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But Libya's move to scrap its nuclear program also serves as a model of what North Korea fears will happen: its government was later overthrown by rebel forces supported by Western air strikes. Pyongyang regularly cites the fates of Saddam Hussein in Iraq -- whose government was overthrown in a ...

Pvt. Williams engaged in nearly a dozen battles before his capture by rebel forces five months later. He was held captive in five Confederate prisons, including the notorious Andersonville in Georgia, but was free to witness the Third Battle of Petersburg on April 2, 1865. He was discharged from service in ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:20 P.M.) – The rebel forces in southern Damascus have handed over to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) some of their positions in the southern part of Damascus, following a brief round of talks. According to an Al-Masdar field correspondent in Damascus, the rebels handed over some of ...

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BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 A.M.) – On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the Islamic State affiliate group Jaysh Khalid ibn al-Walid unleashed a powerful offensive on Syrian rebel forces in southwestern Daraa province. At first, ISIS made some considerable headway, capturing a number of towns ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:49 P.M.) – Syrian state media reports that a ceasefire agreement has just been reached between government forces and armed rebel groups in southern Damascus. According to the report, the ceasefire applies to Free Syrian Army-linked factions and other non-ISIS militant groups ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:35 P.M.) – Warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces are in the midst of a major operation over the skies of Idlib province, targeting rebel forces at multiple towns across the region. According to military-affiliated sources, the airstrikes have been ongoing since Tuesday morning ...

In summer of 2012, rebel forces were knocking on the doors of Damascus, half of Aleppo was lost to anti-regime forces and almost every major Syrian city (except those in western Syria) were either contested or under complete control of Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA). To make matters worse for ...

Map update: Syrian Army liquidates 85 percent of East Ghouta pocket and banishes three rebel force groupings in month-long offensive ... The Syrian Army 'Damascus Steel' offensive has seen the capitulation of three major rebel force groupings – represented by Faylaq al-Rahman, Ha'yat Tahrir al-Sham ...

The high-level meetings and ribbon-slicing that would be standard fare on most diplomatic visits take on special significance in the context of the Assad government's territorial gains over rebel forces. The victories make Assad look like a winner, and Oman could really use one of those. Amidst the chaos of ...

Sadiq follows and establishes contacts among the local rebel forces. Weeks of waiting and speculation follow before he learns the truth: his daughters were not brainwashed – they have defected of their own free will and have no plans to return. Ayan has, in fact, married an Islamic State fighter.

Consequently, the locals have staged an uprising against “the high-handedness of rebel forces controlled by the US” in Al-Mansour, a town 25km southwest of Raqqa. Raqqa, which was one of Syria's largest cities before the war, is now facing a “disastrous humanitarian situation” which affects some 95,000 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A spokesperson for the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said the fight against Turkish and allied rebel forces is ongoing in Afrin, with two Turkish soldiers killed, and six others injured in clashes on Wednesday. YPG Spokesperson Brusk Heseke told Kurdistan 24 that ...

The truce was called Thursday by rebel forces after a series of fierce government military attacks on an underground shelter which killed at least 37 people. According to the terms of the ceasefire, rebel forces agreed to evacuate the city of Harasta, surrendering the town in exchange for safe passage and ...

Andrew Jackson Smith against Confederates led by Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee and Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who were attempting to interdict Sherman's supply lines. The Rebel forces attacked on July 14, after the Yankees occupied an area near Tupelo, but were driven off with considerable losses.

During the conflict, Syrian President Bashar Assad has lost control of the majority of his country, with some parts under the control of rebel forces, some parts under the control of Kurdish forces, and from 2014 to 2017, much of the country under ISIS' control. ISIS held Deir Ezzor and the surrounding regions ...

Abu Ahmed is a senior officer in the 10,000-strong rebel force that, with Turkish backing and instigation, took control of Afrin on Sunday after a two-month battle. His name has been changed, along with others, to freely discuss their sensitive relations with their backers in Ankara. Amid the series of defeats at ...

It also boosted the morale of the 20,000-strong Syrian rebel force that is armed and financed by Turkey. But the newspaper said critics, even within the Syrian opposition, see the Turkish-backed rebels as nothing more than mercenaries. But those within the force praised Turkey's success in bringing military ...

A civil war rages in the galaxy, and Rebel forces struggle against the evil Galactic Empire, Luke and Obi-Wan enlist the aid of hotshot pilot, Han Solo (Harrison Ford). Joined by the quirky droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO, the unlikely team sets out to rescue Rebel leader Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and make ...

Turkish and Syrian rebel forces overtook the Syrian Kurdistan enclave of Afrin on Sunday where they declared full control following a nearly two-month long offensive against the People's Protection Units (YPG). Ankara, who launched its military incursion into Afrin on Jan. 20, claimed the operation was meant to secure its ...

The agencies also expressed concern about the 104,000 people who have been uprooted from their homes by the battle between Turkish-backed rebel forces and a Kurdish militia for the north-western border region of Afrin. A UN team that visited the nearby government-held town of Nubl on Monday found ...

Now those Russian-backed Syrian forces are closing in on the last strongholds of Western-backed rebel forces. Viewing that as a geopolitical and military victory over an illegal Western-led intervention, Russia is unlikely to pull out of Syria anytime soon. An emboldened Putin could position the resurgent ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 A.M.) – Video footage has been released by opposition sources showing the deployment of a large Turkish Army convoy – escorted by rebel forces – to the Jabal (Mount) Anak area near Anadan town, just north of Aleppo city in Syria. According to reports, the convoy was over one ...

The Syrian rebel forces, which have served as advance troops for the Turkish operation, seemed to have entered the city without a fight, after the Kurdish ... A unit of the rebel force, which comprises several groups that fight under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, posted video of its fighters strolling ...

INU - For months, while supplies have dwindled, and families have been forced to move underground, Ghouta's population has dealt with the results of a siege by the Syrian government forces under Assad. Now government forces have attacked Ghouta, and created a corridor that divides the rebel forces ...

... another Labour MP, Graham Jones, called on his party's leadership to rethink its critical stance toward Saudi military involvement in Yemen. Writing on the PoliticsHome website on Tuesday, the chair of the committee on arms export controls said: “No government in the world would accept a rebel force in ...

De Mistura briefed the Security Council about the humanitarian condition in Eastern Ghouta, said a diplomatic source, and underpinned necessity of responding to rebel forces' message to the UN and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to allow fighters of ISIS, Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda ...

'US aid ends up with extremists': Analysts alarmed over Pentagon's 60,000-strong Syrian rebel force. Published time: 7 Mar, 2018 15:26 Edited time: 7 Mar, 2018 15:36. Get short URL ...

The same organisation dominates the rebel forces in Aleppo, and its propaganda has worked very well. According to Western media, the city of Aleppo has not just been "destroyed"; it has been "annihilated". There has not only been a "massacre"; there has been a "genocide". Official sources have not been ...

President Assad's forces are advancing into the heart of eastern Ghouta after negotiating their first surrender deal from rebel forces in the area. The two-starred flag of the Syrian government was raised in the town square of Hammouriyeh, in the south of the rebel-controlled pocket, last night after a day of ...

AMMAN: Ankara-backed Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish forces in western Afrin on Tuesday, less than one day after taking full control of the entire border region between the isolated canton and Turkey. “Intense” fighting between Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters and the Kurdish People's Protection Units ...

CAIRO – A Syrian rebel militia announced on Monday it had struck an agreement with Russia to evacuate wounded people from the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, which has been heavily bombed by government forces for nearly a month. Jaysh al-Islam said in a post ...

Syrian government forces are advancing in a corner of Eastern Ghouta, six days after a UN-ordered ceasefire failed to stop the bloodshed in the besieged rebel district. Both an army commander and war monitor said on Friday that fresh ground had been seized from rebel forces in an aerial and ground ...

It is worth noting that in the days leading up to Monday, sources talked of a large mobilization of rebel forces at various towns and villages along the provincial border region linking northern Hama and southern Idlib. Beyond retaliating to insurgent artillery fire against government-held areas of northern ...