A senior Iranian military official welcomed Thursday the “strong decline” of the United States, during celebrations marking the start of the 1979 US embassy siege. “America is no longer number one and the first power of the world,” deputy Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami told thousands gathered outside the former ...
An alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arabs will lead the assault on the ISIL group’s stronghold of Raqa, but rejects any Turkish role, its spokesman said Thursday. “We will see a campaign led by the Syrian Democratic Forces to liberate Raqa city,” SDF spokesman Talal Sello said. Raqa will be ...
