Backed by Russian air power and allied militiamen on the ground, Syrian troops have recaptured entire cities from rebels and ISIS extremists in the past year, including the key cities of Aleppo, Homs and Palmyra. Yet for the past three years, President Bashar Assad's forces have been unable...

(Zaman Al Wasl) A commander in Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham revealed the terms of the five-town agreement after they were undeclared for some time. The commander indicated that the agreement includes five areas, not the previously known four, including Madaya, al-Zabadani, Yarmouk camp,...

( Washington Post )- Yesterday, the United States dropped the “mother of all bombs” on a network of Islamic State caves and tunnels in Afghanistan. The military said its spectacular use of force was necessary to destroy the underground terror hideout (though it's not clear that the MOAB was...

The oil market is rebalancing in the short term, and demand will continue to grow in the long term, Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser said at the Columbia University Energy Summit on Friday. In the short term, the oil market has a surplus, but Nasser said that supplies are falling...