President Barack Obama has granted the U.S. military the authority to locate and execute leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria that the administration had largely ignored and allowed to become the largest affiliate of the jihadist group in its history, reports The Washington Post (WaPo), citing unnamed U.S. officials.
Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad, told NPR the Assad regime was ready to cooperate with President-Elect Donald Trump, although the Syrians want to “wait and see” what his policies look like, “particularly toward terrorism.”
The Russian government issued a statement accusing assorted anti-Syrian government rebels of using chemical weapons in Aleppo, hours after refusing to participate in an international condemnation of both Damascus and the Islamic State for the same crime.
Contents: Hundreds of Australian migrants to be resettled in the United States; As winter approaches, Syria’s east Aleppo faces mass starvation
The Turkish pro-Erdogan publication Daily Sabah claims Russian officials are seeking meetings with their Turkish counterparts to discuss the placement of an air defense system in Turkey.
The Sunday Times of London scored an interview with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad over the weekend and found him utterly devoid of regret for his brutal actions in the Syrian civil war, which has killed some 400,000 Syrians and driven millions more out of the country.
The Unified Medical Bureau of Eastern Ghouta, an activist organization opposed to the regime of President Bashar Assad, claims that an artillery barrage from government forces struck a nursery in an opposition-controlled suburb of Damascus on Sunday, killing at least six children.
U.S. government and military leaders have begun the mission to convince the government of Turkey that cooperating with Syrian Kurdish militias, which Ankara considers terrorist elements, is the only way to defeat the Islamic State in its self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton – as senator, secretary of state, and active partner in the Clinton Foundation – has had the privilege of influencing major players in governments across the globe.
Contents: US-backed Kurdish militias in Syria make surprise announcement of Raqqa operation; Is Syria’s Bashar al-Assad a ‘necessary evil’?
Russia on Monday said its air force was continuing to hold off on strikes against war-ravaged Aleppo, after rebels snubbed Moscow’s offer to quit Syria’s second city.
Some Syrian women who survived Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) atrocities have reportedly joined a newly formed all-female battalion to combat the terrorist group.
Thousands of Russians have been fighting in Syria in anti-government ranks, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Saturday, issuing a warning of possible attacks by them on their return home. Last year, Moscow launched an
As Russia prepares to resume, and probably intensify, its war effort in Syria, human rights groups have increasingly condemned the nation for exacerbating the violence while not taking in Syrian refugees.
Three American service members have been killed in a “green-on-blue” ambush attack outside a Jordan military training facility.
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince for his take on the “happy talk we’re hearing” about the operation to liberate Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State (ISIS).
A Donald Trump presidency “might make the world ironically safer”, according to the former head of the UK Armed Forces. In an interview with House magazine, Lord Richards of Herstmonceux – the former Chief of the Defence staff – said Mr. Trump
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad insisted that Syrian society was “much better than before” as far as diversity and inter-ethnic cohesion, according to a New York Times report.
A Pentagon spokesman has confirmed that the United States is seeking to begin the operation to liberate Raqqa, Syria, of the Islamic State terrorist group as soon as a parallel operation in Mosul, Iraq, is complete.
A little surprise awaited employees of Amnesty International’s office in Moscow on Wednesday morning. The head of the office, Sergey Nikitin, said they “found that the door was broken and there were new locks.”
The Shiite-led government in Baghdad has vowed to dismantle predominantly Sunni Turkey following Ankara’s military build along the Iraqi border.
The United Nations has employed many friends, relatives, and political associates of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to work on relief operations in Syria, a move that has resulted in more aid being delivered to government-held territories than areas controlled by the opposition, reveal leaked UN documents obtained by The Guardian.
Rebel forces launched a new offensive to break the siege of Aleppo over the weekend, evidently with limited success, as the assault was said to be “slowing” by Monday morning.
A Reuters report has confirmed that Shiite militias closely aligned with the Iranian government and the terror group Hezbollah are actively participating in the liberation of Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State, following repeated denials from the Pentagon.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military spokesman is blaming the United States for a near-collision of the countries’ warplanes in Syrian airspace. Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement Saturday that the Oct. 17 incident involved a Sukhoi-35, Russia’s most
A pro-Palestinian group funded a 2009 visit by Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the U.K. Labour Party, to Syria, where he met with President Bashar Assad, English-language reports said this week.
A Saudi Arabian general has announced that the kingdom is “ready” to participate in any action to retake the city of Raqqa, Syria, from the Islamic State, complicating an already tense situation between a variety of militias and state militaries looking to engage the terrorist group in their de facto “capital.”
Rebel factions, backed by the former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, have reportedly launched a major offensive to break the siege east of Syria’s Aleppo city by forces loyal to the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Russia has promised to retaliate if the United States imposes new sanctions for Moscow’s brutal bombing campaign in Syria, especially against the besieged town of Aleppo.
(REUTERS – COLOGNE, GERMANY) Hani Salam escaped civil war in Syria and survived the journey from Egypt to Europe. But when he saw men with bushy long beards at a mosque near his current home in Cologne last November, he was worried.
Islamic State jihadists are using “suicide squads” from Syria to defend its last major stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, as a U.S.-backed force of up to 30,000 advance towards the city to push the terrorist group out, CNN has learned from witnesses.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. ambassador and AEI Senior Fellow John Bolton said California’s attempt to claw back enlistment bonuses from thousands of National Guard members was “outrageous.”
Contents: Spain blocks Russia fleet refueling stop over planned bombing in Aleppo Syria; The Gambia follows Burundi and S. Africa in leaving the International Criminal Court
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton’s plan for Syria would “lead to World War Three,” because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia.
While Russia enhances Cold War-era Soviet Union survival measures, nearly 330 American Marines prepare to deploy to Norway in January, boosting the U.S. military footprint in Europe, reportedly marking the first time a foreign military has been posted in the European country since World War II amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow.
Russia could shoot down a U.S. aircraft if a no-fly zone were imposed over Syria, National Intelligence Director James Clapper said Tuesday.
A Syrian Christian mother shared her story of escaping the Islamic State terrorist group in a suburb of Damascus while losing her son, George, after he refused to identify himself to the terrorists by a Muslim name.
Contents: In Iraq, Turkey’s artillery and possibly its jets are helping recapture Mosul from ISIS; In Syria, Turkey attacks both Kurds and ISIS near Aleppo
The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State will “simultaneously” carry out operations in its de-facto capitals of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, “as soon as possible,” declared U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
Contents: South Africa’s withdrawal throws future of International Criminal Court into doubt; Is the ICC racially biased against Africans?; The fallacy of prosecuting war crimes
