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More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015
More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said Thursday.The total number of dead since the beginning of the...
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Here's what we think is going to happen in 2016
In 2014, when Business Insider's Military & Defense team got together to guess the state of the world a year down the line, we thought we were embarking on a slightly embarrassing endeavor.It turns...
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Syria’s opposition wants a prisoner release ahead of negotiations later this...
Syria's opposition wants to see confidence-building steps from Damascus including a prisoner release before negotiations due this month, officials said on Monday, a demand that could complicate efforts...
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UN: Chemical arms probe has found signs people in Syria were exposed to...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it,...
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The Saudi Arabia-Iran conflict could hurt Obama's efforts to end the Syrian...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beneath this weekend's rupture in Iranian-Saudi relations lies a deeper fault line between the United States and Saudi Arabia that may hamper U.S. President Barack Obama's...
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Saudi Arabia says 'recent tensions' with Iran will not affect Syria talks
GENEVA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia signaled on Tuesday its breach in relations with Iran would not affect talks on Syria, another round of which is scheduled in Geneva this month.Riyadh and Tehran have...
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ISIS' territory in Syria and Iraq is shrinking — but there's a catch
The Islamic State's territory in 2015 shrank by 40% from its maximum expansion in Iraq and by 20% in Syria as international forces pushed its militants out of several cities, a spokesman of the US-led...
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Besieged Syrian villages are running low on food and medicine
Pro-government fighters recently evacuated from two besieged villages in northern Syria described harsh conditions there with scarce food and medicine, saying some residents are eating grass to survive...
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The US' best-case scenario for Syria has Assad staying in power when Obama...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's best-case scenario for political transition in Syria does not foresee Bashar Assad stepping down as the country's leader before March 2017, outlasting...
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Iran: 'Saudi Arabia's wrong decision will have an effect' on Syria talks
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia will affect the Syrian peace talks, Tehran's Deputy Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, adding his government would remain committed to the...
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‘The regime want people to die there’: Assad and Hezbollah are ‘starving...
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a pregnant woman and her daughter tried to sneak out of Madaya, a mountain village perched in the snow-capped peaks of southwestern Syria.As they reached the...
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The Kurds may be winning against ISIS, but they could end up making tensions...
Although the latest Kurdish offensive runs the risk of spurring direct Turkish intervention, it could also help isolate Islamic State forces in the area from their capital, with significant...
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Brookings experts weigh in: What is the future of al-Qaeda and ISIS?
Will McCants: As we wind down another year in the so-called Long War and begin another, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are in the fight against al-Qaida and its bête noire, the Islamic State....
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This was the moment Obama decided not to intervene in Syria
US President Barack Obama decided to delay launching airstrikes against the Syrian government in 2013 during a walk in the White House garden with his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, according to an...
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Syrian government says it will let humanitarian aid into besieged villages...
The Syrian government has agreed to allow humanitarian assistance into three beleaguered villages following reports of deaths from malnutrition in that part of the country, a U.N. official said...
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An ISIS member reportedly publicly executed his mother after she encouraged...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Activists say a member of ISIS executed his own mother in front of hundreds of people in Syria after she was accused of being an apostate, or someone who renounces the terrorist group's brand of...
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Russia's intervention in Syria 'has changed the slope' of the war's most...
Analysts largely agree that Russia's entry into the Syrian civil war on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not yet turned the tide of the war in Assad's favor.But in the nearly four months...
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It looks like ISIS ran a sophisticated immigration operation on the...
Islamic State ran a sophisticated immigration operation through a Syrian border town with Turkey until its defeat in the area by Kurds this summer, documents obtained by the Guardian suggest.Passenger...
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