NNA – President Bashar al-Assad received on Wednesday a phone call from the Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussing with him latest developments related to combating terrorism in Syria and the exerted political efforts to resolve the crisis in it. The Russian President stressed, during the […]
NNA – Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said in the wake of this evening’s legislative session that the electoral law was an essential factor to rectify representation and recover trust in the political regime. “The legislative session was very fruitful, and we […]
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s major Christian political parties participated Wednesday in a rare legislative session – the first to be convened in almost a year – in a bid to ease tensions with Speaker Nabih Berri over the presidential elections. Berri announced Tuesday that the Amal Movement’s […]
MOSCOW: The Russian military said a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a Syrian village in the province of Aleppo has killed six civilians. The military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria said Tuesday’s strike on the village of Hassajek also wounded four people and destroyed two houses. Russian […]
PENTAGON — More than 100 American troops are accompanying Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces in their push to take back the city of Mosul from Islamic State forces. Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Tuesday the Americans are assisting about 10,000 Kurds, 18,000 […]
AL-HUD, Iraq (AP) — The mutilated bodies of Islamic State group fighters were still strewn on the ground of this northern Iraqi town on Wednesday. One was burned. Another’s face was flattened by abuse. Iraqi troops on the march toward Mosul moved into al-Hud a […]
QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) — For Saif, an Iraqi army corporal, the battle for Mosul is intensely personal. Over the course of two years of Islamic State rule, the extremists destroyed his home, arrested his father, killed his brother and forced his fiancee into […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry played down expectations of a new Syrian ceasefire deal with Russia after talks in Geneva aimed at agreeing on how to separate al Qaeda-linked militants from opposition fighters in the besieged city of Aleppo. After two failed ceasefire agreements […]
GENEVA — A senior U.N. official says humanitarian agencies will take advantage of a 72-hour cease-fire in Yemen to rush life-saving aid to tens of thousands of people in areas that have been cut off by the conflict for a long time. The cease-fire is […]
There are signs that leaders from self-styled Islamic State (IS) have fled Mosul as Iraqi forces close in on the city, the US military says. “Make no doubt the Iraqi security forces have the momentum,” Gen Gary Volesky said. The Iraqi army has been moving […]
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