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ISIS might be under strain in Syria, but it's still far from collapsing
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State's defeat in Kobani and other recent setbacks in Syria suggest the group is under strain but far from collapse in the Syrian half of its self-declared caliphate.Islamic...
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Kobani's future is still uncertain despite ISIS defeat
KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - Kurds are celebrating after flushing Islamic State militants out of the town of Kobani, but victory is not yet certain in their campaign to cement hard-won autonomy in...
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Six Bosnian natives are facing charges in the US for providing money, guns to...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Six people have been charged with providing money and equipment including U.S. military uniforms to support groups such as al Qaeda, Nusra Front and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq,...
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Activists say over 200,000 people have died in the Syrian civil war
AMMAN (Reuters) - The death toll after nearly four years of civil war in Syria has risen to 210,060, nearly half of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory...
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Skepticism remains after ISIS claims American hostage was killed
Washington (AFP) - The US said it had no proof to support a claim from the Islamic State group that a coalition air strike killed an American woman it was holding hostage in Syria.The jihadists named...
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ISIS is pulling resources away from Syria's biggest front line
AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State has withdrawn some of its insurgents and equipment from areas northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and residents say, adding to signs of strain in the Syrian...
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The US is running out of airstrike targets in ISIS's capital
The U.S.-led coalition killed roughly 30 Islamic State group militants with just one airstrike on the group’s Syrian headquarters of Raqqa on Friday. That was one of the heaviest single blows since...
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Assad: Syria gets information on US-led air strikes from Iraq
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant...
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US confirms death of American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller
President Barack Obama has released a statement confirming the death of an American hostage held by the Islamic State militant group.Kayla Jean Mueller was a US aid worker from Prescott, Arizona. She...
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Hezbollah and Iran are launching a new offensive in southern Syria
Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters have launched a wide-ranging offensive outside Damascus stretching to Quneitra and Daraa in a bid to secure the regime's southern front.Pro- and...
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American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller sent this heartbreaking letter before she...
The family of an American hostage recently killed in Syria has released a heartbreaking final letter she wrote before her death.US government officials confirmed the death of Kayla Jean Mueller, an aid...
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ISIS's all-female brigade just released a startling new manifesto
The al-Khans'aa Brigade, the group of women within the Islamic State's 'caliphate' known for enforcing dress codes and strict rules of law in the group's stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, released a...
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The US-led war against ISIS may stretch beyond Iraq and Syria
Barack Obama’s proposed framework for the US-led war against the Islamic State will not restrict the battlefield to Iraq and Syria, multiple congressional sources said on Tuesday, placing the US into a...
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Tens of thousands of people have gone to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among...
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Bashar Assad continues to kill scores of Syrian civilians with explosive...
Syrian regime forces hit Douma with heavy bombing, using suspected barrel bombs, from Monday night to Tuesday, killing at least 18 people in the capital of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta province. But the...
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Aiding ISIS victims without helping the jihadists is a difficult task
The rise of the Islamic State is a moral dilemma for humanitarian aid groups. The conflict in Iraq and Syria has inflicted incredible suffering on at least some of the 3.6 million people reportedly...
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INSIDE ISIS: A new book explains the terror army's rise
A US-led military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria has now been underway for six months, and yet to all outward appearances the jihadist militants look as...
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South Syria is now a battleground for Iranian, Iraqi, and Afghan militias...
Syria's South is becoming the new battleground between forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and the rebels, and the regime is relying more and more on foreign militias to stop its enemies.Over the...
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The US military is investigating possible civilian casualties from anti-ISIS...
A spokesman for US Central Command revealed they are investigating three incidents where airstrikes aimed at the jihadist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) that may have led to civilian...
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A proposed six-week ceasefire in Syria 'will be a difficult mission'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Syrian government is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so that a local ceasefire can be tested, the United...
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