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A London postman who became an ISIS soldier has been accused of murdering...
A former London postman who joined Isis has been charged with involvement in a mass execution in Syria.Harry Sarfo, who is already serving three years in a German prison for terror offences, was not...
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Armored US combat vehicles have been spotted pouring into Syria
Photos and video footage that surfaced on Twitter and YouTube this week appear to show a convoy of flatbed trucks loaded with U.S.-made MRAP, M-ATVs, and up-armored bulldozers in Syria, Military Times...
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The fight with ISIS is far from over
The fight against the Islamic State seems to be going well.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi recently declared victory in Mosul after the city was finally retaken. The same day, the United States...
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Army general says the US didn't halt CIA program arming Syrian rebels to...
A U.S. decision to halt a CIA program equipping and training certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not done as a concession to Assad ally Russia, a top...
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Mattis on ISIS leader Baghdadi: 'Until I see his body, I am going to assume...
Amid ISIS' defeat in the Iraqi city of Mosul and ongoing fighting in its self-declared capital in Raqqa, Syria, the fate of its leader, Abu Bark al Baghdadi, remains unknown.Russia said in late June...
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There is no Trump doctrine, and there will never be one
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him," Dwight D. Eisenhower observed in 1952.Managing the future's course is no...
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Russia just sent its military police to Syria to monitor the de-escalation zones
Russia has deployed military police to monitor two safe zones being established in Syria, it was announced on Monday, with officials touting it as a new era of US cooperation.Senior commander Sergei...
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US Special Operations Command chief claims '60,000 to 70,000' ISIS fighters...
During a discussion at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, Army Gen. Raymond Thomas, head of US Special Operations Command, cited estimates saying that the US-led fight against ISIS had killed 60,000...
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Marine veteran killed while fighting ISIS with the Kurds
A former Marine who secretly traveled to Syria earlier this year to battle the Islamic State was killed while fighting for a Kurdish militia, his father said Tuesday.David Taylor Sr. told The...
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Trump blasts Obama's 2013 'red line' for Russia, Iran's control of Syria
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted former President Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian civil war and Syrian President Bashar Assad in a joint press conference with Lebanon's Prime Minister...
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Lebanon's Hezbollah is gaining valuable experience in a tough border battle...
JUROUD ARSAL, Lebanon (Reuters) - The barren, rocky hilltops that form Hezbollah's new front line with jihadists at the Syrian-Lebanese border were tough to capture and supply. Hezbollah commander Hajj...
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Trump apparently revealed a secret CIA program in a tweet
President Donald Trump seemed to blow the lid on the cancellation of a covert CIA program in Syria when he tweeted about it this week. But intelligence agencies still won’t talk about it.The program...
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Putin signs deal that allows Russian forces to stay in Syria for the next...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying a deal with the Syrian government allowing Russia to keep its air base in Syria for almost half a century, official documents...
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US-backed Syrian fighters now control almost half of ISIS' self-declared...
RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Thursday as U.S.-backed Syrian fighters captured almost half of the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa.But the push into the city in northern...
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US-backed forces have retaken half of Raqqa from ISIS — Here's what the...
US-backed forces in Syria announced Thursday that they have captured nearly half of ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, Associated Press reported. The Syrian Democratic Forces — largely made up of...
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The battle for ISIS' stronghold in Syria is getting more intense
Raqa (Syria) (AFP) - As Islamic State group fighters steadily lose chunks of their Syrian bastion Raqa to a US-backed force, the jihadists are ramping up the ferocity of their counter-attacks.The...
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US Navy pilot explains how he shot down a Syrian fighter jet
On June 18, a US Navy pilot shot down a Syrian fighter jet south of Tabqah after it dropped bombs near US-backed forces, also known as Syrian Democratic Forces, according to US Central Command. It was...
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The Clooneys are sending 3,000 Syrian refugee children to school in Lebanon
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says around 200,000 Syrian...
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Donald Trump is pushing America's special forces past the breaking point
With little policy guidance or public attention, the Donald Trump administration has further expanded former President Barack Obama’s use of lethal counterterrorism operations in nonbattlefield...
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The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier just hit the Persian Gulf to hammer whatever...
After about two months of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier sitting off Syria's coast to support ground operations against ISIS, the USS Nimitz has arrived in the Persian Gulf to hammer...
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