The main result of Russia’s operation in Syria is that ISIL and Al-Nusra Front terrorists have been kept out of Damascus, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. Russian airstrikes on radical extremists in Syria over the past year have ensured that “neither ISIL, nor Al-Qaeda nor the Nusra Front are now ...
Without more donor support the emergency caused by Boko Haram will become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a top UN official said Friday, as a massive appeal remained just a quarter funded. United Nations assistant secretary general Toby Lanzer said the suffering in northeast Nigeria and surrounding areas was the ...