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US-backed forces just won a key victory in a heavily contested part of Syria
US-backed forces have now seized control of almost 70 percent of Manbij in northern Syria from Islamic State after making rapid advances over the past two days, a spokesman said on Sunday.Syria...
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5 people were killed after a Russian helicopter was shot down in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Monday said that Russian military personnel on board a helicopter shot down in Syria on Monday were dead, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.The helicopter, with five...
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Rebels have launched a major assault to try and break the government siege on...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebel fighters have launched a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to reopen supply lines after the army and its allies tightened their siege...
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'We will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes' — ISIS calls on...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday."Listen Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes...
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A Syrian child actor who appeared in a rebel-made sitcom was killed in Aleppo
The sitcom is a little like "I Love Lucy," starring a comic housewife who gets into shenanigans and bickers with her husband. Except children play all the roles. And it all takes place in one of the...
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Here's what to do now that containing the Syrian crisis has failed
Attacks across the Western world—including most recently in Nice, but also of course in Brussels, Paris, San Bernardino, and elsewhere—highlight the growing threat from extremism, with Syria as its...
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Rescuers: Toxic gas was dropped over Syrian town where Russian helicopter was...
BEIRUT — A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday that a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was...
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Italian police arrested a Syrian suspected of trying to join militants
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested a Syrian man in the northern city of Genoa on Wednesday on suspicion he was planning to travel to his home country to join Islamist militants.Police said in a...
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Human rights group: Assad's forces bombed hospitals in Aleppo's 'worst week'
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes, a U.S.-based rights group said on...
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Russia claims Syrian rebels used chemical weapons in Aleppo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian military informed the United States that rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo launched an attack using toxic substances at 19:05 on Aug. 2, Interfax news agency reported...
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ISIS has a unit tasked with building a global terror network
A detained Islamic State recruit unveiled the existence of an internal intelligence unit tasked with identifying terrorists who can be deployed abroad to carry out the group’s jihadist attacks across...
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The Syrian revolution is 'unequivocally in the balance,' and it is playing...
The Syrian civil war is as confusing and opaque as it is sadistic and bloody. On one side stands Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a barbarous tyrant backed by Iran and Russia, Hizbullah, and Shi'ite...
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Air strikes believed to be Russian hit two displaced persons' camps in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes believed carried out by Russian warplanes hit two displaced persons' camps west of Aleppo and near the Turkish border on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Besieged Syrians in Aleppo are burning tires in a desperate attempt to blind...
Syria's Aleppo province has long been the seat of intense fighting between Syrian rebels, some of whom the US back, and the Syrian regime backed by Russia.Numerous reports of egregious bombings on...
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Russia may be preparing a 'long-term, game-changing move' with Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to again be embracing his old friend Russian President Vladimir Putin as he continues to consolidate power after last month's failed military...
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Watch US-led airstrikes obliterate a critical ISIS fighting position
On July 16, coalition military forces in support of Operation Inherent Resolve continued their hunt against ISIS militants with seven airstrikes near Manbij, Syria.A press release from US Central...
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IS has been 'almost completely' ousted from the Syrian city of Manbij
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed forces trying to oust Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Manbij took "almost complete control" of the city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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This map shows what different countries view as the greatest threat to the world
Different cultures span the globe — and with that comes different sentiments about fear.To determine what global fears are, the World Economic Forum conducted a survey in fall 2015 to determine what...
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Syria's opposition is on the verge of one of the most 'surprising' victories...
A nearly monthlong government siege of Syria's largest city is on the verge of collapse after a week of heavy fighting in northern and eastern Aleppo led to the defeat of pro-regime forces by a...
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Iranian media: Hezbollah is sending elite troops to a pivotal Syrian battlefield
BEIRUT – Hezbollah has deployed its elite fighting unit to southwestern Aleppo after rebel forces over the weekend broke the regime’s siege on the opposition-held eastern quarters of Syria’s divided...
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