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Syrians were finally able to leave a part of Damascus that had been besieged...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Besieged residents and rebels began leaving the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Friday, Reuters witnesses said, as an evacuation to end one of the longest stand-offs since Syria's...
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Life expectancy in Syria has dropped by 6 years
The Arab Spring uprisings that spread across the Middle East in 2011 eventually led to regime changes, civil society crackdowns, and several bloody conflicts.More than five years later, new data shows...
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The US will accept its 10,000th Syrian refugee for resettlement this week
The US will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the US ambassador to Jordan said Sunday, after meeting families headed to California...
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Turkey is finally bombing Syria, but it’s not hitting who the US wants
Turkey has a name for its newly launched military incursion into neighboring Syria: Operation Euphrates Shield.It sums up Ankara’s overriding priority when it comes to the war there: preventing Kurdish...
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Obama's biggest achievement in Syria fell short — and Assad is rubbing it in...
The Obama administration has touted its negotiations to remove chemical weapons from Syria as a major diplomatic achievement.But a new report from the UN Security Council found that the regime of...
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Afghanistan has arrested an Iranian official for recruiting Shiite fighters...
BEIRUT – Afghanistan has arrested an Iranian official for recruiting Shiites to fight on behalf of the Syrian regime, according to media reports.An Iranian outlet affiliated with the country’s...
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Turkey pushes deeper into Syria, confronting more US-backed force, less ISIS
BEIRUT/KARKAMIS, Turkey — Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said it was concerned the battle for territory had...
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UN pays tens of millions to the Assad regime under its Syria aid program
The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of an aid programme that critics fear is increasingly at...
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Non-Western powers are muscling in on Middle East as the US struggles
It has long been clear that the Obama administration will hand its successor a dangerous mess in the Middle East, centering on Syria and emanating outward. Is it now ceding so much initiative that it...
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France says Turkish action in Syria risks escalating the conflict
PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's military push into northern Syria risks causing an escalation of the conflict, French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, calling on all parties to end fighting and...
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Turkey's invasion of northern Syria is a turning point in the anti-ISIS fight
Key Takeaway:Turkey is unraveling America’s anti-ISIS partner in northern Syria in order to position itself as a major power broker in planned operations to retake Raqqa City. Turkish Armed Forces...
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3 US allies are now fighting each other in northern Syria
The US military called for an end to clashes between Turkey, Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters as the NATO ally pushed deeper into Syria, bringing the diverging priorities of the various American...
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Russia claims it killed top ISIS official Adnani in Syria
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed one of Islamic State's most prominent leaders, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.The ministry said that Adnani was one of...
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Turkey refuses truce with US-backed Syrian Kurds, despite international pressure
KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey will not agree a truce with Kurdish militias in Syria as it considers them terrorists, officials said on Wednesday, after strains emerged with the United States over...
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US: Russia's claim it killed top ISIS leader Adnani is 'a joke'
Moscow's claim that Russian airstrikes in Syria had killed prominent Islamic State leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is false, US defense officials told Reuters on Wednesday."Russia's claim is a joke," one...
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Germany's military is investigating 64 suspected extremist Islamists within...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on...
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A UN report holds Assad responsible for chemical attacks
A United Nations mandated investigatory body has officially implicated the Syrian Air Force in chemical weapon (CW) attacks in Syria.The report also accuses the Islamic State (IS) of one CW attack –...
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More Turkish tanks enter Syria in new front
Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight Islamic State extremists, opening a new front after its intervention last month against the group,...
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ISIS is losing territory on all fronts — here's what the group leaves behind
There's no question that ISIS forces are losing ground in territories in Syria and Iraq— after making so many enemies from several countries and across numerous ethnic lines, the group might have bit...
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Turkey PM: We will never allow 'artificial state' in northern Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will never allow the formation of an "artificial state" in northern Syria, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday, referring to the U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters whose...
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