American forces targeted a “senior” member of the jihadist Islamic State group Thursday in a pre-dawn raid on northeastern Syria.

As cholera spreads in northeastern Syria, concerns are mounting about an outbreak of the disease in other parts of the country, including in the northwest where displacement camps that lack any basic infrastructure could serve as a hotbed for the infectious disease.

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The decision on possible use of the Turkish payment system TROY as an alternative to Russia’s Mir may be announced by central banks of Russia and Turkey shortly, a source in Turkish financial circles told TASS on Wednesday.

Syria’s health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is “evolving alarmingly”.

An An-26 military transport plane of Russia’s Aerospace Forces had to dodge two US combat drones in Syria’s north while performing a resupply mission for Russian troops deployed in the country, a senior Russian military official said on Tuesday.

The Iranian government amended the terms of its free trade agreement with Syria Sunday night.

Syrian government forces and Russia have recently renewed their ground and airstrikes on Idlib province in northwestern Syria.

Tehran regrets the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday.

… Iran ’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the US and Israel of masterminding anti-regime protests prompted by the death in police custody…