Month: October 2016

So-called Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, new data shows. Security and defence analysts IHS say the group’s control has shrunk by 28% since its height in January 2015. In the first nine months of this […]

Hurricane Matthew is no longer a hurricane: It was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone around 5 a.m. ET on Sunday as it made an eastward turn and began to move out into the Atlantic at 14 mph. The newly-minted post-tropical storm Matthew has maximum sustained […]

German police have detained a man in Chemnitz who allegedly maintained contacts with a 22-year-old Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack. An anti-terrorist operation was launched in Chemnitz on Saturday after police discovered “highly sensitive explosives” in an apartment belonging to Jaber Albakr, who […]

Russia can’t see that the US is seriously fighting militants from the Al-Nusra terrorist group in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that, though American fighter jets make a lot of flights, they don’t hit many targets. Moscow “doesn’t see any facts that […]

Syrian government forces and their allies recapture several towns and villages in Hama province, pushing back militants who had made significant advances in the area in recent weeks. Lebanon’s Al Manar TV said the Syrian army seized towns or villages including al-Talisiya, al-Qahira and Tel […]

Kriegsgedächtnis… Bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges stand der Libanon unter türkischer Verwaltung. Im Friedensvertrag von Sèvres vom Sommer 1920 wurde die gesamte Region des Nahen Ostens zwischen Grossbritannien und Frankreich aufgeteilt. Dabei erhielt Frankreich den heutigen Libanon und das Gebiet des heutigen Syriens als […]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the reports on Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister’s visit to Yemen for talks with the leaders of the Houthi movement “fabrication.” A soldier looks at people rallying to show support to a political council formed by the Houthi movement and the […]

Houthis rebels from war-torn Yemen launched attack with a ballistic missile on the territory of Saudi Arabia, according to official statement of the military command of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Yemen. Supporters of the Shiite movement of Houthi protest in Sana © Sputnik/ Osama […]

The recent appointment of Iranian-American Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as Persian spokesperson for the US Department of State is likely to help improve the dialogue between Washington and Tehran. Nowrouzzadeh, who was born in Iran and moved with her family to the US as a child, is […]