US officials said President Donald Trump has been persuaded not to pull the military out of Syria immediately, despite his declaration last week that the US would “be coming out of Syria very soon”. Advisers reportedly convinced him that it “could risk a resurgence” by the Takfiri ISIL group. The ...
Illegal oil trade channels exploited by terrorists in Syria have been almost completely severed, however, the latter continue to receive sufficient funding and arms supplies from abroad, Ilya Rogachev, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s new challenges and threats department, told Sputnik. “Hydrocarbons smuggling as one of the main ...
