French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL group could take “months”. “It could be a long battle, it’s not a blitzkrieg… It’s a lengthy affair (lasting) several weeks, maybe months,” he told reporters in Paris a day ...
The Russian and Syrian air forces halted strikes in Aleppo on Tuesday for a 48-hour humanitarian pause, Russia’s defense minister announced. The ceasefire comes ahead of schedule. The Russian military said earlier that it would halt airstrikes on Thursday, but on Tuesday Sergey Shoigu announced that the ceasefire would be ...
