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ERBIL, Iraq — The city of Tal Afar, a former Ottoman outpost not far from Mosul that has a mostly ethnic Turkmen population and has been home to a corps of Islamic State leaders, on Saturday became the focus of a growing struggle between Turkey […]

Tim Arango entered the city of Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday with Iraqi special forces soldiers. For the first time in more than two years, residents of eastern Mosul enjoyed a day without the Islamic State. As Iraqi security forces drove the muddy streets of the […]

Beirut (Tasnim/FarsNews/ParsToday) – Die ‘al-Mustaqbal’-Fraktion des libanesischen Parlamentes hat gestern Saad Hariri als Kandidaten für den Ministerpräsidentenposten vorgeschlagen.   Die Fraktion ‘Veränderung und Reform’ des libanesischen Parlamentes teilte mit, dass sie die Wahl von Saad Hariri als Ministerpräsident unterstützen werde.   Zurzeit ist Tamam Salam […]

El presidente sirio, Bashar al-Assad, consideró que seguirá al frente de su país hasta que finalice su tercer mandato de siete años, en 2021, e indicó que no habrá cambios políticos antes de que termine la guerra en su país. Durante una reunión con varios […]

El nuevo presidente de El Líbano, Michel Aoun, prometió liberar las tierras libanesas ocupadas por el régimen israelí. En su discurso de investidura como nuevo dignatario del país árabe, Aoun recordó que el régimen de Tel Aviv continúa representando la mayor amenaza contra El Líbano. […]

París, 31 oct (PL) El presidente de Francia, François Hollande, felicitó hoy al nuevo presidente electo del Líbano, Michel Aoun, con quien dialogó por teléfono, informó el Palacio del Elíseo. Según el texto, el mandatario galo presentó sus congratulaciones y reiteró la amistad de Francia […]

By Zeina Karam and Philip Issa | AP October 31 BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country’s long-running political paralysis would come […]

The pattern of support for Lebanon’s new President reveals the cleavages within Lebanese and regional politics, Sami Atallah of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies told Radio Sputnik. On Monday Lebanese MP’s voted to elect former army commander General Michel Aoun to be the country’s […]

On October 31, after more than two years of political stalemate, Lebanon’s parliament elected General Michel Aoun as the new president. If At First You Don’t Succeed… The Lebanese parliament took 45 failed attempts to elect a president who, according to the country’s Constitution, can […]