Military

Syria army seizes key rebel-held town in Latakia: State TV

Syrian regime forces on Jan. 24 overran the last major rebel-held town in the coastal Latakia province, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state television reported.
 
Citing a military source, state television said Syria's "armed forces, in coordination with the popular defence (militia), seized control of the town of Rabia."  

U.S. to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday that U.S. will use “boots on the ground” to take back the cities Mosul and Raqqa and fight ISIS militants.

“We need to destroy them in those two places, and I’d like to get on with that as soon as possible,” Mr. Carter, speaking from Davos, Switzerland, said in an interview on CNBC.

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