On 17/10/2016, the start of the battle to regain Mosul was announced, what is intended by this? How can we understand the previous statements of the American officials who were expecting the battle of Mosul to take place after many years?

Hollande described the Russian airstrikes on Aleppo, "is truly a war crime." (BBC, 20/10/2016), after the inauguration of the Orthodox Russian Cultural Religious Center ceremony held in the absence of Putin on 19/10/2016.

What is the ruling on participating in the municipality (council) elections?

The truce collapsed that America and Russia spent lengthy meetings designing to the extent that some meetings lasted up to ten hours between Kerry and Lavrov. America and Russia were boasting that it differed from previous truces and that this time America will ensure the implementation from its part and that of the opposition... and Russia will ensure its implementation from its part and that of the (Syrian) regime... But…