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The US handed Russia data on the location of militant opposition groups operating in Syria for the first time, special representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Alexander Zorin told journalists on Friday. A preliminary analysis of this data suggested that distinctions hadn’t been made between […]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his support for the Tel Aviv regime’s expropriation of Palestinian territories and expansion of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. On Thursday, Ban told the Security Council during a meeting on […]

Daesh terrorists carried out a chemical weapons attack in the North of Syria’s Aleppo province, according to a Kurds militia source. Daesh terrorists used chemical weapons in artillery attacks on two settlements in the north of Syria’s Aleppo province on Friday, poisoning at least eight […]

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Friday that there is “no erasing” Republican Donald Trump’s promotion of the false “birther” theory that President Obama was not born in the United States, and said Trump owes Obama an apology. “We know who Donald is. For five […]

You’d think this wouldn’t be too hard a question: Was Barack Obama, the president of the United States, born in the United States? On the one hand, there’s a thick stack of documentation, from official records to newspaper announcements to eyewitnesses. On the other, there’s […]

A new study by the International Monetary Fund says the economic impact of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa is “massive and persistent” bringing soaring inflation, hurting the value of currencies, and sparking a flood of refugees to neighboring nations. The report’s authors […]

A source in the Iraq Army’s Jazeera Operations Command Center in Anbar province said four ISIS leaders have been killed in an attack in Central Qa’em. The source revealed that an ISIS gathering at al-Moalmeen neighborhood in central Qa’em was attacked by forces who epuipped […]

PENTAGON — Coalition forces killed one of the Islamic State terror group’s most senior leaders in a precision strike in Syria this month, the Pentagon said Friday. Wa’il Adil Salman al-Fayad, Islamic State’s so-called minister of information, who also went by the name “Dr. Wa’il,” […]

MOSUL IRAQ / WASHINGTON — As the Islamic State group’s arsenal of sophisticated weaponry dwindles, IS fighters are creating more homemade armaments. Commanders in the battlefield in Iraq told VOA this week that months of separate bombing campaigns by the U.S. coalition, Russian, and Iraqi […]