Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: RAQQA
Amnesty: Civilians under greater threat as Raqqa fight intensifies
:: Amnesty International said on Thursday a US-led coalition campaign to oust ISIS from Syria’s Raqqa had killed hundreds of civilians, and those remaining face greater risk as the fight intensifies in its final stages. The rights group also said
Coalition: 250 US-led strikes in, around Raqqa in past week
:: At least 250 US-led air strikes have pounded the Syrian city of Raqa and surrounding territory in the past week, the coalition fighting ISIS group said. Coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told AFP that the air raids targeted the
US-led strikes kill 17 in Syria’s Raqqa: Monitor
:: US-led coalition air strikes on ISIS’s remaining territory in Syria’s Raqqa city killed 17 civilians on Wednesday, including children, a monitor said. The coalition is providing air support in the form of heavy air strikes for the Syrian Democratic
US-backed Syria forces battle ISIS in Raqqa old city
:: US-backed fighters fought pitched battles Sunday with ISIS extremists inside their Syria bastion Raqqa, an AFP correspondent said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Arab-Kurd alliance, first entered Raqqa two months ago and have since captured more than half of
Long wait for captive Yazidis’ return spent rebuilding shrine in Iraq’s Bashiqa
:: Yazidi men and boys in the town of Bashiqa north east of Mosul are rebuilding a shrine destroyed by ISIS as they wait for the return of women from their community taken captive years ago by the extremists. They
US-led coalition strikes kill 29 civilians in Syria: Monitor
:: Airstrikes by a US-led coalition fighting ISIS killed at least 29 civilians including 14 children in 24 hours in the extremists’ Syrian capital of Raqqa, a war monitor said late on Tuesday. The dead included a family of 14
2,000 ISIS militants still in Syria’s Raqqa and ‘they will likely die there’
:: The Kurdish-Syrian alliance battling to recapture Raqqa from ISIS has now seized about 45 percent of the militants’ Syria stronghold, a top US official said Friday. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF) began a campaign to capture Raqqa
US-backed Syria force advances in south of ISIS bastion Raqqa
:: US-backed forces battling to oust ISIS from its Syrian bastion Raqqa have advanced in the city’s south, seizing a new neighborhood, a spokesman and monitor said Tuesday. The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF) began a campaign to capture
Food access in Raqqa at ‘critical turning point,’ say aid groups
:: Food access in Syria’s battle-torn Raqqa is now at “a critical turning point,” aid organizations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles. Raqqa has been gripped by fierce fighting for nearly two months
Syrian army, allies advance against ISIS east of Raqqa
:: Syrian government forces and their allies have recaptured territory from ISIS in countryside southeast of its stronghold Raqqa after air strikes in the area, a pro-Damascus military media unit and war monitors reported. The advances towards the provincial boundary
Syrian army takes more oil fields from ISIS in Raqqa and eastern desert
:: The Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air strikes seized a string of oil wells in southwest Raqqa province on Saturday, as retreating ISIS militants battle to defend their remaining territory in the country. State-owned Ikhbariyah television quoted a
US military advisors are operating in Raqqa
:: US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqqa, ISIS group’s last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday. The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an “advise, assist and accompany” role
US troops inside Raqqa, ISIS Syria stronghold: Official
:: US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqqa, ISIS’s last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday. The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an “advise, assist and accompany” role to
US-led strikes killed 224 civilians since allies entered Raqqa
:: US-led coalition air strikes have killed at least 224 civilians since the Syrian forces it backs entered ISIS group bastion Raqqa a month ago, a monitor said on Thursday. But the coalition pushed back against the report, saying its
Syrian Democratic Forces breach Raqqa’s Old City in ISIS fight
:: US-backed forces in Syria have breached the wall surrounding the Old City of Raqqa as they try to retake the city from ISIS, the US Central Command said Monday night. “Coalition forces supported the SDF advance into the most
US-backed forces launch new attack on ISIS in Raqqa
:: US-backed fighters have launched a renewed attack on ISIS group militants inside their Syrian bastion Raqqa, seeking to retake a key eastern neighborhood, a monitor said on Saturday. “The Syrian Democratic Forces started a counter-offensive on Friday night to
Hundreds flee Mosul as Iraqi forces squeeze extremists
:: Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul’s Old City on Friday as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of ISIS resistance, and the UN warned that the “intense and concentrated” fighting put innocent lives in even greater danger. People climbed
ISIS retakes Raqqa district from Syrian Democratic Forces: monitor
:: ISIS militants recaptured an eastern district of their Syrian bastion Raqqa on Friday, a monitor said, rolling back the advance of US-backed fighters. “ISIS fully retook al-Senaa, which was the most important neighborhood taken by the Syrian Democratic Forces,”
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