CIA Director John Brennan said the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama overestimated the outcome of the Arab Spring, in expecting democracy to take root in the region. In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN, Brennan said that although the people in the region wanted individual freedom, “the concept ...
Iraqi forces battling the ISIL group in Mosul are approaching the Tigris River, which runs through the center of the city, the spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service said Saturday. Iraq launched a massive operation on October 17 to retake Mosul from the ‘jihadists’, who seized the city more than two ...