Syria Orders Kurdish SDF to Return to Civilian Life by End of February

Feds, LAPD Announce Major Human Trafficking Sting In LA Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities have arrested 10 people in a major human trafficking investigation, with prosecutors saying the individuals targeted children and adults along South Los Angeles' Figueroa Corridor, marking the second large federal operation in the area in less than a year. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli speaks as Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell (R) and Special Agent in Charge Kenny Cooper of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Los Angeles Field...

Pakistan Uses Diplomacy To Secure LNG Supply from Hormuz Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Pakistan has negotiated the passage of vessels laden with Qatari LNG out of the Strait of Hormuz in a diplomatic feat that no other energy buyer has managed so far in the Iran war. Pakistan, which was the mediator of the U.S.-Iran talks and is passing messages from one to the other, appears to have used well its close ties with both Qatar and Iran to negotiate the successful imports of two tankers with Qatari LNG. Pakistan has...

Houthis Claim Saudi Jet Shootdown, Blast Mecca Drone Reports as "Fabrications & Lies" Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has claimed to have shot down a Saudi fighter jet in a Wednesday statement, saying they utilized domestic made munitions to do it. "The Yemeni Armed Forces, with Allah's aid and grace, succeeded in shooting down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet while it was carrying out hostile operations," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced. Royal Saudi Air Force He said the fighter jet had been targeted "using a locally made" missile over Marib - after the Saudi...