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Syrian jets flying close to US Special Forces 'encouraged to leave' by F-22s
Twice in the last few days, Syrian jets performing air strikes close to where US SOF are operating in northeastern Syria caused coalition aircraft to scramble.On Aug. 18, US jets were dispatched to...
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A rebel group's split with Al Qaeda could put it one step closer to achieving...
One rebel group in Syria just denounced its terrorist ties, and its leaders are already trying to rehabilitate its image in the media.Jabhat al-Nusra's split from Al Qaeda is largely thought to be a...
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Iran: Russia showed 'ungentlemanly' attitude using in our air bases, will...
Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for launching airstrikes on Syria for the time being, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, just hours after the Iranian defense minister...
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Kurds to launch an assault to kick the Syrian army out of its last stronghold...
HASAKA, Syria (Reuters) - The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka after calling on...
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Turkey to 'completely cleanse' its border of ISIS after 54 died in a suicide...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey vowed on Monday to "completely cleanse" Islamic State militants from its border region, after a suspected suicide bomber with links to the group killed 54 people,...
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Report: In less than a year, Russia has killed more civilians than ISIS
A new report from a United Nations-sanctioned human rights group finds that Russian airstrikes have killed more Syrian civilians than ISIS.Over a span of 305 days, beginning September 30, 2015 and...
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Stopping the cycle of violent extremism in Syria has nothing to do with religion
Syria is suffering from the seemingly never-ending cycle of civil war and terrorism.The country has become a recruiting hotspot for ISIS, the group also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh, ever...
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Obama reportedly declined to enforce red line in Syria after Iran threatened...
President Barack Obama infamously drew a "red line" with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria only to back away from it, and we now know why.Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon, who...
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Syria's Kurds have accused Turkey of assassinating a top military commander
BEIRUT – Syrian Kurds have accused Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) of being behind the assassination of Abdel Sattar al-Jader, the head of a newly-formed military council backed by...
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US: We will 'defend our forces' against Syrian, Russian war planes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Syria has been warned not to fly warplanes in areas where American troops are advising Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said on Monday. But it...
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Operation launched to uproot ISIS militants along the Turkey-Syria border
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish special forces units supported by warplanes from the US-led coalition launched an operation in northern Syria to wipe out Islamic State militants along the Turkey-Syria...
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Turkey has launched a major push into Syria against both ISIS and the Kurds
KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish special forces, tanks and jets backed by planes from the U.S.-led coalition launched their first co-ordinated offensive into Syria on Wednesday to try to drive...
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Turkish forces and US-backed Syrian rebels have captured a key ISIS border...
Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish and US forces, have captured the ISIS border city of Jarablus in northern Syria.The capture of Jarablus serves as a major blow to ISIS, the group also known as the...
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Biden: Syrian Kurdish forces must pull back across the Euphrates to get US...
ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States has made it clear to Syrian Kurdish forces that they must return to east of the Euphrates river after seizing control of the Syrian town of Manbij to retain U.S....
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Report: Assad regime likely kept undeclared chemical weapons
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said its inspectors found traces of deadly nerve agents in multiple locations across Syria despite the commitment by President Bashar al Assad’s...
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Russia may set up camp in the base the US and NATO use to bomb ISIS
After Russia's short-lived air campaign out of Iran's Hamedan air base, Turkey's prime minister has said that the Russian air force could possibly operate out of Turkey's Incirlik base, where US and...
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Turkey's invasion has started a territory race in northern Syria — and ISIS...
A new contest is raging in northern Syria. This time, however, it's not a battle but a race.On August 24, Turkish tanks and soldiers, backed by U.S. coalition air strikes, crossed the Syrian border to...
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Here's why Turkey finally decided to go to war in Syria
The United States may finally have a professional military ally against the Islamic State in Syria. The Turkish-led assault on the northern Syria town of Jarablus, which was held by the Islamic State...
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US F-22 pilots describe their conflict with Syrian jets while protecting US...
In an interview with USA Today, the pilots of the F-22s who chased away Syrian jets bombing close to Kurdish forces with embedded US advisers revealed that the Syrian pilots had no idea they were being...
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Kerry and Lavrov meet to finalise details of Syria cooperation deal
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva on Friday to try to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement on fighting...
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