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By Omar Ashour - Apr 13,2017
Last week, US President Donald Trump authorised a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from which a chemical attack was launched by Bashar Assad’s regime.That strike marked a significant departure from former president Barack Obama’s widely discredited policy towards
By Omar Ashour - Feb 21,2017
As the civil war in Syria nears the six-year mark, the mounting death toll and constantly shifting military landscape is making a mockery of the diplomatic track.With yet another round of talks on the horizon — new United Nations-led discussions scheduled to begin Monday in Genev
By Omar Ashour - Nov 30,2015
Two recent tragedies — the downing of a Russian civilian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula and the terrorist massacre in Paris two weeks later — seemed to give Russia and the West something to agree upon: Daesh must go.But a closer look at Russia’s military operations in Syria —


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