In a wide-ranging speech viewed by more than 11,000 people from over 30 countries, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday commemorated the 15th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq by highlighting its devastating consequences and issuing an urgent call f ...[
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Israel-Palestine peace effort.
The two leaders will hold talks regarding Putin assuming a more supportive role following the United Stat ...[
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. He gave the command during a surprise visit to Khmeimim Airbase in Syria’s Latakia province on Monday morning.
The Russian president was met by his Syrian counterp ...[
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Moscow baffled by American and French statements over US-led coalitionâs 'decisive role' in defeating Islamic State in Syria.
“Our Western partners have been saying in the recent days that it was not Russia but them, the coalition, who defeated Is ...[
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The Islamic State in Syrian and Iraq is officially defeated. The UN resolution which allowed other countries to fight ISIS within Syria and Iraq no longer applies. But the U.S. military, despite the lack of any legal basis, wants to continue its occupatio ...[
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“All of the IS [the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)] band groups on the territory of Syria were defeated,” claimed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia at the annual foreign military briefing in Moscow on Wednesday ...[
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In a rare divergence from Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the kingdom to end its blockade on Yemen, citing human rights.
The blockade in Yemen that has accompanied the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen’s war has restricte ...[
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Talal Barazi, the governor of both the city and province of Homs, said in an interview to Sputnik that around 20,000 people, or 500 families, returned home in 2016-2017 to Homs and its neighborhoods.
He explained that the Syrian civilians were coming back ...[
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As the most intense phase of fighting in Aleppo was unfolding in 2016, veteran journalist Stephen Kinzer took to the editorial pages of the Boston Globe to remind Americans that the media has created a fantasy land concerning Syria. Kinzer painted a pi ...[
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China is set to provide Syria with some 16 million dollars worth of humanitarian aid under cooperation agreements with the Damascus government.
On Sunday, the Chinese Embassy and the Syrian Planning and International Cooperation Commission (ICC) signed tw ...[
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