The Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, meanwhile, has offered militants a chance to retreat, which they rejected, preferring to stay entrenched and launch provocative attacks while hiding behind civilian human shields. Read more ‘Information war technique’: Russia’s UN envoy slams ‘mass...
Muhammad al-Ashqar, a Syrian journalist and political expert, cautioned that there will be quite sometime before the IS is completely defeated as it still has sympathizers in Syria and elsewhere around the world, because its radical ideas are still alive. "The defeat of the radical methodology...
and then stayed in northeastern Syria to prevent a resurgence. In 2019, then-president Donald Trump withdrew many of those forces, but the US still maintains about 900 troops, based in Kurdish-controlled oil-drilling areas in the northeast and a garrison ...
BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces said Wednesday that Islamic State militants are putting up a desperate fight against their advances and staged a counterattack overnight from the tiny speck of land the extremists still hold in eastern Syria. The counterattack began from...
The article discusses changes in Israeli foreign policy after the Yom Kippur War and the "step-by-step" diplomacy of Henry Kissinger. The government of Golda Meir reached disengagement agreements with Egypt and Syria, but it was Yitzhak ... Fischer - 《Israel Studies》 被引量: 2发表: 2014年...
JohnKennedydemocrat, philanderer, started Vietnam War. It is rumored he was killed because he was going to end it and/or the FED. First gave his word then backed out of the Bay of Pigs deal Cuba. Came very close to WWIII i.e. Cuban Missle Crisis. ...
Homs, Syria. “It is the third floor”, he told me over WhatsApp. The building still stands but it looks like an empty skeleton. Most of its facade has been destroyed, while piles of debris surround it. Residents have not been able to return, as they fear it could collapse at any ...
DAMASCUS, March 25 (Xinhua) -- An attack by suspected Islamic State (IS) militants killed at least 11 people in the desert region of northern Syria on Sunday, a war monitor reported. The attack claimed the lives of at least two civilians and nine soldiers after their vehicle hit a landmin...
Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad's fall "a victory to the Islamic nation." Calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and not his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria "a farm for Iran's ...
DAMASCUS, March 6 (Xinhua) -- At least 18 people were killed, 16 others wounded, and 50 more reported missing following an attack by suspected Islamic State (IS) militants on individuals gathering truffles in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Wednesday, a war monitor reported...