The United Nations is ready to deliver aid into Syria’s Aleppo, but needs commitments from all parties in the war – not just Russia – to abide by a 48-hour humanitarian truce, the U.N. aid chief, angered by lack of assistance to civilians, said on […]
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired cruise missiles at targets near Aleppo on Friday, a further sign of Moscow’s broadening military effort in Syria days after it began to fly bombing missions from an airbase in Iran. Russian air power had […]
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – The grand ambitions scrawled on a wall near the Libyan city of Sirte’s Mediterranean sea front look fanciful now: “Islamic State’s naval port, the departure point for Rome, with God’s permission.” Beaten back by local forces over three months and by […]
L’ancien président de l’Union soviétique Mikhaïl Gorbatchev a un jour déclaré que les Etats-Unis imposaient la démocratie comme s’il s’agissait de café instantané. “A l’époque, j’ai dit aux Américains: vous essayez d’imposer la démocratie à des pays différents, mais vous la livrez comme si c’était […]
BEIRUT: The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 years old. The extremist group has a history of using children as weapons, […]
ISTANBUL: A child suicide bomber killed at least 51 people and wounded nearly 70 others at a Kurdish wedding party near Turkey’s border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday, decrying the attack as an apparent attempt by Islamic State extremists to destabilize the […]
Ankara wouldn’t mind it if Russia used the Incirlik airbase for its anti-terror missions against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim hinted on Saturday, but acknowledged that no such requests have been made. Trends Islamic State, Syria unrest, Syria-Turkey “Turkey opened […]
China’s recent announcement of an increase of its humanitarian support for the Syrian people and that it would provide additional training to the Syrian forces comes as a “headache for the US,” according to the American media. “As if the multi-party war in Syria weren’t […]
Germany wants to introduce facial recognition at major transportation hubs to try and identify terror suspects, according to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. He added the technology would be able to identify potential suspects who would appear in a database. De Maiziere, who was speaking […]
Stuck in Cold War mentality Washington regards Russia’s activities in the Middle East as a setback for the US. The White House should learn from Russia what the “realist” foreign policy means, CIA veteran Paul Pillar writes. People walk near a Syrian national flag at […]
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