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Trump throws cold water on forming 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit' with...
President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he will not pursue a joint cybersecurity task force with Russia, throwing cold water on speculation that sprung from comments he made on Twitter earlier...
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Russia to push for more cooperation with the US in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will build on the success of a local ceasefire in south-west Syria and seek further opportunities to cooperate with the United States in resolving the Syrian conflict, Russian...
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Syrian watch group confirms death of Islamic State's main leader
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.Russia's defense...
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US military savagely trolls ISIS after reports that leader Baghdadi is dead
US military representatives trolled ISIS savagely on Tuesday after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been confirmed dead.When asked to...
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The US military has released the first footage of Marine artillery striking...
US Marines have been on the ground in Syria since March, when a detachment from an amphibious task force arrived in the country, where they joined US special-operations forces to support US partner...
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US allies caught on film torturing prisoners in Syria
A video recently surfaced showing US-backed forces torturing captives near the Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS' de facto capital that was recently invaded by coalition forces.The video shows men in YPG...
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Secret details of the Trump-Putin ceasefire in Syria focus on keeping Iranian...
A confidential U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement for southwest Syria that went into effect Sunday calls for barring Iranian-backed foreign fighters from a strategic stretch of Syrian territory near the...
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US troops are inside ISIS' Raqqa stronghold and closer to the fighting than...
Washington (AFP) - US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday.The troops, many of them special...
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US Army vet and former Occupy Wall Street activist killed fighting ISIS with...
Two Americans were killed last week while fighting with US-backed Kurdish YPG units near Raqqa, ISIS' de facto capital in Syria.Nicholas Alan Warden, 29, was killed July 5, and Robert Grodt, 28, was...
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Russia wants more of its allies to join the fight in Syria
Russia is pushing its allies to join the fight in Syria in hopes of broadening its influence in the Middle East, Uran Botobekov wrote in a Jamestown Foundation report.The chairman of the Russian State...
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Top counter-ISIS official: Middle East allies favor 'engagement with Russia'
US allies in the Middle East want President Trump to continue "engagement with Russia," according to a top counter-Islamic State official at the State Department."Engagement with Russia on Syria is...
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France's Emmanuel Macron gave a master class in pushing Trump's buttons
With one shrewd move, French President Emmanuel Macron has displaced German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the leader of the European Union — or at least as the EU's face, voice, and ear to its vital...
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EU sanctions Syrian scientists implicated in chemical attack
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on 16 Syrian scientists and military officials on Monday for their suspected involvement in a chemical attack in northern Syria in April which...
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Former Israeli security chief: Israel may have to take military action...
Israel may need to take military action to prevent Iran or Hezbollah from setting up permanent bases in Syria, former National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror said on Monday.Amidror’s comments...
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Turkey has agreed to buy Russia's advanced missile-defense system, leaving...
Turkey reached an agreement with Russia to purchase the latter's most sophisticated missile-defense system, the S-400, a senior Turkish military official told Bloomberg last week.Under the $2.5 billion...
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A brief anecdote sums up the difference in military strategy between Obama...
Buried at the bottom of a story on South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham's plan to save healthcare, The Washingtonian reported a short anecdote from Graham that perfectly encapsulates the difference...
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Even after ISIS collapses, its legacy will long haunt the Middle East
After three years of violence, Islamic State has encountered a major defeat that could mean that its end is near. On July 10 2017, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, after a successful nine-month...
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Here’s what would happen if North Korea exported nuclear weapons to the US’s...
North Korea shocked the world in the early morning hours of July 4 by launching a ballistic missile that could reach the US mainland — but North Korea has long had the ability to make and detonate...
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Turkey appears to have revealed the locations of US special-forces bases in...
The Pentagon has voiced concerns to Turkey after the NATO ally's state news agency disclosed the locations of 10 US military posts in northern Syria, an official said Wednesday.The Anadolu Agency (AA)...
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'Putin won in Syria': Trump is reportedly ending the CIA's covert program to...
President Donald Trump will end the CIA program authorized by his predecessor in 2013 to arm Syrian rebel groups against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Washington Post reported...
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