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Iraq paramilitaries have reach Iraq's border with Syria, cutting off ISIS...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's mostly Iran-backed Shiite paramilitary forces reached the border with Syria on Monday after securing a string of small villages west of Mosul, according to a spokesman for the...
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'Jihadist drug' Captagon seized for first time in France
Paris (AFP) - French customs officials said Tuesday that they had intercepted 135 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of Captagon, dubbed the "jihadists' drug," at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport this year, a...
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Nikki Haley shows another side of Trump's 'America first' mantra
BAB AL-HAWA, Turkey-Syria Border (AP) — Nikki Haley crouched low in the trailer of an 18-wheeler taping up a box of lentils and wheat for besieged Syrians, her hands-on diplomacy a world apart from the...
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Putin says he's certain that Syria's Assad didn't use chemical weapons
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed on Tuesday any suggestion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces were behind a chemical attack that killed scores of people in Idlib province in...
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Syrian rebels say Russian jets blocked their attack on Iranian-backed militias
AMMAN (Reuters) - Western-backed Syrian rebels said on Wednesday that Russian jets attacked them as they tried to advance against Iran-backed militias in a region of Syria's southeastern desert.They...
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British forces used a drone to stop an ISIS execution in Syria
A Royal Air Force Reaper MQ9A remote piloted aircraft interrupted a planned public execution that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attempted to carry out earlier this month, giving the would-be victims...
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A showdown could be looming between the US, Iran, and the Assad regime at the...
In April, Syrian rebel fighters and their US special-forces trainers repulsed an ISIS attack in an hours-long battle marked by suicide bombers and coalition airstrikes.The battle took place at al Tanf...
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Turkey says US arming Syrian Kurdish militia 'extremely dangerous,' urges...
Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Tuesday said the US arming of a Kurdish militia force deemed a terror group by Ankara was "extremely dangerous," and urged Washington to reverse its "mistake.""Such steps are...
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PENTAGON OFFICIAL: The assault on the ISIS capital will 'begin in the coming...
The long-awaited offensive by U.S.-backed Syrian forces to liberate the self-proclaimed Islamic State capital of Raqqa, Syria, will begin in days, Pentagon officials told the Washington Examiner...
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Trump is assembling all the pieces he needs to go after Iran
It is not always clear what President Donald Trump is thinking on any particular issue.On Iran, however, Trump appears to have decidedly hardline leanings.He repeatedly called the nuclear deal "the...
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If Trump wants a fight in the Middle East, Iran will give him one
As President Donald Trump’s recent Middle East tour demonstrated, the one thing uniting the United States, Israel, and much of the Arab world is opposition to Iran’s regional activities.Whereas the...
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Rebel forces say they shot down a Syrian jet near Damascus
Two Syrian rebels and a war monitor said a Syrian military plane had come down about 50 km east of Damascus on Monday in rebel-held territory near a frontline with government-held land."We have brought...
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US-led coalition air strike kills 21 Syrian civilians fleeing Raqqa, human...
Beirut (AFP) - A US-led coalition air strike killed 21 civilians on Monday as they tried to escape the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The...
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US-backed forces have entered ISIS-held Raqqa in Syria
Hazima (Syria) (AFP) - The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces broke into the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa on Tuesday after declaring a new phase in their fight for the city.The drive...
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Secret math classes and electronic dead-drops: How Syrians in Raqqa resisted...
Beirut (AFP) - Secret dates, dead-drops and "bullet-free" maths lessons: These are just some of the ways residents of the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa resisted years of jihadist rule.IS...
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The US-led coalition destroyed more pro-Assad forces at a growing hotspot in...
US-led coalition forces destroyed what were reportedly pro-Syrian regime forces near al Tanf in southeast Syria on Tuesday, Operation Inherent Resolve officials said in a release.According to the...
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US says Raqqa fight will 'only accelerate' as ISIS loses in Iraq
BEIRUT (AP) — A US official says the fight for Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital, will "only accelerate" as the militants lose their grip on Iraq's Mosul.Brett McGurk, the US envoy for...
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As strongholds fall ISIS is rushing to funnel money out of Syria and Iraq
With the territory it controls diminishing by the day and its sources of income increasingly squeezed, Islamic State is attempting to channel the group’s assets out of Iraq and Syria in order to secure...
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The assault on the ISIS capital has officially begun
A coalition of anti-Islamic State groups backed by the United States has officially begun its assault on the jihadist-held city of Raqqah in northern Syria. Raqqah has been controlled by jihadist...
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US aircraft shoots down large drone that dropped bombs near coalition troops...
A US aircraft shot down a large drone piloted by pro-regime forces after it dropped "one of several weapons" near coalition forces in Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday.The Pentagon...
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