Clik here to view.
ISIS just got their hands on more US weapons
The Islamic State beat back an assault on Wednesday by US-backed Syrian rebels who tried to retake a critical border crossing with Iraq. It wasn’t just a rare battlefield win for the militants: it also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The US reportedly proposed increased military cooperation with Russia in Syria
The United States has proposed a new joint approach to the Syrian conflict that reportedly would increase cooperation between ongoing Russian and US military operations.The Washington Post reported on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hungary just jailed 10 migrants for illegally crossing the border
SZEGED, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Friday sentenced 10 migrants to between one and three years in jail for illegally crossing the border during a riot in September 2015, after Hungary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Kerry held a phone call with his Russian counterpart to discuss...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a phone call on Saturday to discuss ways of resolving the conflict in Syria, Russia's foreign...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Assad's 'new' cabinet keeps many of the same ministers in place
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fighting a civil war that has ruined the country economically and fragmented it regions, issued a decree to form a new cabinet on Sunday that kept key ministers in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cracks are starting to appear between Russia and Syria
Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah recently tackled the recent battles southwest of Aleppo, where the party reportedly suffered its worst losses since entering the conflict in Syria....
View ArticleClik here to view.
REPORT: A 'chilling' wave of torture, abductions, and killings is sweeping...
BEIRUT (AP) — Some Syrian opposition groups have adopted methods of abuse similar to those employed by the government of President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International said in a new report Tuesday that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here are 6 ongoing conflicts the next president will inherit
Whomever America chooses in 2016, among his or her first orders of business will be to spend a lot of time getting briefed on where the US military is deployed.Servicemembers around the world are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A 23-year-old British landscape gardener spent 5 months fighting ISIS in...
Joe Robinson stood on the roof of a former school with Kurdish soldiers in the town of Sarrin, Syria, firing a Cold War-era AK-47 at Islamic State suicide bombers trying to breach the 12-foot perimeter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Syrian military declares a 72-hour 'regime of calm' across Syria amid fighting
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian military has declared a 72-hour "regime of calm" covering all of Syria from 1 a.m. on Wednesday (1800 EDT Tuesday), a military source told Reuters, although fighting and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia will deploy their only aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean to...
Russia's state-run TASS news agency recently announced that Russia's sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, will deploy to the Mediterranean from October 2016 to January 2017 to fly sorties...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia: Obama and Putin confirm in phone call that they're ready to increase...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed in a phone call that both countries were ready to increase coordination of military...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The US and Russia may have just sealed Al Qaeda's fate in Syria
Al Qaeda has thrived in Syria thanks to the continued political survival of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Washington's failure to adequately support the revolution's more moderate opposition...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's what it's like for children to attend school in war-torn Syria
Syria's education system has taken a huge hit in the civil war that has dragged on for more than five years.Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country, but those who remain are struggling to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
These maps show the progression of Russian airstrikes in Syria
The Institute for the Study of War has produced nearly 60 maps on Russian airstrikes in Syria since they first began on September 30, 2015. The first map appeared less than 24 hours after the Russians...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This survivalist fashion line is designed to help Syrian refugees
The Syrian civil war — now entering its fifth year — forced over one million migrants to seek asylum in Europe in 2015, and the refugees' clandestine trips across the Mediterranean claimed over 3,700...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family of slain US journalist Marie Colvin sues Syrian government over her death
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a U.S. court, accusing the Syrian government of deliberately killing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intense video shows the moment a Russian helicopter is downed by ISIS in Syria
On July 9, a Russian Mi-35M helicopter was shot down by Daesh east of Palmyra, the Russian MoD reported.The gunship was flying a mission in support of the loyalist forces along with an Mi-24P Hind when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NATO is unleashing its most sophisticated radar aircraft against ISIS
NATO is sending its most sophisticated radar aircraft to help coordinate the campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the alliance decided at its summit meeting in Warsaw,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This recently arrested senior ISIS figure alleges the group has a 'good...
A British-trained navy officer who joined Islamic State has turned supergrass after being arrested by Kuwaiti authorities, becoming one of the most senior figures to hand over intelligence on the...
View Article