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U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, prompting emergency U.N. meeting

18 September 2016

U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated. The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it […]

Syria conflict: Russia fears collapse of ceasefire

18 September 2016

Russia’s military says rebel groups have increased attacks in Syria despite a ceasefire and has urged the US to act or be responsible for its collapse. Russian generals said attacks by rebels, some US-backed, had increased sharply over the past 24 hours. Gen Viktor Poznikhir […]

New Jersey charity race cancelled after pipe bomb blast

18 September 2016

A pipe bomb has exploded on the route of a road race in the US state of New Jersey, forcing the event to be cancelled but causing no injuries. The bomb had been placed in a rubbish bin along the route of the 5km Semper […]

U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, prompting emergency U.N. meeting

18 September 2016

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting. The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks […]

Israel to ‘Spy on the Middle East, Russia and China’ With US-Funded Satellite

17 September 2016

On Tuesday, Israel launched into orbit its seventh spy satellite, Ofek 11, which is set to provide the Israeli military with surveillance imagery of the developments in the Middle East; however experts tell Sputnik that the Israeli space program, which is financed by the US, […]

US Gives Russia Data About Location of ‘Moderate Rebels’ in Syria for First Time

17 September 2016

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 […]

Daesh Use Chemical Weapons in Attack North of Aleppo, Eight Reported Injured

17 September 2016

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 […]

An Unrepentant Trump Finally Acknowledges Obama as American

17 September 2016

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 […]

IMF: Mideast Conflict Has ‘Massive’ Economic Impact

17 September 2016

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 […]

4 ISIS leaders killed by Iraqi Army in Qa’em, Anbar: Sources

17 September 2016

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 Confirms Killing of IS Information Minister

17 September 2016

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,” […]

Facing Arms Shortages, IS Turns to Homemade Weapons

17 September 2016

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 […]