After nearly a decade of warfare, the very identify Syria appears synonymous with battle and destruction. But a brief video filmed at a Christmas market in Damascus reveals that peace – and pleasure – are making a comeback. ...

Unreconstructed neocon Paul Wolfowitz has slammed President Donald Trump for ‘abandoning’ the Kurds, insisting the US will want them subsequent time there’s a battle in Syria. Trump’s blunder, then, is pondering wars can “finish.” ...

The withdrawal of American troops from Syria has set the stage for a return of Islamic State, claims a brand new Pentagon report. The report aligns the Pentagon with war-hungry lawmakers who opposed the withdrawal from the outset. ...

1000's of tons of Russian grain can be delivered to Syria subsequent yr, in response to the top of the Crimean area Yuri Gotsanyuk. Exports from the Russia's Black Sea peninsula to the war-ravaged nation began two years in the past. ...

Turkey has captured a spouse of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Wednesday, greater than every week after the previous Islamic State chief killed himself throughout a raid by U.S. particular forces. "The USA stated Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They began a communication marketing campaign about ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, who again within the good outdated Obama administration days lobbied for the arming of ‘average’ rebels in Syria, has slammed Trump for downgrading the US navy to an oilfield occupation pressure. ...

Tehran and Damascus have signed a preliminary deal on rebuilding Syria’s energy grid at a significant electrical energy expo, which by pure coincidence befell in Iran simply as Washington sanctioned its building sector. ...

Kurdish YPG forces have nonetheless not totally withdrawn from a strip of land in northeast Syria from which Ankara says they need to go away, in response to Turkey’s protection minister. Hulusi Akar’s assertion got here hours earlier than a deadline for his or her elimination expires, Reuters stated. Underneath ...

RUSH: , Trump didn't inform any Democrats — and you understand what’s fascinating, of us? If I'll add. There are 4 reporters — and I don’t keep in mind all their names. Maggie Haberman is one from the New York Instances, and there’s one other one on the New York ...

US President Donald Trump has introduced that Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed throughout a US navy raid in northwest Syria, confirming an avalanche of rumors on the terrorist’s dying. ...