Syrian government troops supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed a leading unit of the Jabhat Fatah Al-Sham group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, in Aleppo, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said in statement Tuesday, according to Sputnik news agency. According to the statement, the Syrian government troops ...
Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake the town of Sherqat from the ISIL Takfiri group which has controlled it for more than two years, military sources said. The town lies on the west bank of the Tigris river 260 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Baghdad and around ...