China has canceled a security meeting with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis that had been planned for October, a senior US official said on Sunday, days after a top Chinese official said there was no reason to panic over tensions between the countries. The official, who is involved in ...
The US has been boosting its military presence in the region and, according to an SDF spokesperson, the base is being used in an offensive against the remaining ISIL militants in eastern Syria. Xelil Şirvan, a commander of a group of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, told Sputnik that a US military base ...