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Syrians evacuated from Damascus after rebels agree to leave
(Reuters) — An agreement between the Syrian government and rebels to evacuate an opposition-held district of Damascus was completed on Monday as more insurgents left the area, Qaboun, Syrian state TV...
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Mesmerizing maps show the global flow of refugees over the last 15 years
President Trump's administration has made repeated claims that its proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders.But what does that flow actually look like compared...
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'A new level of depravity': The US is accusing Syria of killing thousands of...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday accused the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the...
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The Syrian government has denied using crematoriums to burn thousands of...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government on Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of detainees' remains, saying the claim...
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US-backed forces are now just 3 miles from the capital of the Islamic State
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia has advanced to within four kilometres north and east of the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa, a spokesperson and monitor said Tuesday.The...
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Air strikes on Islamic State in Syria kill 30 — 12 of them children
Dawn air strikes on a Syrian border town in the Islamic State-held eastern province of Deir al-Zor killed at least 30 people, most of them civilians including more than a dozen children, a war...
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Trump administration hits Syria with new sanctions
The Trump administration has hit a new group of Syrian people and companies with sanctions over human rights abuses. Among those named are cousins of President Bashar Assad.The Treasury Department...
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The US tells UN Security Council that Venezuela crisis is worsening and says...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States called Wednesday's first-ever U.N. Security Council consultations on Venezuela because the crisis is getting worse and the Trump administration wants to prevent...
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The US just struck an Assad-supported militia in Syria after it rushed...
The US military carried out an air strike on Thursday against militia supported by the Syrian government that posed a threat to US and US-backed Syrian fighters in the country's south, US officials...
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Russia and Syria are furious over a US airstrike that killed forces loyal to...
A US military strike in Syria on Thursday was "government terrorism" and caused a massacre, Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari said on Friday, while Russia called it an unacceptable breach...
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Mattis: US-led coalition will encircle ISIS fighters as part of 'annihilation...
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday the US-led coalition was now encircling ISIS fighters in their strongholds in a tactical shift before starting a military campaign to destroy them."By...
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ISIS' 'minister of war' has been killed in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in the north of the country, where the Russian-backed government forces...
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Russia is using Syria as a testing ground for some of its most advanced weapons
Russia seems to be using Syria as a testing ground and way to advertise some of its most-advanced weaponry, experts say.For the last couple of years, Moscow has almost gone out if its way to broadcast...
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Syrian jets are deploying back to the same airfield the US struck with...
The Syrian military has reportedly started moving aircraft into the same airfield that the US attacked with 59 Tomahawk missiles in April.Syrian forces began redistributing Su-22 and MiG-23 jets into...
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War monitor: US airstrikes in Syrian town have killed 100 including 40 children
Air strikes since Thursday evening have killed more than 100 people including children and other family members of Islamic State fighters in al-Mayadin, a town held by the jihadists near Deir al-Zor in...
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Pentagon: US service member killed in Northern Syria crash
A U.S. service member died after being hurt when a vehicle rolled over in northern Syria, the U.S. military said on Friday.No further details were immediately available, according to a statement from...
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MERKEL: Germany can no longer 'fully rely' on the US
German chancellor Angela Merkel distanced herself from the US and the UK during a campaign event in Munich on Sunday."The times in which [Germany] could fully rely on others are partly over. I have...
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An exiled Syrian journalist tells us what it was like to write under Assad
Even before he started covering the civil war in Syria, Issam Khoury was under constant threat for what he wrote.After growing up in the western Syrian city of Latakia, the future journalist started...
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Maj. David Palka had seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, but roughly 90% of the Marines under his command, tasked with setting up a remote fire base in northern Iraq in 2016, had only heard the...
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The US is helping allies hide civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS
The United States' coalition partners in the war against the Islamic State are responsible for at least 80 confirmed civilian deaths from airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. military...
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