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shows the Mosul Dam on the Tigris River, around 50 kilometres north of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The risk of Iraq’s largest dam collapsing and unleashing a huge wave onto Mosul is affecting plans to retake the city from jihadists, an adviser to the premier’s office said on February 10, 2016. / AFP


Opinion: Syria – Retrieving Land is Not Victory

Opinion: Syria – Retrieving Land is Not Victory

by | Feb 10, 2016 | Opinion

Talk in Syria right now focusses on the areas that the Assad regime has retrieved with Russian aerial support and that of fighters from Shiite militias on the ground, under Iranian leadership. Have the Russians succeeded? Has Assad broken the ring altogether? Does...