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A look at Europe's population helps explain why Britain and Germany are...
A debate is raging across Europe about how many refugees each country should and could take, amid the biggest global displacement crisis in over two decades.A particular schism has emerged between...
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Obama has done the unthinkable with his Syria policy
This may be the most surprising of President Obama's foreign-policy legacies: not just that he presided over a humanitarian and cultural disaster of epochal proportions, but that he soothed the...
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The internet is teaming together to reunite this missing 9-year-old refugee...
A picture of a 9-year-old missing Syrian child who was separated from his parents on the refugee trail has gone viral.In a bid to reunite Abdelhay Eydy with his family, TIME reporter Simon Shuster...
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BREMMER: Putin is serious about entering Syria — and not to go after ISIS
The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is weakening, and one of Assad's primary backers — Russian President Vladimir Putin — is upping the ante."Assad has lost significant territory over the past...
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Congress is facing a daunting task this fall
As Congress returns today from a lengthy summer recess, it will be facing a raft of unfinished business and a much different political landscape than the one it left behind in late July.In the...
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Al Qaeda in Syria just scored a huge victory
Insurgents led by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria captured a northwestern army air base Wednesday after a two-year siege, leaving the entire province of Idlib free of government forces, state media and...
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Putin is exploiting Obama's naïveté in Syria
In July, President Obama said he had been "encouraged" by a telephone call Russian President Vladimir Putin had initiated to discuss Syria.The Russians, Mr. Obama confidently declared, "get a sense...
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The awesome A-10 video the Air Force doesn’t want you to see
The A-10 Warthog is the only aircraft built for a close-air-support (CAS) mission.It was literally designed around its distinctive 30mm Gatling gun. The gun is more than 19 feet long and weighs more...
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Syrian army official: We are seeing a lot more Russian military 'experts'...
The alarms are sounding in Washington.According to a Syrian military official, Russian military experts have become more present in Syria over the last year."Russian experts are always present but in...
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The US just called out Putin over ISIS as Russian soldiers join the fight in...
A Reuters report confirms that Russians are taking part in the fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad."The Russians are no longer just advisors," a Lebanese source told Reuters. "The...
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John McCain displayed the gut-wrenching photo of the drowned Syrian child on...
Sen. John McCain displayed a photo of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee on the Senate floor Wednesday as he urged stronger leadership from President Barack Obama on Syria.McCain, a Republican,...
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The US's Syrian training program is looking like a big waste of money
After spending millions of dollars over the last nine months to churn out only 54 recruits, the Defense Department on Tuesday conceded it is looking at ways to revamp the faltering effort to train and...
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Why Russia is boosting its military presence in Syria right now
BEIRUT, LEBANON — Mounting evidence suggests Russia is significantly increasing military assistance to the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in what is seen as a bid to solidify...
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The anti-ISIS coalition is stepping up its bombing campaign in Syria
Washington (AFP) - A US-led coalition is poised to intensify the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria, in response to a spiraling humanitarian crisis and lackluster results from a year-long...
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Russia is raising the stakes in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - By refusing to clarify the scale of its military presence in Syria, Russia keeps the West fearing a considerable build-up to win a stronger bargaining position when world powers sit...
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Here are the weapons Russia is reportedly sending to Syria
Russia is supplying the Syrian army with hardware including small arms, grenade launchers, advanced BTR-82A armored personnel carriers and Kamaz military trucks, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported...
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The Kremlin refuses to talk about Russian soldiers reportedly fighting in Syria
The Kremlin declined to comment on Thursday on whether Russian troops were fighting in Syria, after sources in Lebanon told Reuters that Russian forces had begun participating in military operations...
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Al Qaeda in Syria published photos from a raid on a Syrian regime airbase
Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in the Levant, announced earlier today that the Abu Duhour airbase in the Idlib province of Syria has been completely “liberated.” Along with its jihadist...
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Here's ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's family tree
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State and self-proclaimed caliph, claims to be a descendant of Muhammad. That's not surprising since most Sunni Muslims believe only a descendant from...
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Assad's most loyal followers are getting angry
BEIRUT – Anger has mounted in the Alawite-populated regions of Syria’s coast that provide the backbone of support for the Bashar al-Assad regime following the fall of the Abu Dhuhur airbase in...
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