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A top Kurdish counter-terrorism and intelligence officer in Iraq has denied claims that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, caliph of the Islamic State, is dead. Russia stated last month that it killed the ISIS leader in May during an air raid on Read more
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan De Mistura, acknowledged in an interview with Sputnik that intra-Syrian talks to end the Syrian crisis are progressing. World powers have been concerned about the six-year old war and Mistura is convinced that the Read more
The Egyptian army has appeared in US-based military analysis Global Fire Power’s 2017 review of 133 world armies as the top army in the Arab world and the 10th on the world ranking, dominated by the United States and its Read more
The Syrian government could not hide its disappointment for the failure to establish four de-escalation zones during the Astana talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran. The head of Syria’s negotiation team, Bashar Ja’afari, held Ankara responsible as he stated that Read more
The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, has been confirmed by Ali Shirazi. The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei’s to the Revolutionary Guards – Quds Force was speaking to online news site Asr-e Read more
President Bashar al-Assad paid a maiden visit to the Khmeymim airbase in the Latakia province in what could be dubbed as a familiarization tour of the weaponry being used by the Russian air force helping his government repel attacks from Read more
Australia has announced that it is “temporarily” suspending the activities of its six warplanes partaking in the US-led air campaign on the Islamic State in Syria, as tension between the US and Russian military increases. The statement from the Australian Read more
Russia announced on Friday that it has killed the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an airstrike on May 28 on the southern outskirts of Raqqa. The city is ISIS de-facto capital in Syria. The statement released Read more
Russian ambassador to Israel has slammed the classification by the West, Israel and the Saudi Arabia-led bloc of Gaza ruler Hamas and Lebanon-based Shia movement Hezbollah as terror groups. As long as they have not attacked Russian interests, Moscow cannot Read more
Germany Friday urged Saudi Arabia-led clique to end the blockade they have imposed on Qatar and urged both sides to find solution through diplomacy. Receiving his Qatari counterpart in Wolfenbuettel, a town in Lower Saxony, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel Read more