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Doctors Without Borders: Airstrikes killed 13 in a northern Syria hospital
BEIRUT (AP) — A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and specializing in pediatrics in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed in a series of airstrikes over the weekend that...
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UN hears details of bombings, chemical weapons use, and suffering in Aleppo,...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Experts painted a graphic portrait of barrel bombings, attacks on medical facilities, chemical weapons use and the ongoing suffering inside the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo,...
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Here are 4 foreign policy challenges Hillary Clinton could botch
Hillary Clinton threw down a gauntlet worthy of a medieval knight when she attacked Donald Trump’s foreign policy competence in her much-noted speech in San Diego a couple of months ago. She bragged...
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This video lets you join F-22 pilots preparing for a night airstrike on ISIS
Filmed at Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, this clip shows F-22 pilots with the 90th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, preparing to launch at night for a...
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Here’s what we know about the Americans going overseas to fight ISIS
One in three foreign fighters combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is an American citizen, the majority of whom are also military veterans, according to a new report.Published on Aug. 9, by...
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A group of Syrian asylum-seekers built an app to help migrants navigate...
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a Syrian migrant arriving in Berlin, Munzer Khattab could barely say a word in German, let alone fill out a pile of forms in the language.So over the past...
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Pictures appear to show British special forces on the front lines in Syria
The first images of what appear to be British special forces operating on the ground in Syria have emerged, showing vehicles patrolling near the scene of an attack by Islamic State.The pictures were...
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There are more losers than winners in Syria
The battle for Aleppo has the Arab world, Middle East observers and Western policymakers on edge.In what is likely a turning point in the long Syrian civil war, a coalition of opposition fighters is...
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The US is hiring military contractors for operations in Syria
In an obscure yet publicly available report, the Pentagon has for the first time indicated that it was hiring military contractors for operations in Syria.In an investigation from The Daily Beast, the...
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Meet the 26-year-old Syrian refugee who took a gruelling 55-day journey from...
Ahmad Al-Rashid, a 26-year-old from Aleppo living in Buckinghamshire, is one of 5,000 Syrian refugees who have settled in the UK since being displaced by the on-going civil war.In September 2015, then...
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The 4 security challenges of the 'jihadist highway' on the border of Turkey...
The recent spate of ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Turkey and subsequent attempted coup, combined with foreign fighters’ incessant attempts to enter ISIS’s shrinking territory have kept Turkey’s...
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2 million people are without water in Syria's Aleppo
Two million people are without water as the battle for Aleppo between the Syrian government and opposition groups intensifies, heavily damaging the city's electric and water infrastructure, according...
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'Last doctors of Aleppo' write heartbreaking letter to Obama: 'We need action'
Aleppo, which has been beset by constant violence since 2012, and the site of unspeakable suffering from air strikes, ground fighting, and even chemical weapons attacks, has become a humanitarian...
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Watch US-led airstrikes eradicate an ISIS tactical unit
On July 26, coalition military forces in support of Operation Inherent Resolve continued their hunt against ISIS militants with eight airstrikes near Manbij, Syria.A press release from US Central...
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US-led forces executed the largest single airstrike of the year against ISIS'...
In one fell swoop, a series of aerial strafing and bombing runs destroyed 83 oil tankers belonging to ISIS forces in Syria.USA TODAY reports that after a pilot witnessed a gaggle of vehicles in the...
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ISIS has kidnapped 2,000 civilians to use as 'human shields'
A report verified on Friday by US-backed forces and a separate human rights organization claimed that Islamic State militants in the city of Manbij, Syria had kidnapped around 2,000 civilians to use as...
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PICTURES: Syrians celebrate being liberated from ISIS with football, shaving,...
The northern Syrian town of Manbij was this week liberated from ISIS after an extended battle between the terrorist group and Kurdish and Arab fighters.Reuters photographers were on hand to witness the...
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Russia's military says it has started naval exercises in the Mediterranean...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's military says it has started exercises in the eastern Mediterranean near Syria to test the navy's ability to respond to "crisis situations of a terrorist nature."The Defense...
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Rebels have assassinated a high-ranking Syrian general
BEIRUT – Rebels have assassinated a regime general in the outskirts of the normally-secure Suweida province in southern Syria.The Army of Free Tribes—a Jordanian-backed tribal coalition active in the...
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'This is what hell feels like': CNN war correspondent says she's 'never seen...
Clarissa Ward, a CNN correspondent who has reported on wars for more than a decade, described the "hell" that is Syria in powerful testimony to the UN Security Council earlier this month.Ward said that...
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