The town of Abu Kamal in the Deir Ezzor province had been the last major ISIL stronghold in Syria until it was liberated by the government forces with Russia’s aerial assistance last week. “On November 17, six Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, which took off from an airfield in Russia, having flown ...
Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has said that there is currently an anti-Lebanon campaign in the Middle East, aimed at “intimidating” his country and forcing it to give up a joint gas project with Russia. Beirut has faced certain difficulties in the course of its own efforts to “stabilize the ...