Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra said on Friday his party has always carried the project of building the State, noting that “the LF seeks partnership as stipulated by the Taef Accord.” In an interview on LBCI, Zahra said his party saw in President Michel […]

Israel has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of using commercial airline flights to ship weapons to the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah. In a letter to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon accused Iran of using airlines […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that Russia and Syrian government forces would continue their bombing raids in Aleppo until rebels vacated the city. “After a humanitarian pause, [the strikes] have resumed and will continue for as long as the bandits are still in […]

LONDON —  Turkish troops and Ankara-backed Free Syrian Army rebel fighters launched an assault Friday on al-Bab, a strategic Syrian town northeast of Aleppo which rival Kurdish militias aligned with the U.S. also want to seize from the Islamic State terror group. Syrian opposition sources […]

The United Nations human rights agency says it has reports that hundreds of people attempting to leave rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, have been prevented from doing so by rebel forces. It also says hundreds of men who left have gone missing after reaching regime-controlled […]

The Syrian army, backed by Russian warplanes, and an array of allied militias, is now in control of over 70% of the East Aleppo pocket. Although the complete liberation of Aleppo is inevitable, pro-government forces are in need of further improvements to help them score […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly two weeks into a crushing blitz, Syrian forces and their allies have taken control of nearly all of what was once an opposition stronghold in eastern Aleppo, touching off a new wave of evacuations Friday and raising concerns about hundreds of […]

Key U.S. allies in Europe are quietly expressing concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to Syria, warning that his pledge to work more closely with Russia, Damascus’ main backer, will do little to diminish the terrorist threat emanating from Syria. The diplomatic persuasion campaign has […]

ROCKETS, BOMBS, ARTILLERY But there was no sign of any such truce inside Aleppo. “There are aerial raids on the city’s neighborhoods with highly explosive incendiary bombs, barrel bombs and artillery shelling,” a fighter with the Nour al-Din al-Zinki rebel group on an eastern Aleppo […]