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The US can't afford to shift its focus from the Middle East
ForecastPolitical and social turbulence in the Middle East will continue to foster the rise of terrorist groups, some of which will have the motivation and capability to attack US interests.As the...
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Report: One-third of Hezbollah’s fighters have been killed or injured in Syria
The Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah has seen between 1,300 and 1,500 of its fighters killed in battles in the Syrian civil war, which means that together with the wounded it has lost as much as a...
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US delivers fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian rebels ahead of an offensive...
The United States has delivered a fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters ahead of an expected stiff battle with Islamic State as they push toward the Syrian town of al-Shadadi, a key...
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Putin just made a major admission about one of Russia's primary goals in Syria
In his annual marathon news conference Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war as a military "exercise" for Russia's "air forces,...
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Human Rights Watch: Up to 7,000 Syrians have died in state detention centers...
A leading rights group has released new evidence that up to 7,000 Syrians who died in state detention centres were tortured, mistreated, or executed and insisted that holding officials to account...
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Watch a French Rafale use Scalp cruise missiles against ISIS targets for the...
On Dec. 15, the French Air Force conducted a raid against ISIS targets using the Scalp-EG cruise missile for the first time since the beginning of Operation Chammal.According to a statement from the...
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An ISIS defector says the group is recruiting people for attacks in Germany
A German man who recently returned to the country from Syria told authorities that the terrorist group ISIS is looking for volunteers to carry out attacks in Germany, the newspaper Der Spiegel...
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As if Syria didn't have enough problems — there is now an outbreak of a...
As if years of war, terrorism and oppression weren’t harrowing enough for the people of Syria, the country is experiencing an epidemic of a so-called flesh-eating disease. Outbreaks of the disease,...
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UN: The number of refugees worldwide has surpassed a record 60 million
GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of people forcibly displaced worldwide is likely to have "far surpassed" a record 60 million this year, mainly driven by the Syrian war and other protracted conflicts, the...
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A new round of Syria peace talks is being held today in New York — and Russia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States and world powers gather again in an attempt to end Syria's civil war, Russia appears to be calling the shots.Nations meeting Friday in New York and the U.N. will...
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German spies are working with Syrian president Assad's secret service
Germany's spy agency is working again with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's secret service to swap information on Islamist militants, the Bild daily said, despite Berlin's opposition to Assad staying...
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The world in photos this week
A selection of photos from some of this week's biggest news that you might have missed.SEE ALSO: 9 wars that were technically ongoing due to quirks of diplomacyMartin Shkreli, the former hedge fund...
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Obama’s former defense secretary confirmed a huge suspicion about the White...
Two years after the war in Syria had broken out, the Obama administration had still not formulated a coherent policy response to the crisis that has now claimed more than 200,000 lives.That is...
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Putin gave his biggest signal yet that he intends to 'stay the course' of the...
The Russian military can "train" in Syria "for a long time without any serious harm to Russia's budget," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual marathon press conference Thursday...
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Bombs believed Russian kill at least 43 people in busy Syrian marketplace
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the center of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria on Sunday, rescue workers and residents...
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12 big geopolitical events we thought would happen in 2015
As 2015 wraps up, here's a look at are our 12 predictions for this past year. This post was originally published on December 29, 2014. If 2014 proved anything, it's that guessing at the state of the...
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A UN resolution on Syria is shattered — and Russia is to blame
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Friday demanding that "all parties immediately cease any attacks against civilians and civilian objects" as well as "any indiscriminate use of...
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'We’ve never been bombed like this': Russia's military campaign in Syria has...
On Sunday, Russian airstrikes over a busy marketplace in the rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria, killed at least 70 civilians and wounded dozens more.“We’ve never been bombed like this," Issa Khaled, a...
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21 heartbreaking photos of the ongoing refugee crisis
Instability throughout large parts of the world in 2015 have furthered exacerbated a growing refugee crisis in Turkey, parts of the Middle East, and throughout Europe. Coming from war zones in Syria,...
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Amnesty International: Russia’s bombing in Syria may be a war crime
Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the...
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