Ukrainian forces shoot down about 80 percent of Russian drones throughout Kherson, but remain vulnerable to airstrikes and missiles, the spokesperson of Ukrainian forces in the province said earlier this week.
The Governor of Syria’s coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday blamed loyalists of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime for the recent violence that erupted in Alawite-majority regions west of the country, rejecting claims that the violence was sectarian.
The higher education minister of Syria’s transitional government on Tuesday expressed openness towards expanding Kurdish studies in universities and stressed the importance of inclusivity in building the country’s education system.
Syrian security forces have seized the keys to Iraq’s late president Jalal Talabani’s apartment in Damascus, believing that it was gifted to him by the recently-toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an Iraqi official said on Monday.
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that the Kurds in Syria are in a position to help the US gauge the current stances of Syria’s de facto ruling group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which has previously been designated as a terrorist organization.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former colonel in the British army and security expert on chemical biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons, discusses potential targets in Iran for Israel
