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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the US's 'annihilation...
During a press briefing on May 19, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described a tactical shift in the US-led effort against ISIS in Syria and Iraq."By taking the time up front to surround these locations,...
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'The war was my childhood left among the ruins': Through her diary, this...
When Myriam Rawick was only eight years old, she started keeping a diary about the war that was unfolding in her native Syria.As feuding forces waged battles in her hometown of Aleppo, Myriam's family...
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The US, Russia, and Iran are edging closer to an all-out clash in Syria
This weekend, for the fourth time in a month, US-led coalition forces clashed with forces backing the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The incident — the downing of a Syrian army jet in...
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Australia suspends airstrikes in Syria after US shoots down Syrian army jet
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Tuesday it was suspending air strikes into Syria following the U.S. downing of a Syrian military jet on Sunday and Russia's subsequent threat against U.S.-led...
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US shoots down a pro-regime drone in another escalation of its involvement in...
US Central Command said on Tuesday a US aircraft shot down a drone operated by pro-Assad regime forces northeast of al Tanf, an outpost in Syria's southeast desert where the US-led coalition has...
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The US, Russia, and Iran are drawing new red lines in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia, Iran and the United States are drawing new red lines for each other in Syria, with Moscow warning Washington on Monday it would treat any U.S.-led coalition planes in its...
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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 their proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders.In honor of World Refugee Day, observed on June...
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'I want to liberate my city': Syrian fighters return to their hometown of...
Khalil al-Hussein fled the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa 18 months ago, but now he is back and fighting to help oust the jihadists from his hometown.The 25-year-old is one of several...
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US-backed forces say they just came under 'major attack' by Syrian and...
Western-backed Syrian rebels holding a strategic swathe of the desert southeast stretching to the Iraqi border said they came under major attack on Tuesday from government forces and allied...
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Syrians fear new turmoil in Raqqa once ISIS is defeated
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces are closing in on Islamic State in Raqqa, but local Syrians who have escaped the battlefield are worried about what comes after the fight.Dozens of them have...
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Russia just threatened to target US jets in Syria — but the last thing it...
In the wake of a US F/A-18 shooting down a Syrian Su-22, Russia issued strong warnings to the US by threatening to target US and US-led coalition planes in Syria.But a head-on, conventional fight with...
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Russian media says the US 'lies about self-defense' after downing Syrian jet
When US forces shot down a Syrian warplane for the first time in the country's six-year war, both Russian and US media outlets pontificated over what the latest move could mean for US-Russia relations...
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US reportedly tells Turkey it will take weapons from Kurdish militia after...
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told his Turkish counterpart that weapons provided to the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria would be taken back once Islamic State was defeated, Turkish...
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France's Macron does not see a clear successor for Assad
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials said Thursday that U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has written to his Turkish counterpart, reassuring him that arms provided to Syrian Kurdish fighters would...
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Here's how a US F/A-18 shot down the first manned enemy plane since 1999
New details have emerged from the downing of a Russian-made Su-22 by a US F/A-18E Super Hornet over Syria.The Pentagon said that after Syrian jets had bombed US-backed forces fighting ISIS in Syria and...
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Trump called Mexico the 2nd-deadliest country in the world, but the numbers...
President Donald Trump asserted that Mexico was ranked the "second deadliest country in the world" on Thursday evening and cited "drug trade" as the cause.When homicide numbers are compared on a...
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US taxpayers are helping the Syrian regime in a strategic city
Almost every weekday, tons of lentils, salt, oil and wheat flour are loaded onto an Ilyusin-76 cargo plane at an airport in Jordan.Russian contract pilots then fly nearly 400 miles across the Syrian...
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Images of people breaking their Ramadan fast in a ruined Syrian town are...
Pictures of a colourful Ramadan iftar dinner taking place amid the rubble in the Syrian town of Douma have been widely shared online as a symbol of resilience in the face of death and...
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7 crazy photos of US Marines in Syria shelling ISIS with artillery
As US-backed Syrian Defense Forces clear ground around Raqqa, recently liberating roughly 386 square miles from Islamic State control, a Marine artillery battery is hard at work, shelling the...
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If ISIS' 'caliph' really is dead, here's who is likely to replace him as leader
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - If Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is confirmed dead, he is likely to be succeeded by one of his top two lieutenants, both of whom were army officers under late Iraqi...
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