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An American citizen fighting for ISIS has been captured in Syria
An American-born ISIS fighter has been captured in Syria by Kurdish forces, Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast report.The Beast report cited multiple US military spokespersons as...
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9 photos of the upgraded MiG-29 that Russia just sent to Syria
Moscow announced on Wednesday that it had deployed an unknown number of its MiG-29SMTs to Syria for the first time.Russian defense firm Mikoyan started developing the MiG-29, codenamed "Fulcrum" by...
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US-backed Syrian fighters refuse to let Assad's forces cross Euphrates as...
U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, setting a red line for President Bashar al-Assad as both sides converge on...
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Turkey's purchase of Russian missiles has ratcheted tensions up to a new level
Turkey announced earlier this week that it had finalized a multibillion-dollar purchase of the S-400, Russia's most sophisticated surface-to-air-missile system.The acquisition has been discussed for...
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The Pentagon is spending $2 billion running Soviet-era guns to Syrian rebels
The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly still funneling billions of dollars’ worth of Soviet-era weaponry to anti-Islamic State groups in Syria, with questionable oversight.In a joint report...
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Russia warns US it will target US-backed fighters in Syria if provoked
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where U.S. special forces and U.S.-backed militia were operating if its own forces came under...
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Here's the video of the Syrian fighter jet being shot down by a US Navy pilot...
On Jun. 18, F/A-18E Super Hornet belonging to the VFA-87 “Golden Warriors” and piloted by Lt. Cmdr. Michael “Mob” Tremel,” shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force Su-22 Fitter near the town of Resafa (40 km...
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Royal Air Force releases video of Hellfire strike that stopped an ISIS...
Britain’s Ministry of Defense has released footage of a Royal Air Force drone strike that it claims disrupted a public execution being staged by ISIS in Syria back in May.The strike was reportedly...
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Russia says ISIS killed one of its generals in Syria, but it's blaming the US
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday that the "two-faced policy" of the United States was to blame for the death of Russian Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov...
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The Russian general killed in Syria was commanding Assad government troops
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian general killed in Syria had been seconded to the Syrian government as a military commander, Russia's military chief of staff said on Wednesday.Moscow has long been a...
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Here's how the US-led coalition decides when and where to hit ISIS targets in...
US-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria hit record levels in August, dropping 5,075 bombs during close-air-support, escort, or interdiction operations.That was the highest monthly...
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Trump is ignoring his duty under the War Powers Act to consult Congress about...
During his address at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Donald Trump went further than he ever had before in threatening military action against North Korea."If [the United States] is forced to...
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Israel is going to war in Syria — to fight Iran
JERUSALEM – Israeli officials believe that Iran is winning its bid for dominance in the Middle East, and they are mobilizing to counter the regional realignment that threatens to follow. The focus of...
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Iraqi military recaptures ISIS' last stronghold in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Thursday.With the capture of Hawija, the militants'...
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Syria's Raqqa has been 'sacrificed' in the fight against ISIS after constant...
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa's deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of...
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This map shows the last Islamic State stronghold in Syria
The Islamic State has been losing ground in Syria for more than a year.United States-backed Syrian rebel forces have laid siege to the militant group’s de facto capital of Raqqa and now control most of...
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ISIS fighters, once bent on martyrdom, surrender en masse from last Iraqi...
When US-backed Iraqi security forces and Iranian Shia militias cleared ISIS' final Iraqi stronghold in Hawijah, they met weak resistance and a massive surrender from a once fearsome army.In 2015 and...
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US-backed forces have ISIS cornered in Raqqa as they prepare for final showdown
In the gutted four-storey building that he and five other US-backed fighters have turned into a frontline fortress, Babel can peer out at Islamic State positions just 150 meters away.The jihadist...
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How a businessman struck a deal with ISIS to help Assad feed Syrians
RAQQA/DUBAI (Reuters) - While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was accusing the West of turning a blind eye to Islamic State smuggling, a member of his parliament was quietly doing business with the...
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The British woman who fled home to join ISIS has reportedly been killed by a...
The British woman who fled her home to join the Islamic State has reportedly been killed.Sally Jones — also known as the "White Widow"— was killed by a US drone strike in Syria this June, CIA agents...
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