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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: 7 charts that show why the tit for tat over crumbs in the South China Sea isn't for nothingCars of...
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Syria denounces 'outrageous' Turkish artillery shelling
The main Syrian opposition group said Saturday it would be ready "in principle" to implement a provisional truce, slamming Russia and the Syrian government after a deadline set for a temporary...
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Syria's Assad is ready for truce — if 'terrorists' don't exploit it
BEIRUT/MADRID (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire, on condition "terrorists" did not use a lull in fighting to their advantage and that countries...
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Syria's ambassador to the UN has accused a world-renowned charity of being a...
The Syrian envoy to the United Nations has accused French charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) of being a front for French intelligence operating in Syria, French newspaper Le Monde reports.Bashar...
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People are ‘too afraid to go to hospitals’ in Syria — and it signals Russia’s...
Nothing is sacred in Syria's brutal civil war.Even hospitals have become fair game for airstrikes and bombings. Trying to get treated for wounds sustained elsewhere could turn into a death sentence.The...
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Kerry: 'Provisional agreement' reached with Russia on cessation of...
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and...
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Twin bombings claimed by ISIS kill at least 57 people near Syria's capital
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Twin car bomb blasts killed at least 57 people in Syria's Homs on Sunday, a monitoring group said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.At least 100 others were injured in the...
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'A multifaceted catastrophe': Turkey has 'so alienated everyone it cannot...
ISTANBUL — Turkey is confronting what amounts to a strategic nightmare as bombs explode in its cities, its enemies encroach on its borders and its allies seemingly snub its demands.As recently as four...
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IS bombers claim at least 140 lives in Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus
ISIS has claimed responsibility for attacks in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Homs that claimed at least 140 lives, the BBC reports.Four blasts in Syria's capital city killed at least 80 people on...
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US and Russia agree to implement ceasefire in Syria on Saturday
On February 19, an important deadline in Syria's Civil War was missed. A week prior, the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), a group of countries with interests in the outcome of the Syria...
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The US military believes ISIS is 'in a defensive crouch'
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. estimates of the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria have been reduced while cuts in their pay are evidence they are on the defensive, a spokesman for the...
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'The fastest-growing criminal market in Europe' netted £4.6 billion last year
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - People-smuggling gangs netted up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion, £4.6 billion) last year, most of it from the traffic of migrants into Europe, the European Union's police agency...
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Russia's bizarre, barely coherent defense that it didn't bomb hospitals in Syria
Following the earlier attacks on medical facilities in Syria run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) the Russian Defence Ministry has published a statement explaining why it’s not responsible for the...
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UN: ISIS and the Assad regime are committing crimes against humanity in Syria
War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the...
View ArticleWatch a US-led coalition airstrike decimate an ISIS weapons facility
via GIPHYUS-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) on February 15 destroyed a weapons storage facility near Abu Kamal, Syria.The strike was just one of 30...
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ISIS is resorting to a desperate financial measure to squeeze more money from...
Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are manipulating the exchange rate between US dollars and Iraqi dinars to squeeze money out of local people as coalition bombers attack the...
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Syrian government accepts halt to 'combat operations'
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The Syrian government said on Tuesday it accepted a halt to "combat operations" that does not include the Islamic State group, the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or groups connected...
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ISIS cuts off crucial government supply line to Syria's largest city
Islamic State fighters were reported to have tightened their grip on a Syrian government supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road, which is important to its campaign to...
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Turkey's president says Russia continues to violate Turkish airspace
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Russia of continuing to violate Turkish airspace, three months after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian...
View ArticleWatch a precision airstrike wipe out an ISIS barracks and a vehicle...
via GIPHYUS-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) on February 15 destroyed a barracks and vehicle checkpoint near Abu Kamal, Syria.The strike was just one of 30...
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