Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces […]

US, Turkey and Poland are among the NATO member states which confirmed their readiness to dispatch naval units to the Black Sea in 2017, boosting the alliance’s presence in the region, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg noted “progress” in in strengthening NATO’s […]

KHAZER, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in […]

NNA – Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea categorically stressed that we shall have a “100% Made in Lebanon” president. “We are witnessing historic moments even if not satisfactory to all people,” Geagea said on Wednesday during a conference on “Enhancing Transparency in Oil and Gas […]

NNA – Education and Higher Learning Minister, Elias Bou Saab, on Tuesday met with a delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF), with talks focusing on the ministry’s projects and the costs of education in the country. Separately, Minister Bou Saab met with each of EU […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — His presidential dreams increasingly in question, Donald Trump pushed his business empire to the center of his political campaign Wednesday. Taking a break from battleground states, he made the case at his newest hotel that all Americans should look to his corporate […]

The final countdown: the final hour-and-a half debate took place in Nevada late on Wednesday, less than three weeks before the presidential election. Read more: https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/201610201046554540-us-final-debate/

There is growing evidence which shows that Saudi Arabia is deliberately targeting impoverished Yemen’s farms and agricultural industry, Dr Martha Mundy, an anthropologist and emeritus professor at the London School of Economics, who is currently working in Lebanon, but who worked in North Yemen from […]

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations humanitarian chief said Wednesday that Syria’s eastern Aleppo has essentially become a “kill zone” with more than 400 people slain and nearly 2,000 wounded in the past month. “So many of them, too many of them, were children,” Stephen O’Brien […]