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'Al Qaeda has sealed its future': Syria's jihadists may be the biggest...
Pro-regime forces recaptured the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra from ISIS over the weekend, dealing a blow to one of the terrorist group's most strategically and symbolically valuable strongholds in...
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This is the strategy that won back Palmyra
Syrian Army units have taken back the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State. The units are now also trying to extend their control to include al-Qaryatain, to the south west of Palmyra, and...
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Russia said it would leave Syria, but it is still shipping more equipment...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the...
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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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Russia: Reports that deal was made over Assad's future do not 'correspond to...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that a report by the al-Hayat newspaper on an agreement between Russia and the United States on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not...
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Amnesty: Turkey is illegally sending Syrian refugees back to the warzone they...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has illegally returned thousands of Syrians to their war-torn homeland in recent months, highlighting the dangers for migrants sent back from Europe under a deal due to come...
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STUDY: Belgium is the largest contributor of foreign fighters to Syria in...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - French, Germans and Britons make up the highest number of foreign fighters in the Syrian rebel ranks from European countries, but Belgium is the largest contributor in proportion...
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Obama on US drone strikes: 'Civilians have been killed that shouldn't have been'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is acknowledging that "civilians have been killed that shouldn't have been" in past U.S. drone strikes, but says the administration is now "very cautious"...
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Syrian state media is reporting that a mass grave has been found in Palmyra
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops have identified 45 bodies so far in a mass grave found in the city of Palmyra after it was recaptured from Islamic State, a military source told Reuters on...
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Ancient city of Palmyra littered with mines, graffiti after ISIS' retreat
Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in, a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its...
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Rebels are reportedly attacking Syrian government forces near Aleppo
Syrian rebels and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have mounted an offensive against Syrian government forces and on Saturday took a strategic hill south of Aleppo from government control, a...
View ArticleTwo women risked their lives to capture film in a city controlled by ISIS
Two Syrian women worked with the Swedish news organization Expressen to secretly film what life is like in Raqqa, the Syrian city ISIS has claimed as its capital. Their videos show the horrible...
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Syrian rebels have reportedly shot down a warplane near Aleppo
MMAN (Reuters) - Islamist rebels shot down a warplane on Tuesday in an area south of the city of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, the Syrian Observatory for...
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One of the world's most dangerous terror organizations has 'gone corporate'
While interviewing Hezbollah militants, you’d expect enthusiasm and some kind of zeal on their part towards the “existential” or “sacred” battle they’re fighting in Syria. You’d assume they’re...
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Satellite imagery reveals Hezbollah's play for permanent bases in Syria
Like other foreign and domestic actors, Hezbollah has seized on the Syrian civil war to improve its position in the country and the surrounding region. Stratfor has collected information from...
View ArticleA man climbed a power line and threatened to hang himself to protest Europe’s...
Greece is currently home to over 50,000 refugees, all fleeing the Syrian Civil War. A new EU deal now permits the Greek government to deport its refugees through Turkey. Here's one man's response in...
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ISIS is making $200 million from stolen ancient artifacts
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between $150 million and $200 million per year from illicit trade in plundered antiquities, Russia's ambassador to the...
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Assad's master plan is working — and now he's entrenching himself even deeper
As regime forces continue to beat back ISIS in Syria, the country's embattled president is using the gains to his advantage to convince the West that he's a viable partner in the fight against...
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The modern slave trade is highly profitable and growing
The news that criminal gangs have penetrated refugee communities from the area hit by the Nepali earthquake and are offering their children for sale as domestic servants in the UK and other wealthy...
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Syrian state TV: ISIS has kidnapped 300 cement workers outside Damascus
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have kidnapped 300 cement workers in an area northeast of Damascus where the militants launched an assault against government forces this week, Syrian state...
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