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Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that only between 100 and 120 Syrian fighters were in training.

“There is now no Iranian initiative, but rather there are ideas, or principles, for an Iranian initiative which are based principally on the subject of Syria’s sovereignty… and are based on fighting terrorism“, Assad said.

Coalition officials have said they aim to move north to retake Sana’a from the Houthis, who are backed by former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

An army convoy was bombed Sunday, killing 16 soldiers and on Tuesday, 14 police officers lost their lives in an attack on their minibus.

More than 100 police and soldiers have been killed, along with hundreds of militants, in renewed conflict since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012.

The protests which culminated in the attacks were organised after a bomb killed 14 police officers.

They were taken to processing centers before they were allowed to leave Hungary.

The Kurds in Turkey suffered decades of official discrimination and denial of their culture’s existence.

Russian Federation has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the centre of a military build-up in Syria, according to two United States officials.

The BBC reports the strikes hit a bottling plant Sunday morning and that most of the dead were civilians.

Forty-five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military, 10 from Saudi Arabia and five from Bahrain have been killed while taking part in a military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in the deadliest day for Gulf forces since the conflict began.

The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

One guardsman was reported on Monday as having been killed in the unrest and almost 90 wounded.

According to Bahrain, reportedly in the same blast, five of its troops had lost their lives on Friday.

China hosted a spectacular display of its armed forces Thursday at the parade, which celebrated the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, a war that cost tens of millions of Chinese lives.