By: Middle East Affairs On Wednesday, the RIA news agency reported: "Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that any Russian military action in Syria tried to minimise civilian casualties and was precisely targeted." According to a Syrian rebel and a war monitor, Russia resumed air strikes against insurgents in the rebel-held
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Air strikes killed dozens of people, including children, in Yemen’s Saada
By: Middle East Affairs ADEN - On Thursday, Yemeni medical sources and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that air strikes killed many individuals, including youngsters, in Yemen's Saada. "One assault hit a bus driving kids in Dahyan market, in northern Saada, including hospitals there got many dead and
Assad’s forces escalate their attacks in the southwest
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces pounded rebel-held areas of the southwest with artillery on Thursday, in a steady escalation by President Bashar al-Assad who has vowed to win back the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12,500 civilians had fled the
Syria and Iraq announce 22 dead, 12 injured by U.S. strike
(AFP) BEIRUT: Iraqi Shiite forces and Syria accused Monday the United States of hitting their troops inside Syria with an airstrike, a charge the US denied but which ratcheted up tensions in the area nonetheless. Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, the units’ umbrella organization, said in a statement that US aircraft
Russian envoy ‘can’t imagine’ a face-off with Israel
By Middle East Affairs The Russian ambassador to Israel said Wednesday he did not believe there would be a confrontation between Israel and Russia over Syria, Reuters reported. Russia joined Syria's civil war in 2015 in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Since then, the ally has remained mostly neutral during occasional Israeli air