Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:33:11 +0000
U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) group announced Tuesday they have taken control over an encampment in Baghouz.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:26:14 +0000
Eight years of war in Syria have left more than 370,000 people dead including 112,000 civilians, a monitor said Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:17:32 +0000
Kurdish-led fighters backed by US warplanes tried Thursday to break last defenses of holdout IS group jihadists in a remote Syrian village.
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Credit to Author: Nyima Pratten| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:08:49 +0000
Hassan Al-Kontar was granted asylum in Canada, but says he still feels like the loneliest man in the world.
Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:19:04 +0000
PETALING JAYA — Malaysians who left the country to join the Islamic State in Syria will be allowed to return provided they comply with enforcement checks and complete a rehabilitation program, Al-Jazeera reported.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:21:22 +0000
The Islamic State (IS) group has released a video allegedly showing jihadists in the last scrap of territory they control in eastern Syria.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:14:44 +0000
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battling Islamic State militants in their last foothold in Syria said they have been forced to slow down their push because the extremists are using civilians as human shields.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:55:46 +0000
The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it found “reasonable grounds” that chlorine was used as a weapon in a deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma last year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:42:47 +0000
IS fighters facing defeat in Syria are slipping across the border into Iraq, where they are destabilizing the country’s fragile security.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:21 +0000
WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria won’t be allowed to return to the United States with her toddler son because she is not an American citizen, the U.S. said on Wednesday. Her lawyer is challenging that claim. In a brief statement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave no […]
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