In its latest monthly casualty report, the United States-led coalition fighting in Syria and Iraq said on Friday it killed at least 624 civilians in its attacks against the Islamic State in the past three years.
“Although the coalition takes extraordinary efforts to strike military targets in a manner that...
Russia is interested in keeping forces in Syria in part because they “love to stick it to America,” CIA Director Mike Pompeo (pictured) said on Thursday, adding that he hadn’t seen evidence that Moscow was determined to defeat ISIS in Syria, US media reported.
Pompeo told intelligence and national...
United States President Donald Trump has, allegedly, decided to close the CIA’s c secret program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting against Bashar al Asad’s regime, something Russia had long pushed the US to do. US officials told the Washington post that the ending of years-long program reflects...
United States President Donald Trump reiterated on Thursday that the meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin enabled a ceasefire in Syria that “saved a lot of lives,” and another ceasefire would be brokered in “a very rough part of Syria.”
Speaking in Paris alongside French President...
United States President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday, “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion. We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in...
The fifth round of negotiations aimed at ending the Syrian civil war begins on Tuesday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana. Two-day peace talks, which are sponsored by Russia, Iran and Turkey, will be focused on establishing four safe zones in a country that is for years being ravaged by a bloody civil...
United States President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron vowed on Tuesday to join forces in responding to the Syrian government in the event of another chemical attack, according to AFP. The two leaders spoke on the phone to discuss a number of issues concerning...
Israeli Defense Forces attacked two tanks of the Syrian Army on Saturday in response to ten projectiles which were fired from the war-torn country into the Israeli part of the Golan Heights. Since the Six-Day War, the western Golan Heights are controlled by Israel, while the eastern third of the region is...
The United States will take back weapons delivered to Kurdish fighters in Syria after the Islamic State is defeated, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a letter to his Turkish counterpart on Thursday.
According to Turkish media, Mattis promised Ankara that the US will take steps to ease Turkey’s...
The United States-led coalition shooting down of a Syrian government warplane is an “act of aggression” and “help for terrorists,” aside from being a violation of international law, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday. The Kremlin official added that the US has a tendency...
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