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At this point, the US would have to be ‘operationally, tactically brilliant’...
On Friday, Obama is set to meet his top military advisers to discuss possible kinetic solutions to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brutal Russian-backed bombing campaign, Reuters reports.Obama has...
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Putin ratifies deal on 'indefinite' Syria deployment
Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved a law ratifying Moscow's deal with Syria to deploy its forces in the country indefinitely, in a move seen as firming their long-term...
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Brother of refugee who planned airport attack says he was radicalized in...
BERLIN, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The Syrian refugee suspected of planning to bomb a Berlin airport was radicalized only after arriving in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing the...
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How Johnnie Walker whiskey is helping refugees
Who best to try to change the narrative around Syrian refugees? A new film by a Sundance-winning director to raise donations for the international NGO Mercy Corps has been funded not by a traditional...
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Syrian rebels have seized the town where ISIS promised its final...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from Islamic State on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic...
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ISIS just got pushed out of the town where they prophesied the battle for the...
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces have captured the symbolically significant town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, the factions said Sunday morning.A commander of the Syrian opposition...
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Britain and US may increase sanctions on Assad and his supporters over 'war...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the United States said on Sunday they were considering additional sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his supporters, and called on Russia to help end...
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Donald Trump is repeating Syrian President Bashar Assad's talking points
During this election cycle, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies are fighting terrorism in Syria."I don't like Assad at...
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A Russian student who tried to go to Syria to be with an ISIS fighter she...
Moscow (AFP) - Police in bullet-proof vests guard a military court for the terrorism trial of Varvara Karaulova, a slim 20-year-old with braided hair who clutches a page of handwritten notes.Karaulova...
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A high-ranking Hezbollah commander in charge of an elite unit was killed in...
BEIRUT – A high-ranking Hezbollah commander has been killed in Aleppo, the latest casualty suffered by the Lebanese party fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.A pro-Hezbollah...
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Dozens of Indonesians who joined ISIS in Syria have returned home with combat...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Dozens of Indonesians who joined Islamic State in Syria have returned home with combat experience and pose a major threat to the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation, the police...
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Airstrike on rebel-held Aleppo kills 14 members of one family
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fourteen members of one family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its drive to...
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Russian embassy trolls US and Britain: Grozny today is 'solution we're all...
Russia's embassy in the US trolled US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson in a tweet Monday, comparing Russia's bombing campaign in the Chechen capital of Grozny 16...
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ISIS' caliphate is shrinking, and the terror group is about to lose one of...
ISIS is likely close to losing its Iraq capital, and it's indicative of a larger problem for the terrorist group — analysis from the IHS Conflict Monitor shows that ISIS' territory has been shrinking...
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RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER: Russia and Syria are halting airstrikes on Aleppo
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and Syrian warplanes on Tuesday halted their airstrikes on Syria's besieged city of Aleppo in preparation for a temporary truce that Moscow has announced for later in the week,...
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Russia has muscled the US out of Syria
Russian and Syrian forces appeared to have let up on bombing besieged Aleppo on Tuesday, possibly allowing civilians and rebel groups to flee the city.While citizens and combatants in Aleppo would...
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Russia may be getting ready 'to level Aleppo to the ground'
Russia announced on Tuesday that it would halt airstrikes on Syria's largest city, Aleppo, in preparation for an eight-hour cease-fire to be implemented later this week.Russian Defense Minister Sergei...
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ASSAD: Syria's government must rid Aleppo of 'terrorist' rebels to protect...
ZURICH (Reuters) - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told a Swiss TV station that government forces had to rid the city of Aleppo of rebel "terrorists" under its constitutional mandate to protect the...
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Erdogan: If Syrians flee Aleppo, Turkey can take in 1 million
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday at least one million Syrians could flee to Turkey if there is an exodus from the city of Aleppo, the rebel-held east of which is currently under siege...
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Syrian president's wife says she was offered a deal to flee Syria
The wife of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview her husband's foes had offered her the chance to flee Syria in order to try to shake confidence in him, but that she had not left the...
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