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- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as he addresses 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Manama ...

Russia, which has two key military bases in Syria, is a staunch ally of Assad and had intervened in Syria’s 13-year civil ... the war and Kyiv should do so from a position of strength.

HTS is the single most powerful rebel faction in Syria, with an estimated troop strength of 30,000 ... For most of the Syrian civil war, the SDF has had a tacit non-aggression pact with the ...

On Dec. 16, 1864, what is now known as Minnesota’s “bloodiest” day in the Civil War, took place. This was the taking of Shy’s Hill in the Battle of Nashville, where 302 Minnesota soldiers were killed, ...

A long-time ally of the Assad regime, Russia began providing direct military support to Assad in 2015, including airstrikes and ground troops ... in the civil war, it has carried out airstrikes ...

Regime troops have collapsed and melted away ... said Saturday that the US is “not going to dive into” the civil war in Syria but that it will “take steps” to prevent any potential ...

“North Korean troops will likely have had limited exposure to some of the capabilities and tactics, techniques and procedures that have evolved during the war in Ukraine,” Hardie said.

North Korean troops sent to Russia have not yet joined ... The Russian military has for most of the war outgunned Kyiv’s army, and still does in many ways. But the western officials now say ...

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov clashed with Western leaders before storming out of the EU security meeting, as the Kremlin faced mounting criticism over its prolonged war in Ukraine.

Dec 7 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Saturday that it struck a Hezbollah fighter in southern Lebanon who posed a threat to its troops, adding it was operating within ceasefire agreements ...