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'The battle for Syria' is happening south of the capital
With the Syrian crisis entering its fifth year, a months-long campaign by the largest antigovernment militia in the south to march on Damascus and turn the tide of the war has become a bitter fight for...
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Why US veterans are signing up with militias to fight ISIS
Some American veterans have been drawn back to the Middle East by the fight to banish Islamic State militants.The New York Times tells the story of 29-year-old Patrick Maxwell, an Iraq war veteran who...
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Only 3% of the lights are still on in Syria's largest city
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Eighty-three percent of all the lights in Syria have gone out since the start of the conflict four years ago, a research report based on satellite images said on Thursday.More than...
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Turkish foreign minister: The person arrested for helping 3 British girls...
Turkey's foreign minister has made the accusation that a spy working for the coalition fighting the Islamic State helped three young British women travel to Syria to join the terror group, Al Arabiya...
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Secret UN talks about lifting Iran sanctions have begun
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Major world powers have quietly begun talks on a U.N. Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck, a step that could make it...
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Hamas launched a Twitter campaign and it blew up in the terror group's face
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Twitter hashtag campaign launched by Hamas on Friday to build support in the West seems to be backfiring with users mocking the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza.Hamas launched...
View ArticleThis air base in Qatar carries out American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
The Al-Udeid Air Base acts as the headquarters for US Central Command in its efforts for "Operation Inherent Resolve" in Iraq and Syria. The base, located around 30 miles from Qatari capital Doha, is a...
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John Kerry just significantly changed his tune on how to deal with Syria's Assad
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and is exploring ways to pressure him into agreeing...
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John Kerry just gave Syria's Assad a symbolic victory
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would be willing to talk with Syrian President Bashar Assad to help broker a political resolution to the country's civil...
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France and the US just split on Syria
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Monday it was maintaining its opposition to talks with President Bashar al-Assad a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the prospect of negotiations with...
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The Syrian Revolution is over — but so is Assad's power and prestige
Four years after its outbreak, the Syrian revolution is dead — not because President Bashar al-Assad has defeated it, but because he has derailed it, and while doing so, has also undermined his own...
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This 4-year-old report shows how badly Syria spiraled out of control
The Syrian civil war is an unstoppable cataclysm that's killed nearly a quarter-million people and displaced around ten million more.It's destroyed Syria's existence as a single national entity. It's...
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Bombshell report alleges Argentina, Iran, and Venezuela were once all bound...
Three former Venezuelan government officials who defected from Hugo Chavez's regime spoke to the Brazilian magazine Veja about an alleged alliance between Argentina, Venezuela, and Iran, which included...
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The State Department is walking back John Kerry's apparent support for the US...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States insisted on Monday it would never negotiate directly with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, edging away from comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry, and...
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Syria monitor says government forces killed six people in a gas attack
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said on Tuesday that government forces had carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos...
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It looks like the Syrian government dropped toxic gas on civilians again
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said on Tuesday government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what...
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Syrian media says the army shot down a US drone
Syria's state news agency SANA said on Tuesday its air defenses have brought down a U.S. surveillance plane in the coastal province of Latakia."Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile U.S....
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The US is still trying to walk back John Kerry's comments about negotiating...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States still wants a negotiated political settlement in Syria that excludes President Bashar al-Assad, and its position on the Syrian leader has not changed, top U.S....
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3 things to learn about Syria shooting down a US drone
The US lost contact with an unarmed MQ-1 Predator drone on Tuesday.Though Pentagon officials could not confirm whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed because of a failure, the Syrian SANA news...
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Syria is imposing red lines on the US-led air war on ISIS
BEIRUT (Reuters) - After allowing the United States to use its air space to bomb Islamic State fighters for six months, the Syrian army appears to have imposed a "red line" by shooting down a U.S....
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