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The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies now view Islamic State as a shrinking and increasingly demoralized military force, a sharp shift from the seemingly invincible extremist army that declared an Islamist caliphate two years ago. The revised assessment comes after surprisingly swift and relatively bloodless […]

BEIRUT >> Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seized a number of villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Sunday amid Turkish airstrikes and shelling that killed at least 35 people, mostly civilians, according to rebels and a monitoring group. Turkey sent tanks across the […]

The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that 120 militants have voluntarily left the Damascus suburb of Darayya with their families. The reported departure comes shortly after Syrian state television announced that a four-year of siege of the area had drawn to a close. Trends Syria […]

The spark that set off the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 was the bus massacre known as the “Ain El- Remmaneh incident.” However, this particular bus was recently turned into a restaurant for the poor by the Bonheur du Ciel association that runs centers for […]

NNA – “Change and Reform” parliamentary bloc head MP General Michel Aoun welcomed on Saturday at his Rabieh residence Former Minister Abdel Rahim Mrad with discussions reportedly featuring high on Lebanese and regional affairs, especially current situation. In the wake of the meeting, Mrad hoped […]

NNA – Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Levant, Yuhanna X Yaziji, arrived in Cyprus on Saturday heading an ecclesiastical delegation, upon an invitation by Cypriot Archbishop Chrysostomos II. Yaziji began his visit by meeting with Chrysostomos at the headquarters of the Archbishopric in Nicosia, […]

The Turkish-led “Euphrates Shield” operation is likely to swing the balance in favor of Washington, some analysts say, while others warn that the US may alienate its Kurdish allies in Syria. They agree, however, that Ankara’s involvement will dramatically change the course of the war. […]

There’s no safe place left in Aleppo, where heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels is shifting from neighborhood to neighborhood. RT’s Lizzie Phelan went to Aleppo’s most active frontline to talk to residents that still remain. The southern part of the city became […]

Turkish-backed fighters skirmished Saturday with Kurdish forces in northern Syria, pushing the two U.S. allies in the war against Islamic State extremists closer to an all-out confrontation. Turkey’s Anadolu news agency said one Turkish soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a rocket […]