Trump’s Landmark Decision to Join Forces with Russia – First in Syria
The decision US President Donald Trump reached Tuesday, Jan. 24, amid the policy-making blizzard of his first week in office,
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Putin Picks up Trump’s Ball, Pushes Iran out of Syria at Astana Conference
The two-day Syria peace conference at Astana, Kazakhstan brought no new tidings to justify its title, but did make rapid
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Plane crash ups Syria-tied Russian deaths to 310
Notwithstanding the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Russian Tu-154 air crash into the Black Sea minutes after its takeoff for Syria
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Putin Heaps First Obstacle for Trump in the Middle East
Vladimir Putin began flexing a muscle for testing US President-elect Donald Trump when he invited the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad
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Russian role in Aleppo’s fall impacts US politics
Aleppo’s fall to the Assad regime with the surrender Thursday, Dec. 15, of the Syrian rebel forces locked in a
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Trump Primed for Iran: Swallow Tough Nuclear Terms, Get out of Iraq and Syria
First insights obtained exclusively by DEBKA Weekly into US President-elect Donald Trump‘s backroom foreign policy deliberations indicate that Iran is
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Russia flies Chechen commandos to Syria
Moscow started to deploy Chechen special operations forces units to Syria this week, debkafile’s military sources reveal. The troops come
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Egyptian pilots flying Russian choppers in Syria
Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi’s secret decision to intervene militarily in the Syrian war on the side of the Syrian President
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Trump Transition Team Bids for Obama’s Hands-off in Syria and Iraq
Vice President elect Mike Pence, as leader of the Trump transition team asked White House chief of staff Denis McDonough
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Two Hizballah brigades deployed to Aleppo
Hizballah this week transferred two brigades of some 5,000 fighters to the Aleppo front to bolster the Assad regime’s concentrated
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