The slow demise of the Assadregimehas offered Isis space to grow; produced a refugee crisis that reshaped Europe; and killed as many as half a million people. Its fall leaves a strategically crucial nation splintered and facing an uncertain future. It became clear on December 2 that a regime...
In southern Ukraine, at least five people were killed and another 15 injured amid heavy Russian bombardment of the port city of Mykolaiv. One of the victims died after picking up unexploded ordnance. In Kyiv, one person has been killed and several seriously injured by missile strikes. Mayor Vi...
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During the conflict, Israeli air strikes turned entire buildings and streets in southern Lebanon into rubble. Many Lebanese civilians, including children and healthcare workers, were killed in these air strikes over the 14 months of fighting. "Civilians were killed. Civilians were driven out of the...
“People in Aleppo are feeling more comfortable now we’re further from the areas under the regime’s control,” said the 29-year-old, while still using a pseudonym in fear Assad could retake the city. “At the same time, I have many friends serving in the army and I don’t want ...
Mr Assad has since arrived in Moscow with his family, a Kremlin source told Russia's state-run TASS news agency. While many did not anticipate the scale and speed of the rebel offensive in Syria and many questions remain over the political future of the country, this offensive marks the ...
Those opposition hubs, located in Idlib and eastern Ghouta, are where hundreds of Syrians have been killed in a ruthless offensive by Assad’s forces over the last week, and in east Syria where the Iranian axisseizedthe border town Abu Kamal this week after an extremely bloody battle. ...
Bashar al-Assad was, to some extent, saved by this earthquake which killed so many people and devastated so many parts of Turkey and north-west Syria. And it was the opening that he had hoped for that brought Arab countries back to Damascus to talk to him. And you can tell that Iran...
Without better intelligence on the ground, it’s difficult to estimate with confidence how many fighters ISIS has and their different motives for fighting, how many have been killed and how quickly they are being replaced. U.S. officials say some 13,000 ISIS fighters have been killed by ...
In one extreme case, the CIA reportedly killed 76 children and 29 adults solely in attacks targeting Al Qaeda heavy Ayman al Zawahiri. They never got him. He is the current head of Al Qaeda. In all, she found that as many as 1,147 people may have died just in attacks targeting the...