Middle East • Page 253 of 286 • The Defense Post

May- 2018 -

1 May

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Signaling strength: Russia’s real Syria success is electronic warfare against the US

Syria has become Russia's “ultimate testing ground” for weapons, and Russian forces have been particularly successful at using electronic warfare technology to interfere with Coalition-led operations.

1 May

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in tears as they look at the son of one of their colleagues, Akbar Zavar Jannati, who was killed in an airstrike in Syria

Neil Hauer

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Russia’s dangerous disregard to the growing Iran-Israel war in Syria

Neil Hauer investigates Russia’s contribution to de-escalating tensions between Iran and Israel in Syria, which appears negligible at best, and actively antagonistic at worst

Apr- 2018 -

29 April

Fergus Kelly

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SDF recaptures 4 Deir Ezzor villages earlier taken by pro-regime forces

The U.S.-led Coalition-backed SDF recaptured four villages on the east bank of the Euphrates river to the north of Deir Ezzor city taken earlier by pro-Syrian government forces.

29 April

Debris and ammunition in Old City Mosul, Iraq

Staff Writer With AFP

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Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining ISIS

Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining ISIS, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women

29 April

Fergus Kelly

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US approves $911 million sale to Bahrain of 12 AH-1Z attack helicopters

The U.S. State Department approved the sale to Bahrain of 12 Bell AH-1Z attack helicopters along with missiles, rockets, guns and other equipment at an estimated cost fo $911.4 million

28 April

Staff Writer With AFP

Airstrike in Yemen kills dozens of Houthi rebels including commanders

An air strike on Yemen's capital Sana'a by a Saudi-led military coalition has killed dozens of Houthi rebels including at least two commanders, Saudi television reported.

27 April

Zahra, whose husband was an ISIS fighter, sits in a camp for internally displaced people in Iraq

Joanne Stocker

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Iraq reduces death sentence of German woman who joined ISIS

The death sentence of a German woman who was found guilty of joining Islamic State with her two daughters has been commuted to life in an Iraqi prison.

26 April

Fergus Kelly

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French special forces have ‘reinforced’ US troops in Syria, Mattis says

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that French special forces arrived in Syria to help boost US-led efforts, and that a "re-energized effort" in southeast Syria would shortly begin

25 April

Opinion Editor

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The UN Security Council is failing humanity. Here’s what to do about it

The inherently politicized nature of the contemporary standards for authorizing force at the UN Security Council has robbed Syrians of their right to protection.

24 April