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White House pushes back on report of top aide saying he's 'not proud' of US...
The White House is pushing back on a report in The Daily Beast that quotes top national-security official Ben Rhodes saying that he's "not proud" of US policy in Syria.The Daily Beast quoted Rhodes as...
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Hezbollah accuses Islamist extremists of killing its top military commander...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah said on Saturday "takfiri groups" were responsible for a blast which killed the group's top military commander Mustafa Badreddine."Takfiri" is a word...
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Russia is building a new army base at a famous archaeological site in Syria
BEIRUT – The Russian military is constructing a new army base in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, within the protected zone that holds the archaeological site listed by UNESCO as a world heritage...
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14 photos that show what the nightlife is like in Damascus, Syria's war-torn...
The Syrian civil war has been raging for more than four years, and while millions of refugees have fled the country, there are many young Syrians who are just trying to live normal lives. In Damascus'...
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ISIS is losing more territory in the Middle East
US officials announced this week that ISIS has lost more territory in Iraq and Syria as the international effort to take back land the terrorist group seized continues.Operation Inherent Resolve...
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Abandoned Dutch prisons are now being used to house refugees
Tens of thousands of refugees from all over the Middle East — countries like Syria, Iraq, Morocco, and Libya — have found an unlikely haven in the Netherlands.Crime has been on the decline for the last...
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Hezbollah's dead military commander is leaving behind a mysterious legacy
On the second floor of an innocuous-looking little shop in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah commander holds court amid stored juice boxes and sacks of rice.Cellphones are forbidden here...
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Russia proposes joint airstrikes in Syria with US
Russia has proposed to the Unites States and the U.S.-led coalition that they begin on May 25 joint air strikes in Syria, targeting the Nusra Front and other rebels who are not observing the ceasefire,...
View ArticleThe US-led coalition is dropping these leaflets on ISIS' capital in Syria to...
The US-led coalition has begun a new "mess-with-them" campaign that involves dropping leaflets on ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, urging residents to leave the city, The Daily Beast's Nancy...
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US military could deploy to Libya 'any day'
After a week of rumblings that the US was preparing to arm and deploy Special Forces to Libya, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, said on Thursday that a military...
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There's a 'secondary conflict' brewing in northern Syria that 'could easily...
Two Syrian Kurds were shot dead by a former member of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) last weekend, in what the executioner said was a response to an incident last month in which the Kurdish People's...
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The world's 2 biggest terror groups are gearing up to battle each other in Syria
Experts have been warning for a while now that Al Qaeda is still very much a presence as a jihadist group, posing perhaps an even bigger long-term threat than ISIS.And now, Al Qaeda is planning to...
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A top US commander made a secret visit to Syria
NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) -- On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his...
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A top US commander made a secret trip to a Syrian warzone
NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) — On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own...
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for bombings that killed more than 120 people...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bomb blasts killed scores of people in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous on Monday, and wounded many others in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian...
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Iranian military mastermind: 'Iran has triumphed in all arenas' in the Middle...
BEIRUT – The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force has delivered a bombastic speech in which he claimed that Tehran has “triumphed” over its enemies in the Middle East.“It is...
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Tony Blair has called on the UK to deploy ground forces against ISIS
Isis will not be defeated without the deployment of ground forces against them, Tony Blair has said.Speaking at an event hosted by Prospect magazine, the mastermind of Britain’s involvement in 2003...
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US-backed Syrian forces are launching an offensive against ISIS's de facto...
BEIRUT – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by Kurdish troops have launched a widely-anticipated offensive north of ISIS’s de-facto capital of Raqqa, days after Washington’s top military...
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Satellite imagery reveals ISIS's successful attack against a Russian airbase...
In war, even the most advanced aircraft can be shot down, special operations forces can be ambushed, and well-defended airports and army bases can be shelled and weakened from afar by simple,...
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US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces begin offensive to seize territory around...
AMMAN (Reuters) - An alliance of Kurdish-led armed groups fighting Islamic State in northern Syria said they had launched an offensive on Tuesday to seize countryside north of the militants' de facto...
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