They overran a military post in Anbar Province seizing m16s and heavy machine guns and armored vehicles. The video shows several dead iraqi soldiers with one of the bodies burp bodyies burning. Meanwhile, ash carter arrived in afghanistan. You see the pictures, and he talked about the plan to retake mosul, and a possible timetable for this. That is one that will be iraqi led, and the u. S. Supported and its important that it be launched at a time when it can succeed, and so i think the important thing is that it will get done when it gets done successfully and i even if i knew exactly what that was going to be i would not tell you. Cnn Senior Correspondent is in iraq. Tell us what you know. Reporter pentagon Officials Say the United States is planning for an iraqi led offensive in late april or may to drive isis out of mosul, but a video posted on facebook showing one battle about a hundred kilometers northwest of baghdad indicates that the iraqi army is still on the back foot when it
An "F-Bomb" hurled by a Syrian activist struck the UN Security Council in a bid to explode the myth of its mighty prowess in enforcing peace around the world.Omar Alshogre, who was invited to speak at the Council meeting on Syria on .
The Syria Emergency Task Force will speak at Seton Hall University. Speakers include Mouaz Moustafa, Ambassador Stephen Rapp, Omar Alshogre, and Qutaiba Idlibi. Deborah Amos will moderate.
Among those facing that fate are siblings Dania, 22, and Hussam, 20, who have been living in Denmark since 2015.
They made it to Europe after a dangerous journey out of Syria through Damascus, where they were stopped at checkpoints and had to bribe military officers. If we come back, we risk being killed because it is not safe to go back again, Dania told
The National. And then there is the insecurity about how a dictator-ruled country will react to citizens who have turned their backs on the country
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Dania, who has balanced a part-time job as a server, volunteering with the Danish Refugee Council and attending classes as a full-time pupil during her time in Denmark, is supposed to graduate from high school in June. Hussam would graduate next year.