Wayne Lee -VOA News A U.S. House of Representatives task force has accused leaders of a key military command unit of manipulating intelligence reports to depict more favorable progress in combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria than warranted. The congressional joint task force, created in response to a whistlerblower allegation, released a report Thursday […]readmore

Young Turks are increasingly taking to studying abroad as Turkey reels from social and economic crisis. «Because of terror attacks, political uncertainty and security concerns in Turkey, the willingness of Turkish students to go abroad has seriously increased,» Rahmi Mesud Yilmaz, a Turkish foreign education consultant, told VOA. The number of students looking to study […]readmore

VOA News GENEVA — Russia is willing to discuss lengthening its daily, three-hour suspension of military action in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, according to U.N. officials who are also investigating reports that a bomb containing chlorine gas was used by the Syrian military in the area. The Russian military on Thursday was set to […]readmore