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In 2002, Congress passed an Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq. In 2020, the AUMF was cited by the Trump administration to justify killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The White House on Monday announced its support for repealing the law. Sign up for the 10 Things in Politics…

Lin left China last season intending to win a new NBA contract. Instead, a season in the G-League followed for the Santa Cruz Warriors. Lin was the fourth-highest point scorer in the league, leading the Warriors to a second-place regular-season finish and semifinal appearance, but he was never called up…

Turkey's military hit targets in the northern Syrian town of Tel Rifat in response to artillery attacks that killed 14 people and wounded several others in nearby Afrin, state-run Anadolu agency said on Sunday. Ankara blamed Saturday's attacks, including on a hospital, on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. The Syrian…

There have been two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin. At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources said. The first attack struck a residential area, while the…

Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 12 Apr 2021 9:40PM · Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says its investigation ‘concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib on February 4, 2018". – EPA pic, April 12, 2021. THE Syrian regime’s air…

MISSOURI, USA/ BEIRUT: Syria has signed a four-year oil and gas exploration deal with a Russian company in Mediterranean waters that Lebanon claims as its own. The two blocks to be explored under the new contract overlap with Lebanese maritime areas for energy exploration along the country’s northern border. Yet…

Al-Monitor, Al-Monitor April 10, 2021 A US-Russia showdown over humanitarian border crossings stymies the UN peace process after 10 years of misery. Read Full Article » Related Topics: Syria Comment Show comments Hide Comments Read More

In March, General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., an Alabama-born marine who commands U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, took a whirlwind tour of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Lebanon—America’s most volatile theatre of operations. Some legs of the trip were made on a C-17, a cavernous aircraft that…

CAIRO: Egypt and Jordan have called for renewed international efforts to break the deadlock in peace efforts between Palestine and Israel. The demands came as a result of a phone meeting on developments in Jerusalem between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs…

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