The Syrian government now controls 93 percent of Aleppo, Russian news agencies cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying on Saturday. “People are leaving through humanitarian corridors in a continuous flow into the part …
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Saturday hailed a “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia, denying reports that the two powerful Arab nations had fallen out after Egypt expressed support for the Russian intervention in …
By Greg Jaffe and Greg Miller December 9 at 4:50 PM President-elect Donald Trump is assembling a national security team dominated by retired generals who share a deep distrust of Iran and have characterized …
Germany has urged Israel in unusually strong language to scrap legislation that would legalise Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, saying it would break international law. A …
The Syrian army’s advance in Aleppo slowed on Thursday but a victory was still firmly in sight after President Bashar al-Assad vowed that retaking the city would change the course of the six-year-old war. …
Malaysian ruling party icon Mahathir Mohamad has accused current leader Najib Razak of “destroying” the country by clinging to power despite a corruption scandal, and vowed to campaign vigorously for the opposition in coming …
To loud applause, Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party members on Tuesday that Germany should ban full-face veils “wherever legally possible” and that it would not tolerate any application of Shariah law over German …
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said recent army advances in Aleppo will completely change the course of the country’s war, state television reported on Wednesday. Syrian government forces may be on the verge of taking …
n the early days of the assault on Islamic State in Mosul, Iran successfully pressed Iraq to change its battle plan and seal off the city, an intervention which has since shaped the tortuous …
The Obama administration’s failure to enforce the “red line” it drew for intervention in Syria against President Bashar Assad in 2013 “cost” the US “significantly” in the Middle East, US Secretary of State John …
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