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US Syria pointman to also serve as anti-IS envoy
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
"With this additional responsibility, Ambassador Jeffrey will lead and coordinate US Department of State relations with the Global Coalition to defeat (IS) and ...
New Pentagon chief discusses Syria with Pompeo, Bolton
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
The meeting was the first of its kind for Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who started his new job January 1 following the resignation of his predeces...
Syria army allows more pre-2011 conscripts home
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
The decision, announced by state media Monday, ends the drawn-out deployment of Syrians who enlisted for between 18 months and two years of mandatory military s...
85 FARC members killed in Colombia since peace accord: UN
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
Between September 26 and December 26 this year alone, "14 ex-members of FARC were murdered," said UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres in his quarterly report ...
French defence minister in Jordan to visit troops fighting IS
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
After a stopover in Amman, where Florence Parly is set to meet with Jordanian Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz, she is expected to visit the H5 airbase from which ...
Russia, Turkey to coordinate on Syria after US pullout
Dec 29, 2018 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's move has already hastened a shift in alliances with Syrian troops deployed Friday in support of Kurdish forces around a strategic north...
Syrian army not in Manbij city: US military
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
"Despite incorrect information about changes to the military forces in Manbij city, (the US-led coalition) has seen no indication of these claims being true," U...
Israel estimates weeks remain in operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
An army spokesman made the comments as he announced that tunnels found dug from the Lebanese town of Kafr Kila towards the Israeli town of Metula had been succe...
German military looks to recruit in other EU nations
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
The proposal -- controversial because to critics it evokes a "mercenary army" rather than a force of loyal citizen-soldiers -- is "one option" being looked at, ...
Israel says finds, destroys fifth tunnel from Lebanon
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
The military launched an operation earlier this month to locate and destroy tunnels from Lebanon that it said Hezbollah was planning to use in a future conflict...
Moscow accuses Israel of 'gross violation of sovereignty' in Syria strikes
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
"We are very concerned by the attacks and how they were made. This is a gross violation of the sovereignty of Syria," the Russian ministry of foreign affairs sa...
Order signed for US military's controversial Syria exit
Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)
Trump announced Wednesday that the roughly 2,000 US troops would leave civil war-racked Syria, where they have been deployed to assist in a multinational fight ...
Papua governor asks Indonesia to withdraw troops
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
The killings were a marked escalation from decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised guerrillas and a powerful Indonesian mili...
Israeli army says destroys Hezbollah tunnel from Lebanon
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
"A cross-border attack tunnel dug from the Shiite village of Ramyeh into Israel was detonated" in an operation on Thursday night, the army said in a statement. ...
Coalition strikes kill 27 in eastern Syria: monitor
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
The strikes came two days after US President Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria raised fears the Islamic State group would use the vacuum to re...
US defense chief quits as Trump pulls from Syria, Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
Trump steadfastly defended his sudden push for retrenchment, vowing that the United States would no longer be the "policeman of the Middle East" and saying the ...
Israel begins destroying Hezbollah tunnels: army
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
Since launching an operation to cut off the tunnels on December 4, the military says it has located four underground passageways infiltrating Israeli territory....
In Syria pullout, US reaches detente with Turkey
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
Trump spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, five days before the US leader's surprise announcement of a pullout of 2,000 troops fro...
US does not want to be 'policeman of the Middle East': Trump
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
"Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost...
Trump stuns allies by ordering US troops home from Syria
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
The decision runs counter to long-established US policy for Syria and the region. It blindsided lawmakers, the Pentagon and international allies alike. Britain ...
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