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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammoud told Sputnik on Saturday that the Nasib checkpoint at the country’s border with Jordan had been reopened for trucks and transit traffic. “The Syrian government opened the Nasib checkpoint on [Saturday] morning…
The Syrian army went ahead with its military op against terrorists in southern region of the country after a short tactical pause. A Sputnik correspondent in the As-Suwayda desert reported that the troops have made territorial gains and destroyed tens…
Everybody knows about the Western Front but one campaign has been almost erased from history. Sputnik spoke to Alan Wakefield, from the Imperial War Museum, about the Salonika Front, where British, French, Russian, Greek, Italian and Serbian troops all fought…
Time is marching on. While Washington was watching Senate testimony by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, which Kavanaugh denies, I had a whirlwind 24 hours in Austin,…
Democratic lawmakers staged multiple protests during a Senate Judiciary Committee vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Friday — a move that many called to delay in the wake of a raw and emotional hearing on sexual…
Artists perceive and deride the arrogance of miscreants while also acknowledging their allure, as in the Burkinabé director Idrissa Ouedraogo’s graceful yet harsh drama “Samba Traoré,” from 1992, a work of political fury with the lyricism of a folktale. The…
