and especially the terrorists of IS." He said the officials had spoken "in detail about the movements of ISIS, whether on the Syrian-Iraqi border, inside Syria or inside Iraq" during the visit.
The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central Command and the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday."The Iraqis continue their impressive victo...
The Hittites of Syria and Asia Minor may have been of “Hemetic descent” and may have built the Temple at Jerusalem; the Etruscans, from whom architecture was learned by the Romans, may, have been Hittites; at the downfall of Rome, the Roman Collegia may have settled in that island on...
Inside the Imam al Shafi'i mosque in the neighbourhood of Mezzeh he spoke briefly about how Syria had been driven to devastation by the corruption and greed of the Assad family. He praised the efforts of his fighters who, he claims, took charge of Syria without any f...
country with dignity and we have made progress in this direction, but today we are facing a power vacuum, so we must tighten our ranks, both at the community level and at the general level of Syria," said Hikmat Al-Hijri, spiritual leader of the Al-Muvaheddin Druze tribe in Syria. ...
After his situation improved, he says, he took advantage of the pause in his political life to get back to his previous work in conflict zones, which brought him to Syria. Pedneault says the election of Donald Trump in the United States convinced him he ”couldn’t stand...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Saturday that the government would reconsider its military presence in northeastern Syria if that country’s new leaders eliminate the presence of the PKK in the area. Also Saturday, Kurds in northeastern Syria staged ...
Sewell is the Associated Press news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. She joined the AP in 2022 but has been based in the region since 2016, reporting and guiding coverage on some of its most significant news stories. twitter mailto KAREEM CHEHAYEB Chehayeb is an Associated Press ...
The administration of US President Donald Trump has cut off most of the funding Washington had been providing to the controversial ‘White Helmets’ volunteer organization in Syria, after it was alleged to have been involved in a number of false flag attacks. Ukrainian forces continue to attack ...
Article content RUSSIAN S-400S, SYRIA Article content Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 land-to-air defenses badly strained U.S. relations, prompting Washington to sanction Turkey’s defense industries and oust it from an F-35 production scheme. Article content “Who will we use the S-400...