Despite severe casualties, regime forces backed by Russia take control of villages in Aleppo countryside Hundreds of forces of the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime have been neutralized amid operations over the last two weeks in [ More … ]
Days after residents in an isolated Bethlehem-area village received stop-work orders for mobile homes being set up as a school — structures for which locals insisted they had obtained the necessary permits — Israeli forces [ More … ]
Turkish security forces detained at least 645 foreign nationals over the past week as they tried to cross into Europe illegally from western Turkey’s Izmir province. The detentions came as part of operations targeting illegal [ More … ]
U.S.-backed Syrian militias said they fully seized the town of Tabqa and Syria’s largest dam from Islamic State on Wednesday, a major objective as they prepare to launch an assault on Raqqa, the ISIS urban stronghold. [ More … ]
– Scores of Daesh militants mounted a daring attack on Rutba on Monday – The Iraqi army said Tuesday it has fully seized control of the Rutba city in western Iraq from Daesh militants, reported [ More … ]
– The army says 772 Daesh militants were killed in battles – Iraqi forces have captured 74 villages and towns from Daesh militants in the first week of a major offensive aimed to oust the [ More … ]
The sailing boat Zaytouna (Olive), which belongs to aid flotilla of “The Women’s Boat to Gaza” was seen at Israeli Naval Base in Ashdod Port after it was seized by Israeli forces on International waters, [ More … ]
– Istanbul police teams seize 3.5 million Turkish liras ($1.16 million) in cash, 50 million ($16.5 million) in checks – Istanbul police seized millions of Turkish liras on Wednesday as part of a probe into [ More … ]
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