Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has backtracked on his earlier statements that his country’s military forces launched operations in neighboring Syria to end the rule of the incumbent Damascus government, asserting that the offensives there are aimed only at terrorists.
More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of terrified civilians from east Aleppo, a monitor said Wednesday, as the UN Security Council was set for emergency talks on fighting in the city. As government forces pressed an assault in the divided city, regime artillery fire killed at least 21 civilians in east Aleppo on Wednesday morning, the Syrian… Read more »
Irbil, Iraq (CNN)At least 80 people were killed Thursday when a truck bomb exploded at a gas station in Iraq, the U.S. State Department said. Most of the victims were Iranian Shi’ite pilgrims, according to authorities in Iraq. ISIS, a Sunni terror group, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted online. “The flames of battles in Mosul will… Read more »
The Syrian government has sent text messages and dropped leaflets on Wednesday inviting rebels in eastern Aleppo to participate in a “friendly” football match, opposition activists and a member of parliament reported. The message asked fighters to attend the game on Thursday at Hamdania Stadium, located in the western government-controlled part of the city, adding that rebels who planned to… Read more »
Irbil, Iraq (CNN)Sunni politicians raised an alarm Monday after the Iraqi Parliament passed a law recognizing Iraq’s Shiite-led Hashad al-Shabbi, known as the Popular Mobilization Units, or PMU, as an independent military force. The more than 110,000 strong fighting group has been at the forefront of the fight against ISIS in Iraq. Its role is critical but controversial with human… Read more »
The U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition fired more than three dozen airstrikes at what it believed was an ISIS position outside the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour in September. But the strikes actually killed troops loyal to the Syrian government, and that prompted a military investigation into what went wrong. That investigation has now concluded that it was a series of… Read more »
Iran and China have signed a defence and joint military cooperation agreement. Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan signed the agreement along with his Chinese counterpart, General Chang Wanquan in Tehran yesterday at the end of an earlier meeting between the two sides.
“We have received confirmation that the expulsion of our journalist is under way,” Les Jours said on Twitter.
Nearly a dozen Arab nations accused Iran on Monday of sponsoring “terrorism” throughout the Middle East while increasing support for jihadist groups since signing the international nuclear deal last summer. In a letter to the U.N. General Assembly, 11 Middle East and North African countries condemned Iran for continuing “to play a negative role in causing tension and instability in… Read more »
In the recent weeksnot only the middle east but the world as a whole has been shocked by the outcome ouf the Unite states presidential election. Not only will this affect the US but the middle east as well. In particular this change of power from democrat to republican can has the most power to change things with the nuclear iran deal… Read more »