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“Despite concerted efforts to stem the flow, we have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists,” the report determined.

US, Russian defense officials exchanged ideas during a video conference on deconfliction efforts earlier on Thursday, a day after Moscow launched its first airstrikes on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria, Russia-based Sputnik News reported. “I...

Russia carried out a third day of air strikes Friday in Syria, saying it targeted Islamic State jihadists, as Russian President Vladimir Putin faced increased worldwide criticism over his military campaign.

Russian news agencies cited Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.

The Russians had told their American counterparts that their efforts would be directed against ISIS, and that, apparently, was good enough.

Two Russian air strikes in Syria on Thursday hit a training camp operated by rebel group that received military training from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, its commander said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the 70th General Debate with a speech in which he called for the situation in Syria to be referred to the worldwide Criminal Court and said that five countries – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey and the United States – are key...

While the USA and Russian Federation clash over Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin airstrikes in Syria, representatives from Iraqi Kurdistan called on the two world powers to stop bickering and align in their support for the group that both Washington and Moscow admit has...

The exact death toll from clashes in Silvan, a town in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakir province, was not immediately clear.

‘American returnees are not the only threat to the United States, ‘ it said.

Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, said “there is a lot of square miles in Syria“, so pilots accidentally encountering each other in the air is possible, but not likely.

US officials said Wednesday that Russian airstrikes near Homs, Syria, appear to be targeting U.S.-backed moderates and other Islamist rebel groups, instead of Islamic State fighters, who are not known to be in that region.

Russia’s defense ministry says its air force carried out around 20 missions targeting Islamic State militants in Syria on Wednesday and destroyed eight positions belonging to the extremists, including a command center.

Emphasising the importance of the visit, Netanyahu took along with him the chief of Israel’s armed forces and the general in charge of Israeli military intelligence.

Meanwhile, France said it was “curious” that Russian airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday had not targeted ISIS militants and a diplomatic source added that Moscow’s action appeared aimed at supporting President Bashar al-Assad against other opposition groups in the...