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Assad's cousin has been arrested for reportedly 'conspiring against the regime'
BEIRUT – One of Bashar al-Assad’s cousins has been arrested upon direct orders from the Syrian president amid reports he had been conspiring against the regime.Monzer Jamil al-Assad has been arrested...
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The Assad regime is so short on foreign currency that it's carrying out raids...
BEIRUT – Regime forces have reportedly conducted raids in Damascus in search of dollars amid the worsening currency crisis in the country that has seen the Syrian pound plummet in value.Members of...
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Iraqi officials say the last member of Saddam's inner circle has been killed
BAGHDAD (AP) — He was the last member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still on the run, depicted with his distinctive red moustache as the "king of clubs" on the U.S. military's deck of cards of...
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Der Spiegel: An Iraqi officer under Saddam masterminded the rise of ISIS
BERLIN (Reuters) - A former intelligence officer for the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was the mastermind behind Islamic State's takeover of northern Syria, according to a report by Der Spiegel...
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Chemical warfare has come full circle
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Exactly one century ago Wednesday, German troops opened the taps on a line of chlorine tanks to send a poisonous cloud drifting across no man's land and into World War I...
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One of the most surprising of President Obama’s legacies is unfolding in Syria
One of the most surprising of President Obama's legacies may be the eclipse of "Never again" as an aspiration of U.S. foreign policy.I don't mean that Obama is the first president to stand by as...
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Syrian sarin attack survivor describes the feeling of 'a knife made of fire'
One of the victims of a sarin gas attack launched by the Syrian government on its own people in August 2013 compared the effects of the toxin to “a knife made of fire.”Kassem Eid was lucky to survive...
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A 20-year-old Alabama woman joined ISIS after receiving an innocent...
A 20-year-old woman from a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb has left the US to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, the local broadcaster WIAT reported on Monday.Hoda Muthana made contact with...
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Why the death of Islamic State's 'caliph' wouldn't cripple the terror army
The leader of the Islamic State has reportedly been seriously wounded in an air strike, but even his death would be unlikely to fatally cripple the dangerous terror group.Martin Chulov at The Guardian...
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Here's the Iraqi town where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had reportedly...
The leader of ISIS was reportedly 'seriously injured' in a March airstrike, according to the Guardian. The newspaper reported that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been traveling in a convoy of vehicles...
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Here's the optimistic view of Obama's Middle East policy
President Obama has been trying since his September 2013 address to the United Nations to convince Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies that the United States is truly committed to their...
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ISIS isn’t a terrorist organization
ISIS isn’t a terrorist organization. It’s a transnational army of terror.The CIA claims it has as many as 31,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq, and Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional...
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Report: A former physics teacher favored by Osama bin Laden is now leading ISIS
A former physics teacher from Mosul has been installed as a new temporary leader for the Islamic State after the terror group's leader was reportedly injured in an airstrike in March, an Iraqi...
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The Kurds are advancing on a key ISIS stronghold in Syria
BEIRUT – Kurdish forces backed by Free Syrian Army-affiliated fighters have surrounded the strategic ISIS stronghold of Sarrin, which lies in a key position north of the militant group’s de-facto Raqqa...
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With the latest anti-Assad offensive, Syria's civil war is reaching a tipping...
BEIRUT – Rebels led by the Al-Nusra Front have launched a blistering three-pronged offensive aimed at consolidating their Idlib victory and rolling back the regime in northwest Syria.Insurgents...
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One of Assad's most feared security officers was reportedly beaten to death...
BEIRUT – Notorious Syrian security chief Rustom Ghazaleh has died weeks after a violent altercation with a fellow regime official, according to a leading pro-Damascus media outlet.Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen...
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Here's Hezbollah's game-changing secret drone base
For years, the Lebanese Shi'ite militant organization Hezbollah has incorporated unmanned aerial vehicles into their arsenal, developing perhaps the most sophisticated aerial capabilities of any...
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Jordan's most important trade route has been cut after the Syria border closure
Amman (AFP) - When security fears forced Jordan to close its last border crossing with Syria this month, it severed its most important trade route to the outside, further straining an economy already...
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Syrian rebels led by al-Qaeda are on a serious winning streak in the north
Primarily Islamist and jihadist rebel forces supported by al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) seizedcontrolof the regime-held city of Jisr al-Shughour, southwest of Idlib City, on April 25,...
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The US plan for Syrian rebels sounds like a total mess
REYHANLI, Turkey/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrian rebels are approaching the start of U.S. training to battle Islamic State, without knowing whether or how Washington would come to their aid...
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