Month: October 2016

D Who won the presidential debate tonight? Donald Trump (63%, 24,312 Votes) Hillary Clinton (37%, 14,292 Votes) Total Voters: 38,601 Donald Trump apparently delivered his strongest presidential debate yet tonight, according to voters watching the debate. Votes are still being tabulated as the debate is […]

NNA – The European Union accused the Syrian government and Russia of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Syria’s eastern Aleppo, as well as using banned weapons, which could amount to a war crime. “Syria watched disparagingly the statement issued by the European Union foreign ministers, […]

NNA – President Bashar al-Assad received on Wednesday a phone call from the Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussing with him latest developments related to combating terrorism in Syria and the exerted political efforts to resolve the crisis in it. The Russian President stressed, during the […]

NNA – Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said in the wake of this evening’s legislative session that the electoral law was an essential factor to rectify representation and recover trust in the political regime. “The legislative session was very fruitful, and we […]

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s major Christian political parties participated Wednesday in a rare legislative session – the first to be convened in almost a year – in a bid to ease tensions with Speaker Nabih Berri over the presidential elections. Berri announced Tuesday that the Amal Movement’s […]

MOSCOW: The Russian military said a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a Syrian village in the province of Aleppo has killed six civilians. The military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria said Tuesday’s strike on the village of Hassajek also wounded four people and destroyed two houses. Russian […]

PENTAGON — More than 100 American troops are accompanying Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces in their push to take back the city of Mosul from Islamic State forces. Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Tuesday the Americans are assisting about 10,000 Kurds, 18,000 […]

AL-HUD, Iraq (AP) — The mutilated bodies of Islamic State group fighters were still strewn on the ground of this northern Iraqi town on Wednesday. One was burned. Another’s face was flattened by abuse. Iraqi troops on the march toward Mosul moved into al-Hud a […]

QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) — For Saif, an Iraqi army corporal, the battle for Mosul is intensely personal. Over the course of two years of Islamic State rule, the extremists destroyed his home, arrested his father, killed his brother and forced his fiancee into […]