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Busloads of Syrian rebels leave last insurgent-held area of Homs in rare...
Busloads of Syrians including rebel fighters left the last insurgent-held area of Homs on Wednesday under a rare local truce agreement in Syria's nearly five-year conflict that will shore up government...
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The Kremlin announced it has successfully struck two major terrorist positions in Syria using powerful submarine missiles.Produced by Lamar SalterFollow BI Video: On FacebookJoin the conversation...
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Turkish army hits Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq overnight
Turkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq overnight and a policeman was killed in southeastern Turkey during clashes with the group.Turkish jets hit...
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Turkish Prime Minister accuses Russia of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister accused Russia on Wednesday of attempted "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria, saying Moscow was trying to drive out the local Turkmen and Sunni Muslim...
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Carter: The US is ready to do more to help retake Ramadi
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday the U.S. is willing to assist the Iraqi army with more personnel and attack helicopters to help it fight Islamic State militants, especially in the battle to...
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Decades of 'reckless' arms transfers to the Middle East have fueled the rise...
Decades of mismanaged campaigns to arm factions and governments in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, led by the US and others, have ended up benefiting ISIS, according to an Amnesty International...
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Child soldiers are a cornerstone of ISIS's strategy
Among the darkest and most disturbing pieces of propaganda disseminated by the Islamic State's (Isis's) media machine are the slew of posed photos, hate-filled proclamations and grisly beheadings...
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Russia's intervention in Syria in one infographic
At the end of October we posted the first version of this infographic about the Russian Intervention in Syria, prepared by Louis Martin-Vézian of CIGeography.Many things have happened since then: the...
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Migration is not worth the risk, says Syrian man whose family drowned
A Syrian man whose wife and seven children drowned as they attempted to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to mainland Europe has warned other refugees that the risks of migration are not worth...
View ArticleRussia has bombed more than 600 Syrian targets in the past few days
Russian forces have bombed more than 600 Syrian targets in the past few days, hitting Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Homs, and Hama, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.Russia also claims to have hit...
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Iraqi forces are advancing on ISIS forces in Ramadi
Iraqi security forces have made advances on two fronts in the city of Ramadi, clearing Islamic State militants from a key military command base and a sprawling neighborhood on its western edge, army...
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US official: ISIS and the Assad regime are 'engaged in millions and millions...
Islamic State militants are engaged in oil trading worth as much as $40 million a month with significant volumes sold to the government of President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way across the...
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Key Syrian opposition group agrees to join peace talks with Syrian government
RIYADH (Reuters) - The Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham has signed up to a Syrian opposition statement issued after two days of talks in Riyadh, according to a copy of the statement seen by...
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The US claims to have killed ISIS' finance minister and two other senior leaders
The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has killed the group's finance minister and two other senior leaders in air strikes in recent weeks, a US military spokesman said...
View ArticleFemale fighters say the men of ISIS are terrified of getting killed by a girl
ISIS is scared of girls.Specifically, the Kurdish women that are coming to fight them.The Women's Protection Units (YPJ) are the female branch of the People's Protection Units, the rebel militia...
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Millennials increasingly support a ground war in Syria, but not joining the...
A new survey of young voters finds increasing support for a ground war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) after the attacks in Paris, though the vast majority of the same voters...
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Putin just told his military to act in an 'extremely tough way' and to...
President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered Russia's armed forces to act in an "extremely tough way" in Syria to protect Russian forces striking Islamic State targets."Any targets threatening our...
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An open source intelligence investigation into the bombing of Syria's water...
Water is playing an increasingly important role in the Syrian Civil War. November 2015 witnessed at least two attacks on water facilities in the Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor Governorates.Islamic State...
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SyrianAir only has one operational passenger jet left
Syria’s ruling Baath Party has blasted Damascus’s flag carrier SyrianAir, saying that mismanagement has left the beleaguered airliner with only one operational passenger jet. “Nobody, not even the...
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Banksy's newest graffiti depicts Steve Jobs as a Syrian refugee
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was the biological son of a Syrian immigrant, and the anonymous street artist known as Banksy is using that piece of history to bring attention to the ongoing Syrian refugee...
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