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US-backed commander in Syria says Raqqa battle will end in 2 months
The battle to oust Islamic State from its stronghold in the Syrian city of Raqqa should end within two months, a top-ranking Kurdish commander told Reuters, but said she expects the fighting to...
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US troops in Syria came under direct attack near Turkish-backed forces
US troops fighting in the coalition against ISIS came under direct attack near Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers in Northern Syria.Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman told Business Insider that...
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ISIS made a deal with Hezbollah to get bused out of Syria, but the US may...
The Latest on the Syrian conflict and the war against the Islamic State group (all times local):4:45 p.m.A U.S. official says the coalition is monitoring a convoy of Islamic State fighters who were...
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Look inside the tunnels ISIS uses to launch sneak attacks in Raqqa
The Kurdish YPG, a contingent of the US-backed forces fighting ISIS in Syria, released a video on Tuesday showing the underground tunnels that ISIS digs to launch sneak attacks. The video shows two...
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US commander: ISIS leader al-Baghdadi probably still alive
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. commander of forces fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria believes the militants' top leader is still alive. That's contrary to Russia's claims that it probably...
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U.S.-led forces acknowledge killing 61 more civilians in Iraq and Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants said on Friday it had confirmed another 61 likely civilian deaths caused by its strikes in Iraq and Syria, raising to 685...
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Watch a Russian warship fire cruise missiles at ISIS targets in eastern Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian frigate Admiral Essen fired Kalibr cruise missiles at Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday to help a Syrian army offensive in the area,...
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US-led coalition takes Raqqa's Grand Mosque away from ISIS
In a long fight punctuated by moral victories, this may be the biggest yet: The US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria announced Monday morning that it had secured the historic Grand Mosque of Raqqa, a...
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A convoy of ISIS fighters has been stuck in the desert for more than a week...
A convoy of buses and other vehicles has been stuck in the middle of the desert between Syria and Iraq for more than week, fearing US airstrikes if they move.In a statement released Monday, US Central...
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US aircraft are striking stranded ISIS fighters if they try to take a leak
US aircraft operating over Syria have been taking out stranded ISIS fighters one or two at a time in recent days, as a convoy of the group's militants remains stranded in the desert, according to a...
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UN probe finds Syrian regime responsible for chemical weapon attack that...
U.N.-mandated investigators say they have solid evidence a Russian-built plane used by Syrian President Bashar Assad's air force conducted a sarin-gas attack in the spring that killed at least 83...
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War crimes investigator finds Syria's Assad used chemical weapons 33 times...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country's civil war, including in April's deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun, UN war crimes investigators...
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Syrian forces just broke through a 3-year-long ISIS siege
Regime forces fought their way into Deir e-Zor city on Tuesday, “breaking through” a three-year Islamic State siege of regime-held holdout districts of the provincial capital after sweeping across...
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Israel's air force reportedly carried out airstrike near Syria's capital...
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says that an Israeli raid hit a military position in western Syria and has killed two soldiers and caused material damage.The army says in a statement that the attack...
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These Yazidi women escaped ISIS slavery — and are painting self-portraits to...
Three years ago, Liza, Nisren, Hanan, and Jamila were enslaved by ISIS. At the time, Nisren was nine, the others in their twenties.Like thousands of other Yazidi women, they watched as black-clad...
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Lebanon to complain to UN, claims Israeli jets violated airspace, broke...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations against Israel for violating the country's airspace and causing damage by breaking the sound barrier in the south of the country,...
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Trump may develop a more aggressive strategy on Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is weighing a strategy that could allow more aggressive US responses to Iran's forces, its Shi'ite Muslim proxies in Iraq and Syria, and its support for...
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Did Russia drop the father of all bombs in Syria? Here's what we know
Just days before U.S.-backed forces launched an offensive to expel ISIS militants from Deir ez-Zor, the largest city in eastern Syria and heart of the country’s sprawling oil fields, an unusual rumor...
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The US-led bombing campaign against ISIS set a record in August
The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan dropped 5,075 bombs during close-air-support, escort, or interdiction operations in August, according to US Air Forces Central Command...
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Russia just deployed its upgraded MiG-29 to Syria for the first time
The Russian Air Force has deployed some MiG-29SMT multirole combat aircraft to Hmeymim airbase, near Latakia, in western Syria, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed on Sept. 13, 2017.It’s the...
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