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US-allied Kurdish commander warns of growing Daesh threat

Daesh is a growing threat to northeast Syria, and the group will again flourish unless immediate action is taken, the Kurdish-led region’s security chief said in the wake of last month’s deadly prison attack. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, said...

Azerbaijan says Armenia fired at military positions

Azerbaijani army positions have been subjected to fire by Armenian forces, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Starting from Wednesday evening, the Armenian armed forces units in the Yukhari Shorzha settlement of the Basarkechar region opened fired periodically at the...

Suicide attack thwarted in northwestern Afrin town

Four people have been caught in the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin, along with suicide vests and kilos of C4 explosives, Turkish police said on Wednesday. In a statement, the General Directorate of Security said that intelligence forces of the Syria Task Force in Afrin, working in...

British envoy heads to Moscow to try to ease Ukraine crisis

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat heads to Moscow on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions raised by Russia's military buildup near Ukraine, warning that an invasion would bring “massive consequences for all involved.” “Russia has a choice here. We strongly encourage them to...