
The idea that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis should be fixed in every final document of an international meeting on Syria otherwise the short-term truce can’t be regarded as achievement, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari told […]
A senior Iranian official says Saudi Arabia has politicized the Hajj rituals, advising officials in Riyadh against trying Tehran’s patience. “Unfortunately, Saudi rulers have turned the Hajj into a political leverage in order to mount pressure [on other countries] and use it in service of […]
Israeli military aircraft have carried out three air strikes against areas in the Gaza Strip in yet another act of aggression across the region. The first airstrike struck an open area northwest of Beit Lahia city in the early hours of Thursday morning, Arabic-language Safa […]
Syria shot two surface-to-air missiles at Israeli jets—and they shot at the Israeli jets not even over their own air space. These were not errant missiles or spillover shots which is military parlance for mistakes. These missiles were calculated and intentionally targeted shots from an […]
The Syrian army says it has shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone inside Syria following an Israeli attack on Syrian army positions in the south, state media report. Syria’s official SANA news cited the Syrian military as saying that the intruding aircraft had […]
The United States has conducted a fresh drone strike in the southwestern Yemeni province of Bayda, killing five people. An unnamed tribal chief told AFP that the drone attack hit a car carrying the five, who are claimed to be suspected al-Qaeda militants, in a […]
Iran’s foreign minister says the Saudis have long spent their petrodollars to export the extremist Wahhabi ideology, a “death cult” inspiring terror groups, emphasizing that the regime cannot continue to play the “Iran card” to keep its allies on board in this “folly.” In a […]
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