(Translation by Dani Murad) Sniping has been a major war tool in the Syrian war since the very beginning, with professional regime snipers from Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah, terrorizing rebel forces and civilians alike. In this context, Zaman...
When John Maguire was a CIA officer in Beirut in the late 1980s during that country’s bloody civil war, he spent weeks living in safe houses far from the U.S. Embassy, dodging militants who wanted to kidnap and kill Americans. In Iraq in 2014, by contrast, CIA officers have...
(Al Arabiya News)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “never” thought about resigning or making concessions, especially to the foreign-based opposition, former U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper in an interview published on...
FIFA has charged Luis Suarez with biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in the teams' World Cup match, a process that could lead to the Uruguay player being banned from international competition for up to two years. Football's governing body said on Wednesday that...
