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Obama's hesitant approach to foreign policy resulted in the biggest stain on...
Barack Obama’s impending departure from the White House has put many Americans in an elegiac mood.Despite an average approval rating of only 48 percent— the lowest, surprisingly, of our last five...
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A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a truck attack has been arrested in...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago has been arrested on suspicion of seeking funds from Islamic State to drive truck bombs into a crowd, a German state...
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Syrian attack on rebels leaves Damascus residents scrambling for water
BEIRUT (AP) — Residents of Damascus are scrambling for clean water after the government attacked rebels holding the city's main source in a nearby valley, producing an outage that has stretched on for...
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Migrants document their trek to safety by taking selfies along the way
As of September, an estimated 11 million Syrians had fled their homes since the war started in March 2011. They escaped to neighboring countries like Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, as well...
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Thousands of people are returning to Aleppo despite freezing weather and...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the...
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The BBC has been criticised for releasing a 'Real Housewives of ISIS' skit
A BBC sketch satirising British women who have left to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group has attracted controversy and praise alike online.The...
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The US dropped more than 26,000 bombs in 2016 — here is where they went
For a nation that isn’t officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko,...
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Here are our predictions for 2017
As 2016 comes to an end, the tumult of the past year shows the truly unpredictable state of world affairs.Brexit in the UK and the election of Donald Trump in the US showed the inherent failures of...
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How Putin engineered Russia's return to superpower status
“The Russians can’t change us or significantly weaken us,” Barack Obama said on Dec. 16, during his final press conference as president. “They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their...
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Assad says the Syrian government is ready to negotiate on 'everything' —...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian truce brokered by Russia and Turkey was under growing strain on Monday as rebels vowed to respond to government violations and President Bashar al-Assad said the army would...
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US special ops carry out raid deep inside ISIS territory
A group of elite American special operations troops on Sunday carried out a ground raid deep inside Syria to capture ISIS operatives.US troops inserted by helicopter spent roughly 90 minutes on the...
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Putin might be hoping for 'another Syria' in Afghanistan
A Russia-led initiative involving China and Pakistan that seeks a political settlement to Afghanistan’s civil war has the makings of a diplomatic alliance that could supplant the United States as the...
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Top Senators will introduce legislation to impose more sanctions on Russia...
Senior U.S. Republican and Democratic senators will introduce legislation on Tuesday seeking to impose a wide range of sanctions on Russia over its cyber activities and actions in Syria and Ukraine.The...
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Syria is on the brink and here's how it got there
After nearly six years of uprising, conflict and chaos, the partition of Syria is imminent.President Bashar al-Assad will of course rail against it; his crucial ally Iran will probably resist too, and...
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Famous photo of drowned Syrian toddler boosted fundraising for refugees 100-fold
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An iconic photo of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up dead on a Turkish beach had a greater impact on fundraising efforts for Syrian refugees than...
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Syria says Israeli strikes hit near airport west of Damascus
Syria says Israel has launched missiles that hit near a military airport west of Damascus, triggering a fire.In a statement carried on the official news agency SANA, the military says the missiles that...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad linked to chemical attacks for first time
(Reuters) - International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict,...
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Trump's secretary of state pick has a plan for fighting ISIS that has the...
During his confirmation hearing earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state articulated his strategy for defeating ISIS in Syria — and it sounded very similar to what...
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Russia: Trump administration representatives will be invited to attend Syria...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister says that Moscow is inviting representatives of the incoming U.S. administration to attend upcoming Syria talks in Kazakhstan.Sergey Lavrov said at a news...
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Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard just took a secret trip to Syria
Democratic congresswoman and Iraq war veteran Tulsi Gabbard recently traveled to Syria's capital, Foreign Policy reported on Wednesday.Gabbard's spokeswoman described her trip as a "fact-finding"...
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