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Assad appoints notorious aide as military head of Deir Ezzor

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has appointed his most notorious aide as the head of security and military committee in eastern Deir Ezzor province as regime army wages deadly aerial and ground campaign on the ISIS-held areas that left 115 people killed this week, Iran-run news feeds...

Islamic State turned on dissenters as Raqqa assault neared

Islamic State's leaders used spies to root out suspected enemies in their ranks in the countdown to this month's U.S.-led attack on their de-facto capital Raqqa, the wives of three Tunisian fighters who fled the Syrian town said. They described how the leaders had fled Raqqa as pressure...

Former Syrian defense minister Tlass dies in Paris

Syria’s former defense minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris Tuesday, his son Firas said. He was 85. Tlass, whose other son Manaf was among the most high-profile regime officials to defect during the early days of...

Europe's once positive world view of US slips under Trump

Slightly more Europeans now view the United States unfavorably under President Donald Trump than favorably, according to a survey of public attitudes in three dozen countries that comes as Trump prepares for a return visit to the continent early next month. The Pew Research Center survey...