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China’s fast expanding economic footprint across the Arab world, with a focus on opportunities in various sectors, including healthcare, retail and infrastructure. The sixth edition of the conference is also aimed at promoting a multidirectional flow of investment and facilitating investment in areas of new opportunities, officials said.

Syria’s Information Ministry has revoked the BBC’s media accreditation over alleged bias

A drone strike on July 7 killed an Islamic State (ISIS) group leader in Eastern Syria, the US Central Command said in a statement on Sunday.  The US Central Command said, it “conducted a strike in Syria that resulted in the death of Usamah al-Muhajir, an ISIS leader in eastern Syria," without giving any more details on al-Muhajir, the Reuters reported It used the same MQ-9 drones in the attack that had "earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that lasted almost two hours", the statement added. "We have made it clear that we remain committed to the defeat of ISIS throughout the region," AFP reported quoting Centcom chief General Michael Kurilla as saying, using another acronym for the IS jihadist group.

Syria on Saturday announced it was cancelling the BBC's accreditation over what it called «misleading reports», a rare move against an international media outlet in the war-torn country. «Due to the broadcaster's failure to adhere to professional standards and its insistence on providing biased and misleading reports», the information ministry has decided to «cancel the accreditation» of the BBC's «correspondent and cameraman», it said in a statement.

Two Edmonton women were arrested after returning to Canada from a prison camp for ISIS families in Syria, the RCMP confirmed on Friday.

Syria for the third day in a row this week, the U.S. military said. Tension between Russian and U.S.

Russian fighter jets have “harassed” American drones over Syria for the third day in a row this week, the U.S. military said. Tension between Russian and U.S. troops is not uncommon in Syria as both countries conduct patrols on the ground as well as overflights. Syria’s 12-year conflict has left half a million people dead and over 1 million wounded. The U.S. military said in a statement that Friday’s encounter lasted for about two hours during which three MQ-9 drones were “once again harassed” by Russian fighter aircraft while flying over Syria.

Russian and Syrian militaries were engaged in a six-day joint military training which ended on Monday, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, said earlier this week. Gurinov, in his remarks quoted by the Syrian state media earlier this week, expressed Moscow's apprehension regarding the drone operations conducted by the coalition led by the United States over the northern region of Syria.

By Olena Harmash

Russia, a squadron of Russian SU-35 fighter aircraft engaged in dangerous behavior by harassing US MQ-9 drones over Syrian airspace on Wednesday. Departing from established norms and protocols, the Russian fighters deployed parachute flares directly in the flight path of the American drones, creating a hazardous situation. The US Air Forces Central swiftly responded to the incident by releasing a video footage that vividly captured the encounter.

Wagner boss of «going off the rails» after receiving billions in public funds, as Moscow's new narrative takes shape after Wagner's brief mutiny. Last weekend the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, led his forces in a short-lived rebellion against Russia's top military brass, in a huge embarrassment for the Kremlin. «Prigozhin has gone off the rails because of big money,» Dmitry Kiselev, one of the main faces of the Russian propaganda machine, said on his weekly television show on Sunday.

Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the air defences shot down some of the missiles fired by Israeli warplanes flying over neighbouring Lebanon.

Taliban has reacted to the 'Global Peace Index 2022' of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and called the findings related to Afghanistan «unjust,» Afghanistan-based TOLO News reported. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in the 'Global Peace Index 2022' said that Afghanistan is the «least peaceful country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Yemen, Syria, Russia and South Sudan.» All these countries have remained among the ten least peaceful nations for the past three years.

Israel has seized crypto wallets containing millions of dollars intended to fund terror, the country’s National Bureau for Counter Terrorist Financing announced June 28. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant credited collaboration among the Israeli defense and justice ministries, Israeli intelligence and new technology for the operation, according to local media.

The United States Justice Department (DOJ) has filed an objection to a motion by bankrupt cryptocurrency trading platform Bittrex to allow customers to withdraw their crypto and fiat. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) is Bittrex’s biggest creditor, but its claim would be subordinated under the Bittrex proposal.

The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has agreed to a $7.6 million settlement related to more than 65,000 apparent violations of multiple sanctions programs.

In the mid-2010s, the Islamic State was rapidly advancing through Iraq and Syria, conquering territory and terrifying residents. However, one group of Kurds in Northern Syria representing the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, in an area known as Rojava, successfully fought back the Islamic State and captured the attention of the world.

Beginning March 20, folks across the crypto industry will be able to mint nonfungible tokens (NFTs) out of Cointelegraph’s 2023 Top 100. Cointelegraph unveiled its 2023 Top 100 list of the most impactful heroes and villains in the crypto and blockchain space in February. It was published in batches throughout the month, counting down to the top-ranked profile, with each entry including a bio and an animated picture.

Across the globe, women creators and founders in Web3 are building communities and innovating to help other women create wealth and have ownership and integrity over their work. At the same time, humanitarian efforts within the crypto space are evolving and gaining traction thanks to decentralized finance. Through the rise of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), generating funds for public good has become easier.

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Blockchain technology continues to make its way into mainstream view, as many companies adopt the technology as a part of their operations. In the push for adoption of this technology comes the simultaneous need for more education on the technology.