US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the strategic castle of Jaabar on the Euphrates River from the Islamic State. VOA’s Mahmoud Bali reports
US-backed Kurdish Forces Capture Historic Castle From IS Near Raqqa
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Lebanese Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Reviled Rape Law
Lebanese activists have ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut’s sunny seaside. A proposal to scrap Article 522 of the penal code — which deals with […]
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Iranian Beauty Takes US State Department by Storm Read more: https://sputniknews.com/art_living/20160922/1045600087/iran-us-representative-dialogue.html
The recent appointment of Iranian-American Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as Persian spokesperson for the US Department of State is likely to help improve the dialogue between Washington and Tehran. Nowrouzzadeh, who was born in Iran and moved with her family to the US as a child, is […]
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Are We Alone? Scientists Probe Decades-Old Space Radio Sources
NASA’s Swift gamma-ray burst space observatory launched an investigation to clarify a number mysterious radio sources detected decades ago. The Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) is a database of radio sources detected in outer space, compiled in 1959. In 1962, the catalogue was […]