Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday, June 14, that it carried out a series of simultaneous operations in cooperation with Iraq’s General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, dismantling an organized international drug smuggling network. The ministry said in a statement on Facebook that the operation was carried out “as …

The key benchmark is whether armed groups in Iraq, regardless of loyalties or ideology, operate under the authority of the state rather than alongside it In an apparent step forward in longstanding plans to bring Iraq’s militias under state control, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pledged on 27 May to disband …

Two immigrants from Brazil through social networks recruited citizens into the Russian army, and when they were at the front, they appropriated the payments due to them. The victims were forced to sign the powers of attorney to recruiters, using their ignorance of the Russian language. More than ten Brazilians …