The United States underestimated the rise of the Islamic State now running amok in Iraq and Syria while overrating the Iraqi military's ability to fight the extremist group, President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview to be aired on Sunday night.
For weeks Syrian officials have slammed U.S. plans to strike the Islamic State (IS) militant group on its soil, saying the move violates it sovereignty. But some analysts say Damascus has toned down its fiery rhetoric and now even tacitly supports the airstrikes against the armed group that has been wreaking havoc on the region.
The United States and partner nations have begun striking Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, using a mix of fighters, bombers and Tomahawk missiles, the Pentagon said Monday night.
The chief of the joint UN- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission in Syria told the UN Security Council Thursday that 96 percent of Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed and only a dozen production facilities remain to be destroyed.
Islamic State (IS) militants killed more than 160 Syrian soldiers in Syria, according to online video footage published on Thursday, while U.S. President Barack Obama said his country has not developed a strategy in combating the Islamic group.
UN council demands immediate release of detained peacekeepers in Golan Heights
The United States is worried about a possible future attack from the Islamic State terror group, but it remains unclear just how much of a threat the radicals pose to the country.
The United States is worried about a possible future attack from the Islamic State terror group, but it remains unclear just how much of a threat the radicals pose to the country.
The ongoing Syria crisis, which began more than three years ago, shows no signs of abating, with infighting among rebel groups intensifying and the humanitarian situation worsening.
The United Nations- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Mission announced Monday that Syria has removed all of its declared chemical arsenal from its territory.
Most Norwegian radicals who traveled from Norway to Syria to fight in militant groups, are young men with little education and no job, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported on Wednesday, quoting a report by the Norwegian anti-terror agency PST.
A joint mission overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons program in Syria confirmed on Tuesday that the country has destroyed all its declared arsenal of a chemical called Isopropanol, a UN spokesman told reporter here
Approximately 80 percent of the chemical weapons materials have been shipped out of Syria or destroyed, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a regular news briefing held Monday.
The special coordinator overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria said on Wednesday that the end-of-June deadline for the total destruction of the program was still achievable.
Russia on Monday cautioned UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi not to take sides in the Syrian domestic conflict.
Moscow on Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict- torn Syria, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid.
Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday described the UN Security Council's draft resolution on Syria as "counterproductive" and the ideas proposed by Western partners as "absolutely one-sided and detached from reality."
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