Month: September 2016

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia on Sunday compared Donald J. Trump’s encouragement of Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails to the Watergate scandal, which led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation. Mr. Kaine, Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, made the remarks on ABC’s “This Week” while […]

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s supreme leader on Monday said Saudi Arabian authorities “murdered” Muslim pilgrims who were injured during last year’s hajj stampede. “The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers — instead of providing medical treatment and helping them […]

Turkey says Turkish-backed rebels battling Islamic State extremists on the Syrian border have driven IS fighters from their last remaining strongholds along a 100-kilometer stretch of borderland. Turkey’s direct military involvement in the push against IS began late last month, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]

The US policy in Syria has two sides, including fighting terrorism with the help of Kurds and resolving political crisis in the country. However, currently Washington is focused on supporting Kurdish forces fighting Daesh in Syria. White House © Photo: pixabay How Obama’s ‘Status Quo’ […]

Hundreds of unaccompanied refugee minors have gone missing after arriving in the United Kingdom over the past five years, data disclosed by the UK Home Office indicate. An elderly refugee man stands with children as they wait for the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, […]

Despite new allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Washington is unlikely to start a unilateral military operation in Syria. Moreover, the United States will not significantly change its policy in Syria in the near future, a French analyst said. U.S. President Barack […]

Turkey will never allow the formation of an “artificial state” in northern Syria, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday, referring to the U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters whose advance Ankara is now aiming to stop. Turkey and its allies opened a new line of attack in […]

HANGZHOU, China: The United States and Russia came up short Sunday on a deal to end years of brutal fighting between Syria’s Russian-backed government and U.S.-supported rebels. Negotiations were to continue Monday, even as a dispirited President Barack Obama doubted the diplomacy would ever pay […]

BEIRUT: Syrian pro-government forces backed by airstrikes launched a wide offensive in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, capturing areas they lost last month and almost besieging rebel-held neighborhoods, state media and opposition activists said. The push came a month after insurgents captured several […]