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December 3, 2024

Iran-backed militants enter Syria to bolster Bashar al-Assad’s regime – after Syrian rebels ‘seize Aleppo’

Militias crossed into the war-torn country from neighbouring Iraq, following a lightning offensive against the Syrian army by rebel forces […]

December 2, 2024

UK calls on Iran and Russia to follow international law amid airstrikes in Syria

Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer urged ‘all actors involved’ not to target civilians following recent airstrikes in Syria. Read More

December 2, 2024

Canada lists Houthi militant group as a terrorist entity

The Iran-backed group, officially known as Ansarallah, has contributed to unrest in the Middle East by attacking commercial and naval […]

December 2, 2024

Iran-backed militias join fight in Syria as Assad and Russia step up airstrikes against insurgency

Residents of Aleppo and the surrounding area fear an aerial onslaught after militants seize city Read More

December 2, 2024

Iran releases rapper Toomaj Salehi after overturned death sentence for supporting women’s rights

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has avoided a death sentence and been unexpectedly set free from prison after nearly two years, […]

December 2, 2024

The secrets of Vladimir Putin’s riches and the Salisbury poisoning: Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’

Jonathan Allen, the UK Foreign Office’s head of intelligence, said Putin may have been motivated to order the Novichok strike […]

December 2, 2024

News24 | Ukraine pins hopes on South Africa to repatriate forcibly deported children

The Ukrainian Association of South Africa has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to tell “his friend and ally” Vladimir Putin […]

December 1, 2024

Syria’s Rebels Struck When Assad’s Allies Were Weakened and Distracted

Diminished support for the Syrian government from Iran, Hezbollah and Russia enabled opposition forces to take the initiative and seize […]

December 1, 2024

Putin signs record Russian budget, a third on defense

President Vladimir Putin signed Russia’s new budget on Sunday, which includes record spending on military capabilities as Moscow’s assault on […]

December 1, 2024

Vladimir Putin approves record military budget in bid to finish Ukraine war with Russian president dedicating a THIRD of his country’s GDP to ‘national defence’

Around 32.5 per cent of the budget has been allocated for national defense next year, amounting to over £99billion, up […]