Jeryes S. Khalil

As Mosul Battle Looms Large, Iraqi Troops Get Pentagon Drone Defense System

15 October 2016

Colonel John Dorrian, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led international coalition against Daesh, announced Thursday that the US Defense Department has given anti-aircraft systems to Iraqi soldiers in order to fend off drone attacks from jihadists. Iraqi News quoted a statement Dorrian released saying […]

Revealed: US Fighter Jets, Troops Have Been Deployed in East Africa Since July

15 October 2016

The US Air Force deployed a fleet of aircraft to east Africa over the summer to respond to potential threats in South Sudan. A statement released by US Africa Command on October 13 indicates that the Pentagon has been prepared to engage in South Sudan […]

Nixon Library opening ceremony for re-imagined galleries draws dignitaries, crowds

15 October 2016

YORBA LINDA – A year in the making, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum has been reborn. And so too, perhaps, has its legacy: from staid and stodgy to hip and incisive. The presidential library is, its patrons and officials hope, ready to engage […]

Trump endorsement by police group exposes divide among ranks

15 October 2016

ATLANTA (AP) — A national police organization’s endorsement of Donald Trump has exposed a divide within the ranks of law enforcement: Can they support someone who calls himself the law-and-order candidate but was caught on tape bragging about sexually predatory behavior toward women? And what […]

Lebanese Cabinet meets, Bassil defiant in boycott

15 October 2016

Lebanese ministers met for an ordinary Cabinet session Thursday despite a continuing boycott by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil

Lebanon busts terror cell, large weapons cache

15 October 2016

Lebanese security forces busted an alleged terror cell and confiscated a large cache of arms, General Security said in a statement Friday.

Russia accuses US of conducting ‘scorched earth’ policy

14 October 2016

MOSCOW — The Russian Foreign Ministry says that the United States is conducting a “scorched earth” policy in relation to Russia during the final months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters Thursday that “this is very dangerous.” Zakharova says that […]

US Strikes Yemen Sites in Retaliation for Missile Launches

14 October 2016

This frame grab of video provided by the United States Navy shows moments after a U.S.-launched Tomahawk cruise missile hits a coastal radar site in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, Oct. 13, 2016. Share See comments PENTAGON — The U.S. military said Thursday […]

‘Schizophrenic & incoherent’: US vows to fight Al-Qaeda… but refuses to battle offshoot Al-Nusra

14 October 2016

The US has repeatedly vowed to battle Al-Qaeda, but has so far been reluctant to attack the group’s Syrian branch, Al-Nusra Front, instead criticizing the Russian and Syrian Armies for striking it. Everyday Americans and experts have told RT how confusing this attitude looks. Trends […]

Syria’s Assad says taking Aleppo from rebels key to pushing ‘terrorists’ back to Turkey

14 October 2016

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army’s capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be “a very important springboard” to pushing “terrorists” back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria’s […]

Bassil, Bou Saab lay wreath on martyrs monument in Hadat

14 October 2016

NNA – FPM leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil, accompanied by Minister of Education and Higher Learning, Elias Bou Saab, laid a wreath on the martyrs monument in the town of Hadat on the occasion of October 13, in the presence of Baabda MPs […]

Syria Cease-fire Unlikely as Concerns Focus on Preventing Wider Conflict

14 October 2016

Top diplomats from the United States, Russia, and the Middle East will attempt to salvage a failed Syria cease-fire agreement Saturday with talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, followed by a separate meeting Sunday in London. The renewed efforts come less than two weeks after the United […]

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Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

As Mosul Battle Looms Large, Iraqi Troops Get Pentagon Drone Defense System

Revealed: US Fighter Jets, Troops Have Been Deployed in East Africa Since July

Nixon Library opening ceremony for re-imagined galleries draws dignitaries, crowds

Trump endorsement by police group exposes divide among ranks

Lebanese Cabinet meets, Bassil defiant in boycott

Lebanon busts terror cell, large weapons cache

Russia accuses US of conducting ‘scorched earth’ policy

US Strikes Yemen Sites in Retaliation for Missile Launches

‘Schizophrenic & incoherent’: US vows to fight Al-Qaeda… but refuses to battle offshoot Al-Nusra

Syria’s Assad says taking Aleppo from rebels key to pushing ‘terrorists’ back to Turkey

Bassil, Bou Saab lay wreath on martyrs monument in Hadat

Syria Cease-fire Unlikely as Concerns Focus on Preventing Wider Conflict