Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Members of the Iraqi forces watch Donald Trump giving a speech after his election win. They are part of the ongoing military operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, which Trump has vowed to destroy. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images To Donald Trump, one […]

The U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years ago, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday, calling it a “conservative estimate.” The official, who spoke to Pentagon […]

The Israeli military posted on Tuesday to Twitter, a map of southern Lebanon marking Hezbollah positions, infrastructure and armaments along a part of the Israeli border with Lebanon. The map, according to Channel 2 News, features over 200 towns and villages which the party has […]

PENTAGON — The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria intentionally struck a hospital in Mosul Wednesday to protect Iraqi forces from Islamic State fighters inside the building. The coalition said Iraqi forces requested “immediate support” after receiving heavy machine gun fire […]

Syrian President Bashar Assad said the election of President Michel Aoun for Lebanon’s presidency is a victory for Syria as he stressed that Lebanon can not adopt a dissociation policy, Syrian al-Watan daily reported Thursday. “The arrival of Aoun at Lebanon’s presidency is a victory […]

Syria’s army has suspended combat operations in eastern Aleppo, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. The move is to allow for the evacuation of civilians trapped in the battle zone. Mr Lavrov said some 8,000 people would be taken out. Government forces have retaken 75% […]

A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California coast Thursday morning. The quake occurred under the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles west of Ferndale, near the Oregon border, about 6:50 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake’s epicenter was about […]

Mufti of Syria Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun visited on Wednesday President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace accompanied by Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali. Following the meeting the mufti noted that Aoun was elected by the Lebanese people before being elected by […]

The Maronite Bishops held on Wednesday their periodic monthly meeting in Bkerke. Following the meeting, the bishops called for the swift formation of a national unity cabinet that boosts the country’s economy. They also urged the lawmakers to draft a new electoral law that gives […]