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IS at Weakest Point Since Start of Bombing Campaign, US Says
Efforts to squeeze the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria have put the self-declared caliphate on shaky ground, leaving the terror group in perhaps its most vulnerable state since the start of the U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S. officials. For months, U.S. military officials have been touting IS's territorial...
The truth behind Russia’s continuing war in Syria
All the signs are that as the partial truce in Syria fails and the peace talks falter, the Russian military and its Syrian allies are gearing up for a new offensive in and around Aleppo. Last week, the Pentagon said forces loyal to the Syrian government were beginning "to mass and concentrate combat power around...
Eleven bodies found at Cape Verde barracks
Police in the Cape Verde islands off northwest Africa say they have found the bodies of 11 people, including eight soldiers, at a military barracks. The authorities say they believe a disgruntled missing soldier was behind the killings. A government statement said the deaths were not an attempted coup or connected to the drugs...
What Will New US Forces Do in Syria?
The additional 250 U.S. special operations troops heading to Syria in the coming days will be a "force multiplier," meeting with local fighters and providing expertise to Syrians willing to take on Islamic State, according to the Pentagon. "This is as much about introductions and connections and seeing...
WAR ON ISIS: Obama marches extra troops into Syria in bid to WIPE OUT sick terror group
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is set to put more American boots on the ground in Syria in a bid to wipe out Islamic State. He is set to announce the decision to send 250 more troops into the war torn country to support local forces, a state official has revealed. The decision comes amid growing hopes that the so-called caliphate, also...
Obama dismisses N Korea proposal to ‘halt’ nuclear tests
US President Barack Obama has dismissed North Korea's proposal to suspend nuclear tests if the US ends its annual military exercises with the South. On Sunday Mr Obama told reporters that the US did not take such a proposal seriously and that Pyongyang would "have to do better than that". The North's foreign...
Kurdish PKK warns Turkey of long fight for freedom
The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has told the BBC that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was "escalating this war". "The Kurds will defend themselves to the...
Syria Kurds, regime officials to press talks after deadly clashes in Qamishlo
Syrian regime officials and Kurdish representatives were to meet Saturday for a second day of talks on ending deadly clashes in the northeastern Kurdish city of Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan, a senior security source said. A truce agreed on Friday held through the night, an AFP correspondent reported, and no gunfire was heard in...
Syrian government strikes on two rebel-held areas kill 23: monitor
Syrian warplanes bombed the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus and parts of Aleppo in the north on Saturday, killing 23 people, with the death toll likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mediators have struggled to get combatants in Syria's five-year-old war to honour a Feb. 27 cessation of...
NUCLEAR WARNING: Putin tests vehicle that can BLAST past missile defences & fire NUKES
RUSSIA has sent a chilling warning to the world by testing a new “hypersonic glide vehicle” that can blast past missile defences a fire nuclear warheads at its enemies. State media Russia Today claims the new technology will make it impossible its enemies’ defences to calculate the warhead’s trajectory...
Cold War Two? Furious Moscow warns the US after destroyer sails close to Russian border
KREMLIN officials have accused the US of intimidation after an American missile destroyer sailed close to the Russian border as tensions between the superpowers reach boiling point. Furious Moscow envoy Alexander Grushko used a NATO meeting to warn that Moscow will use “all necessary measures” against the US...
New rules allow more civilian casualties in air war against ISIL
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s fight against the Islamic State has grown increasingly aggressive since late fall and includes higher levels of allowable civilian casualties in the bombing campaign to target militants and their cash supplies, according to interviews with military officials and Pentagon data. Since last...