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Turkey will offer Syrian refugees work permits to discourage them from...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to encourage fewer of them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday, amid EU...
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At least 12 children killed after airstrike believed Russian hits Syria school
At least 12 children and three adults were killed in a Russian air strike that hit a school in Syria's Aleppo province on Monday, a monitor said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three...
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PUTIN: Syria needs a new constitution
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Syria needs to start working on a new constitution as a first step to finding a political solution to its civil war, though he acknowledged the process was likely...
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Putin just suggested it would be easy to grant asylum to Syria's Assad
It would be less difficult for Russia to grant asylum to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad than it was to shelter former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, Russian President Vladimir...
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Cameron just admitted that he is willing to work with 'relatively hardline...
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Tuesday that the British government is prepared to work militarily with relatively hardline Islamist groups in Syria.Cameron made the admission while...
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Top Israeli diplomat: 'Iran wants to turn Syria into a province of Iran'
Israeli leaders have made it clear that they consider Iran to be the country's top strategic threat, with Tehran posing a greater danger than any Palestinian armed faction or even ISIS.During a talk...
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Syria's rebels reject peace talks unless UN resolution implemented
Syrian rebel groups said on Wednesday they would not take part in peace talks scheduled this month unless humanitarian articles in the latest UN resolution were implemented.The groups, which include...
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Charlie Hebdo apparently released a cartoon mocking the drowned Syrian toddler
The satirical French weekly publication, Charlie Hebdo, has come under fire for publishing a cartoon that suggests that Aylan Kurdi, a toddler who drowned off the coast of Turkey while attempting to...
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Turkish forces kill nearly 200 ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq in...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish land forces have fired nearly 500 times on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq, killing almost 200 militants in response to a suicide bombing in Istanbul which killed 10...
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Fighting ISIS: A look at the handguns of the Kurdish Peshmerga
Basically, there are three handguns that you are most likely to see on a Peshmerga officer’s hip: a Glock 19, a Walther P1/P-38, or an HS.Everybody knows what a Glock is, and the Walther is also a...
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Turkish prime minister: 'Secret actors' are behind the Istanbul terror attack
"Secret actors" were behind the terrorist attack that killed 10 people in Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday."Turkish security...
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Experts examine the US strategy for defeating ISIS and Al Qaeda
The Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats Project for the American Enterprise Institute held a planning exercise (PLANEX) in late 2015 and early 2016 to look at the threats facing the...
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20 jaw-dropping photos of some of the toughest military training regimes in...
The physical and psychological rigors of combat are intense, and militaries have the challenge preparing their soldiers for the worst of what they may face on the battlefield.The world's militaries...
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The US is considering a new plan for Syria — and the Kurds 'will not be happy...
The Pentagon is weighing a new request from Turkey to train and equip Arab rebels battling government forces in northern Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.The request, which...
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UN: 396,000 people under siege in Syria have no access to food aid
The western Syrian town of Madaya has been blockaded the Syrian military and militias allied with the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, including Hezbollah for the past six months.Nearly 400 people...
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UNICEF workers witnessed the death of a starving teenager in a besieged...
BEIRUT (AP) — The UN children's agency said Friday that it has witnessed cases of severe malnutrition among children in a besieged Syrian town and the death of a teenager "in front of our eyes."Hanaa...
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Russia is deploying high-tech attack helicopters to protect its base in Syria
Russian Kamov Ka-52 (NATO reporting name “Hokum-B”) helicopters are about to be deployed to Syria according to a source who talked to ITAR-TASS.The attack choppers will be used to protect the Russian...
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Syrian native describes what daily life is like in ISIS' de facto capital
A Syrian native wrote two columns this week describing what day-to-day life has become in Raqqa, Syria — the de facto capital of the terrorist group ISIS.He wrote of a city where a person's appearance...
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Here's why US soldiers love the A-10
On Wednesday, the news broke that the Pentagon would not mothball the much loved A-10 Thunderbolt, or "Warthog," as it has come to be known.The debate surrounding the A-10, a Cold War-era close air...
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The real meaning of ISIS's expansion into Turkey, Afghanistan, and Indonesia
It is all too easy to react to each new terrorist attack by ISIS by focusing on that attack, on ISIS, and on terrorism, rather than the broader policy challenges involved. It seems equally easy to...
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