© AFP Published time: 17 Aug, 2016 Several hundred vehicles containing 100 to 200 Islamic State fighters were given safe passage by US-based forces, out of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, after surrendering their weapons, according to defense officials. US Army Col. Carver, a spokesman for the US-led coalition fighters, told Pentagon reporters the…
A Tupolev Tu-22 M3 strategic bomber of the Russian Aerospace Force © Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / Sputnik Published time: 16 Aug, 2016 Russia’s long-range Tu-22M3 bombers delivered their first airstrikes on terrorist targets in Syria operating from an Iranian airbase. Moscow and Tehran cooperation in Syria is “strategic,” confirmed the head…
If you thought the cancer of terrorism was under control, you most certainly did not read, or hear about Balochistan. But then again why would you when the lives of faraway Balochs weigh little in the balance of Western politics? Quetta is no Paris! On August 8, 2016, a horrific suicide attack took place in Quetta,…
Islamic State’s top regional leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed by a US drone strike in a joint US-Afghan military operation in an eastern Afghan province, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan has claimed. “I can confirm that ISIS Khurasan leader Hafiz Saeed Khan along with his senior commanders and fighters died in a…
While it is impossible to know all the dirty deeds of America’s sprawling global empire, news that US ground forces are now fighting in Libya means that US troops are involved in at least four active wars: Afghanistan: A planned draw-down of troops in 2015 was curtailed by President Obama to leave more troops for…
© Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Published time: 10 Aug, 2016 Nearly 7,000 heavy armored terrorists have taken positions southeast of the key Syrian city of Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry says. The build-up comes as Moscow brokers a three-hour daily truce for the embattled city. “The most alarming situation has unfolded in the…
