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Here's how to trade a geopolitical shock
Geopolitical risk is creeping back into the markets.The Russian ruble and markets fell after US President Donald Trump's surprise strike on Syria, and US stocks retreated after the US bombed...
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Trump's policy on Syria emerges after he ordered a military strike on the...
WASHINGTON — Can threatening war crimes charges persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power? What about guaranteeing his safety in exile? These long-shot proposals are at the center of the...
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A US airstrike which killed 38 people allegedly hit a peaceful mosque in a...
US forces failed to take necessary precautions before launching a lethal drone strike in northern Syria last month that hit a mosque full of worshippers, three separate investigations have...
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Monitor says suspected US-led coalition airstrikes killed 23 people in...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A war monitor said air strikes, thought to be by planes from a U.S.-led military coalition, killed at least 23 people in two parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on...
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Stephen Colbert rips apart Trump over his embarrassing Syria blunder
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" had been on hiatus for the last 10 days, so there was a lot to catch up on when the host returned in full force on Monday night.He tackled not only the festivities...
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U.S.-allied Syrian groups already have a plan to govern Raqqa after ISIS is...
U.S.-allied militias in northern Syria announced on Tuesday the formation of a civilian council to govern Raqqa after their planned capture of the city from Islamic State militants.The Syrian...
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France says it will provide proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons
PARIS (Reuters) - French intelligence services will provide proof in the coming days that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in an attack on April 4, French Foreign...
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Senior Israel defense official: Syria's president carried out chemical attack...
The United States warned Israel two hours before two US warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against the Syrian regime’s Al Shayrat Airbase, a senior IDF official...
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How to lose every war in the Middle East
Make no mistake: After 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight the next versions of our ongoing wars.Not...
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France promises proof Assad is behind the Syrian chemical attack
PARIS (AP) — France says it will provide proof within days that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime carried out the April 4 chemical attack in Syria that killed at least 90 people.Speaking Wednesday...
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ISRAELI INTEL: Assad still has up to 3 tons of chemical weapons
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli defense officials said on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons.The assessment, based on Israeli intelligence, was...
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Global watchdog: There's 'incontrovertible' evidence sarin was used in Syria...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Sarin or a similar banned toxin was used in an attack in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 that killed nearly 90 people, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Wednesday.The...
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Syria put its jets under Russian protection, and the US risks all-out war if...
After having as many as 24 of its planes destroyed in a salvo of 59 cruise missiles from US Navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea on April 7, Syria has repositioned its jets to bases protected by Russian...
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How Bashar Assad rose from a comfortable childhood to become one of the...
Syrian President Bashar Assad has been widely accused of war crimes for the mass torture and killings carried out by his military throughout more than six years of civil war. Assad has managed to cling...
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MATTIS: 'No doubt' Syria still has chemical weapons
TEL AVIV, Israel — Syria still possesses chemical weapons, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in Israel on Friday, warning against the banned munitions being used again.At a news conference in Tel...
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Turkish army says 2 of their soldiers, 6 Kurdish militants killed in clash...
Two Turkish soldiers died and two more were wounded in a clash with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border on Friday, the armed forces said.The military later said...
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Syria's Assad says that Russian troops will not be fighting ISIS
Syrian President Bashar Assad says he is not considering asking Russia to send in the troops to help the government fight the Islamic State group.Russia, a key backer of the Assad regime, has been...
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Corbyn says a Labour government would stop all air strikes in Syria
LONDON — A Labour government would suspend British air strikes against targets in war-torn Syria, leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday.Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Corbyn said that if elected...
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Chinese jihadis' growing presence in Syria is stoking concern in Beijing
BEIRUT (AP) — Many don't speak Arabic and their role in Syria is little known to the outside world, but the Chinese fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria are organized, battled-hardened and...
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Russia seems to be intensifying its new Cold War on the west
President Donald Trump often said on the campaign trail that he'd likely "get along" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but a recent cruise missile strike in Syria seems to have put a wrench in...
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