Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday predicted chaos if the United States elected an isolationist president, likening the withdrawal of America from world affairs to a soccer match without a referee. Asked how he would advise Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, should he […]

US Republican ex-President George HW Bush will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, US news website Politico reports. Mr Bush allegedly made the pledge to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, niece to US ex-President John F Kennedy. The former president’s office has not confirmed the report, […]

Despite Saturday’s errant U.S. airstrike that Russia claims killed 62 Syrian troops, the Syrian government is upping the battle against Islamic State fighters in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. Soon after the smoke cleared from the U.S. raid over the weekend, at least 1,000 […]

Tuesday’s gathering of the top U.S. and Russian diplomats, and more than a dozen of their Arab and European counterparts, ended with ritual reaffirmation of a cease-fire that has all but disintegrated, and promises of future negotiations. But it left Syria no closer to peace. […]

HAVANA — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani met with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Monday in Havana to reaffirm friendly ties between the two countries and express a commitment to deepening their collaboration, Cuban state media reported. During the visit, Iranian and Cuban officials signed […]

NEW YORK — A big blow was dealt to efforts to bring about peace in Syria when aid trucks trying to reach besieged Aleppo were hit in an airstrike Monday. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States is outraged at the bombing. “The […]

NNA – MP Mohammad Raad saw that electing a president “is a cornerstone, yet national partnership incarnated by another cornerstone which is the electoral law, can alone stabilize political life.” MP Raad’s words came Monday in the context of launching a book about interpreting dreams […]

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY — U.S.-backed allies in northern Syria appear set for a major clash even as they both race to liberate a strategic town from Islamic State (IS) terror group. Both Kurdish-dominated militias and Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels, who are backed by Turkey, are […]

PENTAGON — The coalition strike that Syria and Russia claim hit Syrian government troops may have struck a battalion of Syrian prisoners who were aligned with Syrian government forces but were in a separate location from the Syrian army, U.S. officials tell VOA. The investigation […]