Russia says Syrian regime forces pulling back from key Aleppo road
Russia on Thursday said Syrian regime forces have begun pulling back from around a key road into the ravaged city of Aleppo, freeing up the…
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Lavrov and Kerry agree to 48-hour extension of Syria truce
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday agreed to a 48-hour extension for a truce in Syria that began…
CIA director: USA does not have solution to Syria crisis
The U.S. does not have the cure-all for Syria’s woes, CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged Wednesday, stressing that the crisis, already in its sixth year,…
How we lost the peace in Syria
The German top diplomat explained that the West has made a number of mistakes and failures in the country and the Arab Spring “demonstrators and democrats” have…
How the USA Is Perpetuating the Stalemate in Syria
With no end in sight for the war in Syria, the Obama administration continues to approach the conflict in a way that is prolonging the…
US gives Israel $38 billion for its military
The United States and Israel put aside the antagonism between their leaders and reaffirmed their strategic bond on Wednesday, when Washington promised its ally an…
Obama: US plans to increase refugee admissions to more than 100,000 next year
The White House unveiled plans to increase refugee admissions to 110,000 next year amid a fraught US debate over the appropriate numbers to take in….
Police: Attack on veiled woman – ‘not Islamophobic’
A weekend attack in which a man set fire to a veiled British woman’s clothing in Manhattan was most likely not Islamophobic, police said Wednesday….
USA: IS chemical threat destroyed in Iraq
A well placed source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior informed on Wednesday that a significant chemical threat to Iraqi civilians were eliminated by American warplanes by bombing a…
Kerry and Lavrov’s Syrian Diplomacy Shows the Value of Détente
In Geneva on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, announced a plan to impose a cease-fire in…