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Syrian army soldiers patrol the area around the entrance of Aleppo’s Bani Zeid district on July 28, 2016. (Photos by AFP)

U.S.,Russian Consultations to Announce a “One-Week Truce” In Syria

by Michel Abu Najm, Nazeer Rida, Caroline Akoum | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Paris, Beirut: While U.N. Special Envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura seeks to hold a new round of intra-Syrian talks in Geneva at end of August, French sources said that Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was informed by his U.S. counterpart John Kerry that a team of...

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People try to put out a burning fuel truck after it was set ablaze during clashes between Houthis and fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz, May 25, 2015. Reuters

The Legitimacy Leaves Kuwait, the Houthi Stubbornness Threatens Peace

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh, Jeddah- The Yemeni delegation left yesterday Kuwait, where U.N.-sponsored peace talks were talking place, after rebels rejected a draft plan presented by U.N. Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed based on Resolution 2216. The Yemeni government delegation, which had...

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Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire a 122 MM artillery towards Islamic State fighters positions in Sirte, Libya (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

U.S. Launches Airstrikes against ISIS in Libya for the First Time

by Khalid Mahmoud | Aug 2, 2016 | World

Cairo – The United States Department of Defense announced on Monday the launching of the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Libya. The U.S. has launched airstrikes on the Islamic State stronghold in Sirte, Libya, the Pentagon said on Monday, in a major expansion of...