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The US military has released footage from a massive battle that reportedly took place between Russian military contractors and the US and its Syrian allies in early February. The battle, wherein 500 or so pro-Syrian regime forces advanced towards a known US position in western Syria and fired with tanks and artillery, reportedly ended with […]
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Turkey gave advance notice that it was planning to launch an attack on US-allied Kurdish militias in Syria, but he did not specify if Washington tried to dissuade Ankara. ”Turkey was candid,” Mattis told reporters aboard a plane traveling to Asia from the US. ”They warned us before they […]
Reuters Turkey launched a massive air and ground campaign against US-backed Kurds in Syria on Saturday. The Kurdish YPG have released statements asking Turkey to “halt its unjustified threats.” Turkey launched a massive air and ground campaign against US-backed Kurds in Syria’s Afrin province on Saturday, which its military has code-named operation “Olive Branch,” […]
The US-educated Honduran president, Juan Hernandez, who supported a Washington-backed coup eight years ago, has been leading his country to bloodshed by cracking down on protests against the election fraud he allegedly staged, experts say. Hernandez, who has been Honduras’ president since 2014, was one of the lawmakers in 2009 to support the ouster of […]
Brett McGurk via Twitter As Iraqi forces close in on the Islamic State’s final patches of territory, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given the once-powerful terror group an ultimatum: Surrender or die. “Daesh members have to choose between death and surrender,” Abadi said, using a derogatory term for ISIS. ISIS has suffered severe territorial losses […]
REUTERS/Rodi Said RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raised a militia flag inside Raqqa stadium on Tuesday, one of the last remaining areas that were held by Islamic State in its former capital, a Reuters witness said. The flag of the Kurdish YPG, the strongest of the militias in the SDF, was […]
Published time: 17 Oct, 2017 07:46 The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have taken the National Hospital in Raqqa, one of the last remaining bastions of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in its former Syrian capital, Reuters reports, an SDF spokesman said. The SDF is now fighting IS in the area around Raqqa stadium, spokesman […]
Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 07:16 An Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) group used civilians as human shields to evacuate from the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Reuters on Sunday. The US-backed SDF are still trying to oust Islamists from the city, and some foreign […]
Published time: 21 Sep, 2017 07:16 Edited time: 21 Sep, 2017 08:03 US backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) approaching the Deir ez-Zor region from the north work to the same objective as Islamic State terrorists, the Russian Defence Ministry said. The MoD added that Syrian troops had been shelled from areas where SDF and US forces […]
Thomson Reuters U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, setting a red line for President Bashar al-Assad as both sides converge on Islamic State in Deir al-Zor, their commander said. Militia commander Abu Khawla said a civilian administration would be set up to […]
