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The 19 most miserable countries in the world
The latest findings of the World Happiness Report, an annual survey that assesses the state of global wellbeing, have been released ahead of the United Nations' International Happiness Day on March...
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Children in Syria 'have to re-learn what it’s like to be a human being'
Five years of conflict in Syria has left much of the country in ruins and robbed millions of their childhood.The conflict has helped trigger a worldwide refugee crisis with over 2.4 million Syrian...
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Vladimir Putin just did the US a huge favor
News that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a Russian air wing home from Syria indicates weakness to some observers. Low oil prices forced Putin to abandon the foreign venture. Geopolitical...
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Russia warns the US that it will start using force in response to ceasefire...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday warned the United States that it will start responding to cease-fire violations in Syria unilaterally starting Tuesday if the U.S. refuses to coordinate rules of...
View ArticleA Canadian model went to Syria to fight ISIS
Former Canadian model Hanna Böhman is in Syria fighting ISIS as part of the Kurdish YPJ, a female brigade that is part of the Kurdish coalition. The mother of one has been posting videos from the...
View ArticleA teenage girl who escaped Syria might swim in the Olympics
Yusra Mardini is a hopeful for the Rio Olympic Games this year, having fled Damascus only seven months ago. She's also got an incredible life philosophy.Story by Jacob Shamsian and editing by Chelsea...
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Putin left important military tasks 'unfinished' in Syria, and it shows that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin stunned the world last week when he announced that Moscow would be withdrawing "the main part" of its military presence in Syria four months after entering the war on...
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Syria's truce: 530 killed in first 23 days
A total of 530 people were killed in the first 23 days of a truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.In areas...
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Forget the threat of refugees from Syria, Europe already has a terrorism problem
Editor's Note: Do refugees from Syria and Iraq really pose a terrorism threat, as some have claimed? Dan Byman concludes that the actual security risks now are low, but the potential ones are...
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40 years of data reveal what most people get wrong about modern terrorism
Gruesome acts of terror — like the ones that unfolded in Brussels, Belgium on Monday, killing 28 people and injured dozens more — may appear random.All we see is the aftermath — the bloodied bodies and...
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Al Qaeda is revealing its long game in Syria
Al Qaeda is employing a strategy that might help the terrorist group outlast ISIS in Syria, and it's revealing its true jihadist endgame in the process.As a different terrorist group, ISIS — aka the...
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2 major battles for ISIS-controlled cities are unfolding in Syria and Iraq
Syrian and Iraqi forces are bringing the fight to ISIS on Thursday, launching attacks on two cities controlled by the militant group that is also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh.Syrian...
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Obama is facing 2 critical questions to negotiating peace in Syria
Following the ceasefire in Syria negotiated a month ago by Washington and Moscow, Secretary of State John Kerry must now work out a long-term settlement in Syria.Any agreement involves not only the...
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The Syrian army is advancing in the battle to recapture Palmyra from ISIS
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers advanced slowly in heavy fighting with Islamic State fighters near Palmyra's ancient ruins on Thursday, state media and a monitoring group said, in an offensive which...
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Are North Koreans fighting in Syria? It's not as far-fetched as it sounds
This week, representatives of Western-backed Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva told Russian state media that President Bashar al-Assad had a surprising new ally on the Syrian battlefield: militia...
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A US airstrike took out ISIS' No. 2 leader
ISIS' described No. 2 leader was killed in a Thursday strike in Syria, US officials announced Friday.The commander, Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, went by several aliases, including Haji Imam and Abu...
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ISIS takes biggest loss ever as Syrian army reclaims Palmyra
Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a "mortal blow" to militants who seized the city last year and...
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Photographs reveal the destruction left behind by ISIS in the ancient city of...
The Syrian army announced on Sunday that it had recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra, with the aid of Russian air support, from the Islamic State.ISIS fighters seized Palmyra in May 2015, immediately...
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Boris Johnson praises Putin's 'ruthless clarity' for helping Assad recapture...
Boris Johnson has praised Vladimir Putin's "ruthless clarity" in backing President Assad to remove "maniac" ISIS jihadists from Palmyra.The London Mayor said the UK should send top archaeologists to...
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ISIS' online propaganda may face resistance but offline its media project is...
The resistance facing Islamic State's online propaganda machine is well-documented — with tech giants like Apple, Twitter, and Facebook all attempting to suppress the influence of the jihdaist group....
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