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“Change and Reform” bloc secretary, Deputy Ibrahim Kanaan said after his bloc’s weekly meeting “Contacts over the cabinet are still ongoing and there can’t be a final line-up before the president and the PM-designate agree on it”. “Respect for the National Pact which was demanded […]

ide Don’t take this stand-alone business too seriously. The folks who made “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” didn’t. This second entry in the Disney Empire’s conquest of George Lucas’ space opera does indeed have a mostly new cast of characters — at least one […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Aleppo’s fall to Syrian government forces is shaping up as the first major test of President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to cooperate with Russia, whose military support has proven pivotal in Syria’s civil war. The death and destruction in the city is only […]

A rapidly-increasing civilian death toll resulting from Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen has prompted the White House to halt the sale of weapons to Riyadh. Washington announced that instead it will shift focus to improving target practice in the kingdom and training the Saudi […]

Syria’s northern city of Aleppo was once a thriving commercial hub with a proud history dating back millennia. Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, much of the city has been devastated by intense shelling and airstrikes. As government forces work to wrest back […]

An Iraqi woman comforts a grieving relative at a collection point for displaced citizens of Mosul in this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 photo in the Mosul district of Gogjali, Iraq. Residents fleeing the fighting in Mosul say that two years of rule by the Islamic […]

FILE – An Islamic State flag flies over the customs office of Syria’s Jarablus border gate as seen from the Turkish town of Karkamis, in Gaziantep province, Turkey, Aug. 1, 2015. Three IS leaders were killed in a December 4 airstrike in Raqqa, IS’ de […]

Rebel resistance in the Syrian city of Aleppo ended on Tuesday after years of fighting and months of bitter siege and bombardment that culminated in a bloody retreat, as insurgents agreed to withdraw in a ceasefire. The battle of Aleppo, one of the worst of […]

UNITED NATIONS — Rebel fighters and the Syrian government have reached an agreement to allow the evacuation of civilians and opposition fighters from eastern Aleppo, as Russia says the Assad regime has ended its offensive against the city. A spokesman for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki rebel […]