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ISIS strikes in Assad territory are exposing Syria and Russia's weaknesses
Months after Russia spectacularly entered the Syrian conflict, Islamic State (IS) is still thumbing its nose at both Moscow and the Assad regime in murderous fashion.On May 23, the group detonated...
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Assad's army captured a key breadbasket, and now 600,000 Syrians face starvation
More than half a million people in rebel-held suburbs to the east of Damascus are facing imminent starvation, after the Syrian army broke through rebel lines last week, separating people from the...
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People are getting worked up over these photos of US soldiers wearing Kurdish...
Photos of US soldiers wearing patches from the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, as they fight the Islamic State alongside Kurds in Syria have reignited the debate over Washington's support for...
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Dramatic video appears to show the moment a boat carrying hundreds of...
A video released by the Italian navy's official website appears to show the moment a migrant boat carrying hundreds of people capsized off the coast of Libya.At least 20 people are believed to have...
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More than 4,000 Iraqis have fled to Syria to escape the Islamic State
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 4,200 Iraqis from Mosul fled to Syria in May, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding it is gearing up for up to 50,000 people to leave the Islamic...
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'They stood out right away': The story behind those controversial photos of...
Photos of US troops wearing patches from the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, known as the YPG, while fighting the Islamic State alongside Kurds in Syria have raised questions about how close US...
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ISIS militants just staged a major land grab from rebels in northern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Militants of the Islamic State group on Friday seized a string of villages from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border in rapid advances that forced the evacuation of a hospital and...
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A survivor from the Minneapolis bridge collapse is now linked to ISIS
Mohamed Roble was weeks shy of his 11th birthday when the school bus he was on plummeted more than 30 feet as the bridge beneath gave way.Now, according to court testimony in a federal terrorism trial,...
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A new photo of a Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria has appeared...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent...
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One of the biggest ever battles against ISIS is going on right now in Fallujah
The Iraqi army stormed to the southern edge of Fallujah under US air support on Monday and captured a police station inside the city limits, launching a direct assault to retake one of the main...
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Russia denies it conducted fatal air strikes on Syria's Idlib that left 23...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday denied its planes had conducted air strikes overnight against the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said had killed 23...
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These are the 6 countries on board with Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea
Since Russia's illegal seizure and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine on March 18, 2014, six countries have come out in support of Moscow.And in any other circumstance, the support Russia has received...
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President Obama just passed a somber milestone earlier this month
As the current presidential nominees jockey to take the reins of America's highest office, the current commander in chief passed a somber milestone earlier this month.Since President Barack Obama's...
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A prominent group inside ISIS's de facto capital had an ominous warning for...
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, the anti-ISIS citizen-journalist organization, said last week that the US's strategy to drive the Islamic State out of its de facto capital using a...
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US-backed fighters in Syria are trying to close off ISIS' 'last remaining...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are launching an offensive to capture from Islamic State a crucial swathe of northern Syria known as the Manbij pocket following weeks...
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Thousands of US-backed fighters have opened a major new front in Syria's war
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a...
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A new US plan against ISIS might be 'dangerously counterproductive'
US-backed forces are finally moving toward Raqqa, ISIS' de facto capital in Syria.But the plan to retake the city and surrounding areas from the militants is burdened by a potentially fatal flaw: The...
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Watch US-led airstrikes destroy an ISIS weapons cache in Syria
Recent footage released by the Combined Joint Task Force's Operation Inherent Resolve shows a US-led coalition warplane destroying an ISIS weapons cache near the group's Syrian capital of Al-Raqqah on...
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Suicide bomber kills several in Assad heartland along Syria's Mediterranean...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on Thursday, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media...
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Russia is 'paving the way' for a major re-escalation in Syria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters Monday that Russia would provide "the most active" support to the Syrian army to keep the strategic city of Aleppo and the surrounding area from...
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