On January 13, the US Treasury Department in the final days of the Trump administration, sanctioned the Astan Quds Razavi Foundation and 15 other institutions, some of which are under the direct supervision of the regime’s Supreme Leader, to further its maximum pressure campaign.

SOHR sources say that joint forces of the National Defense militia, the Palestinian Al-Quds Brigade and the pro-Russian Fifth Corps, as well as regime forces, continue to comb areas in the Syrian desert, from Kabajib and al-Shoula west of Deir ez-Zor to al-Sukhna, as part of the security campaign that …

Libya entered 2020 in midst of full-blown war between rival GNA and Haftar’s National Libyan Army (AFP/File photo) Russia-backed Wagner Group mercenaries are digging an enormous trench in war-torn Libya, potentially threatening to derail a UN-brokered peace deal, CNN reported.