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Hezbollah has suffered its heaviest losses yet in a critical battle in Syria
BEIRUT – A Hezbollah official has discussed the recent battles southwest of Aleppo, where the party in recent days reportedly suffered its worst losses since entering the conflict.“The takfiri groups...
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More than 700 doctors have been killed in Syria since the start of the war
Geneva (AFP) - Attacks on hospitals since Syria's war broke out five years ago have left more than 700 doctors and medical workers dead, many of them in air strikes, UN investigators said Tuesday.The...
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Russia blasts senior UN officials for criticizing Syria's government
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia blasted senior United Nations officials on Tuesday for their criticism of the behavior of Syria's security forces during the country's five-year civil war and failure...
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The State Department's Syria revolt could have an important effect in the...
A dissent cable signed by 51 mid- to high-level State Department officials calling for US airstrikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad is unlikely to spur a military incursion into Syria in...
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19 incredible photos of some of the most intense military training regimes in...
The physical and psychological rigors of combat are intense, and militaries have the challenge preparing their soldiers for the worst of what they may face on the battlefield.The world's militaries...
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Assad reportedly just tasked Syria's Electricity Minister with forming a new...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad tasked the country's Electricity Minister Emad Khamis with forming a new government on Wednesday, state news agency SANA reported.It gave no immediate reason for the...
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Watch US-led airstrikes cripple a strategic ISIS location
The US military has released a video that shows the anti-ISIS coalition eliminating an ISIS weigh station near Qayyarah, Iraq.The strikes occurred on June 11 as part of the anti-ISIS coalition's...
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A US-backed force has entered a critical ISIS town in northern Syria
A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has reportedly advanced into a Syrian town held by the Islamic State (IS) group.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on June 23...
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Hezbollah vows that 'as long as there is money in Iran, we will have money'
BEIRUT - Hezbollah’s leader tackled the recent battles southwest of Aleppo, where the party in recent days reportedly suffered its worst losses since entering the conflict, and called the flash point...
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Report: CIA weapons meant for Syrian rebels sold to the black market
(Reuters) - Weapons shipped into Jordan for Syrian rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black...
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Putin: Turkey says it's sorry for downing a Russian jet at the Syrian border...
MOSCOW (AP) — A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Turkey's president has apologized for the downing of a Russian military jet at the Syrian border.Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday...
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Turkey's Erdogan apologized to Putin for downing Russian jet near Syrian border
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin to express regret about Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane and asked the family of the pilot to "excuse us",...
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Jordan's closed borders are creating a humanitarian nightmare for Syrian...
Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's northeastern border with Syria are running out of food after a militant suicide attack prompted the army to shut the area, international relief workers...
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Cracks are beginning to show inside ISIS' shrinking caliphate
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - It was barely more than a squiggle, but the mark of a single letter sprayed overnight on a wall in the heart of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate was a daring act of...
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US: No change in Iran behavior in Syria since nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brett McGurk, US President Barack Obama's special envoy in the fight against Islamic State, said on Tuesday he has seen no "significant" change in Iran's behavior in Syria under...
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The world's 25 most fragile states
The Fund for Peace has released its annual ranking of the world's least-stable countries, now known as the Fragile State Index. The rankings are based on 12 metrics, including access to public...
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Putin and Erdogan are meeting in person for the first time since the downing...
Ankara (AFP) - The leaders of Turkey and Russia agreed on Wednesday to meet in person, during their first telephone conversation since a crisis erupted over the downing of a Russian plane last year,...
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Watch US-led airstrikes demolish a major ISIS fighting position
The US military has released a video that shows the anti-ISIS coalition eliminating an ISIS fighting position near a critical battle line near Manbij, Syria.Manbij has emerged as a critical front as it...
View ArticleEX-PENTAGON CHIEF: These are the 2 main reasons ISIS was born
Former Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert Gates recently stopped by Business Insider to talk about his new book "A Passion For Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform From Fifty Years of Public...
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ISIS just passed a major milestone, but the group looks a lot different than...
ISIS' "caliphate" has survived for two years.The terrorist group has been able to hold onto some of the territory in Iraq and Syria that it first seized in 2014, when its rampage across the Middle East...
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