senior official in the administration of President Donald Trump says the US will keep 400 troops Syria after the planned pullout, contradicting earlier statement putting the number at 200.. The official, told Reuters on Friday that Trump had been persuaded by advisers that..…
US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and his Turkish Hulusi Akar met Washington on Friday to discuss the creation of buffer zone Syria, after the subject was first cleared between Presidents Donald Trump and Tayyip Erdogan. ..…
Trump surprised U.S. lawmakers and international allies in December by announcing he intended to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. ... Trump on February 6 said he was close to declaring the total defeat of the IS 'caliphate' in Syria, but he has not yet made the..…
While civilian casualties caused by coalition forces have fallen off to near zero in Iraq since IS was largely routed in the country in late 2017, coalition bombing and shelling are still killing and wounding civilians in Syria. The UK-based monitor groups Airwars and Syrian Observatory for Human..…
What if American military action somehow succeeded in pushing the Iranian regime out of power, as the Trump administration wants? The result would be a civil war even worse than the catastrophic ones in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. . ..…
TEHRAN - The father of Hoda Muthana, Alabama woman who fled the country to join Islamic State Iraq and Syria, is suing Donald Trump administration seeking his daughter's return to US... ..…
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