Following increasing tensions, Russian official have met with residents of Daraa and agreed a new settlement, which should put an end to raids and arrests reports Nedaa Syria.

A war memoir written by a former Russian paratrooper who fought in Syria for the Kremlin-backed mercenary Wagner Group, owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a plutocrat nicknamed “Putin’s chef,” had been eagerly awaited. The 54-year-old author, Marat Gabidullin, who rose to become a commander of one of Wagner’s reconnaissance units, trailed …

European Union foreign ministers have given the final green light to establishing a system that would allow the 27-nation bloc to impose sanctions on human rights violators worldwide.