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December 27, 20164:08 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Tom Bowman Facebook Twitter Ari Shapiro Facebook Twitter Tumblr Instagram In 2017, major fighting against the ISIS in Iraq may wind up and focus may shift to a new protracted campaign in northern Syria. Ari […]

Ankara: The United States embassy in Ankara denied Washington had ever supported Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian conflict after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the extremists had enjoyed US backing. “The United States government is not supporting Daesh,” the embassy said in […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he has evidence that U.S.-led coalition forces give support to terrorist groups including the Islamic State and Kurdish militant groups YPG and PYD, he said on Tuesday. “They were accusing us of supporting Daesh (Islamic State),” he told a press […]

Information Minister, Melhem Riachy, said on Wednesday that he utterly refused having journalists be subjected to any sort of injustice. “The Ministry of Information will be a ministry for journalists. It will support freedom, professional ethics, and will protect all those who are subjected to […]

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has dismissed claims that the new government in Lebanon is a reflection of the military victory of Syria’s regime and Hizbullah in the strategic city of Aleppo. “Lebanon is enjoying satisfactory stability compared to all of what’s happening in the […]

Head of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, held talks Wednesday with a visiting delegation from Russia’s senate, or Federation Council. The delegation comprised the head of the council’s foreign relations committee, Konstantin Kosachev, the committee’s deputy head, member of the committee on […]

Minister of Telecommunications, Jamal Jarrah, said on Wednesday that the “workshop” that would begin by the beginning of the new year would focus on Fiber Optics, 4G, wireless networks and power stations. The Minister’s words came during a reception he held earlier today in honour […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A stray backpack prompted the partial evacuation of Trump Tower on Tuesday, though bomb squad technicians quickly determined the unattended bag contained children’s toys and was harmless. Video posted online showed people running through the Manhattan skyscraper’s public lobby as uniformed […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday lit into President Barack Obama’s comments about how he could have defeated Trump to win a third term and again criticized his administration’s decision to abstain from a critical United Nations Security Council vote on Israel. “Doing my best to […]