Syrian government soldiers, backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups, have managed to wrest control over six villages in the country’s western coastal province of Latakia following heavy clashes with foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants. On Friday, the Syrian forces regained control of the villages of […]
The United States and Russia reached a breakthrough deal early on Saturday to try to restore peace in Syria, but air strikes hours later on a busy market place that killed and injured dozens added to rebels’ doubts that any ceasefire could hold. The agreement, […]
WASHINGTON Sept. 10 (UPI) — The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Saturday shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by 1 percentage point. The online poll shows Trump with 47.73 percent, to Clinton’s 46.84 percent. Clinton slipped by two-tenths of a percentage point overnight, while […]
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking to wealthy donors at a fundraising event open to the press, said half of Donald Trump supporters are in “the basket of deplorables,” people who are racist, xenophobic, homophobic and misogynistic, a comment […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Construction workers on Saturday placed a 10-ton spire atop the Wilshire Grand Tower. The spire adds 160 feet to the 73-story building. That makes […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was wrong to put half of Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables,” but she didn’t back down from describing his campaign as largely built on prejudice and paranoia. The Republican accused her […]
WASHINGTON — Syria said Saturday that the Damascus government of embattled President Bashar al-Assad had accepted the cease-fire deal brokered by its Russian ally and the United States. “A cessation of hostilities will begin in Aleppo for humanitarian reasons,” the Syrian news agency SANA said. […]
Israeli aircraft attacked a Syrian artillery post on Saturday after a stray shell from fighting in Syria’s civil war landed inside the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Israel’s military said. The shell landed just across the border, causing no injuries, and in retaliation the air force targeted […]
The war in Syria with each passing day becomes less comprehensible even for Syrians. To date, there is no united front. There are a few hundred different militant groups fighting the Syrian government and each other. There are also foreign forces who are also involved […]
Washington’s plan to boost its Sunni alliance in the Middle East may bear no fruit, as Turkey has shifted the goalposts and established an alliance with Iran, a powerful state and a key player in the Shia Axis. Whether one likes it or not, Russia’s […]
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