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U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions during a joint news conference with Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 16, 2019. The PKK terror group is much worse than Daesh and probably constitutes a bigger terrorist threat, U.S. President Donald Trump said late Wednesday during a […]

M Aleppo, Hasaka, SANA-The Syrian Arab army on Wednesday entered the border city of Ayn al-Arab in north-Eastern countryside of Aleppo. SANA reporter in Aleppo said that units of the army entered Ayn al-Arab in the farthest north-eastern countryside of Aleppo. Meanwhile, the families welcomed the army. Earlier, units of Army expanded their deployment in […]

AFP Photo Negotiators from the United Kingdom and the European Union struck a Brexit divorce deal Thursday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said. “Where there is a will, there is a deal — we have one! It’s a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the U.K. and it is testament to our commitment […]

The al-Shabab militant group has sown fear and terror in Eastern Africa for more than a decade. The terrorist group is fighting to oust the Somali government and establish a society based on a rigid interpretation of Islamic Shariah law. Its original leadership was affiliated with al-Qaeda. Although based in Somalia, al-Shabab frequently launches terror […]

Heavy fighting continues as Turkey presses on with its military operation, now in its eighth day, against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the military action aims to remove the Kurdish-led forces from the border area and create a “safe zone” to which millions of Syrian refugees can be returned. The move came after the United States announced […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiles while riding a white horse on Mount Paektu, the Korean Peninsula’s highest peak, in footage released Wednesday by the North’s KCNA. Yonhap As nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the United States remain in a stalemate after no “substantial outcome” from their recent encounter in Sweden, the lack of […]

AA Photo Turkey is not fighting against Syrians and will not sit at the negotiating table with terrorists, despite efforts by some countries to act as mediators, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday. “Turkey is not fighting against Syrians, it is fighting with Syrians against oppressors,” Erdoğan told a group meeting of the Justice and […]

Hasaka, Raqqa, SANA- Forces of the Turkish occupation and their mercenaries continued their offensive on the Syrian territories through targeting a number of villages and towns in the northern countryside of Hasaka and Raqqa with artillery and warplanes causing the displacement of citizens who fled the brutality of the Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries […]

Syrian National Army troops raising the Syrian flag in Tal Abyad after the city’s liberation from YPG terrorists (AA Photo) Turkey will continue its anti-terror operation in northern Syria until all goals have been achieved, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday. Speaking at the Turkic Council Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, Erdoğan said Turkey aims to […]

President Donald Trump | Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing “powerful” sanctions against Turkey for its incursion into northeast Syria. “The United States will aggressively use economic sanctions to target those who enable, facilitate, and finance these heinous acts in Syria,” Trump said in a statement. “I am […]