Assad regime’s jets have continued to pound Kurdish-controlled parts of the northeastern city of Hasakah for a second day, killing at least 22 residents and forcing thousands to flee. People’s Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia, [ More … ]
Bashar al-Assad said the United States is “not serious”about defeating ISIS while voicing optimism about an end to Syria’s war. In an interview with NBC News in Damascus on Wednesday, Assad predicted the Syrian army [ More … ]
The United States is trying to verify that an airstrike recently killed a high-ranking ISIS commander after first saying that they killed him four months ago. U.S. warplanes targeted senior ISIS operative Abu Omar al-Shishani [ More … ]
Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday. The [ More … ]
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