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California Man Charged With Trying to Help Terrorist Group
A Russian man has been charged in California with attempting to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said Friday.
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UN Urges Countries to Repatriate 27,000 Children From Syria
The U.N. counterterrorism chief is urging countries to repatriate the 27,000 children stranded in a massive camp in northeastern Syria
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In Ruins, Syria Marks 50 Years of Assad Family Rule
On Nov. 13, 1970, Hafez Assad, a young career air force officer, took power in Syria in a bloodless coup, the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1946
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Out After Syria Withdrawal
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will retire in February 2019. Mattis submitted a letter to Trump saying the president deserves a secretary of defense with views more close to his on things like alliances and building an international order. The move comes after Trump abruptly announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria,…
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Refugees, Aid Groups Condemn UN Decision to Limit Syrian Aid Crossings
The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into Syria, NBC News reports. “The veto is against us,” Mustafa Alkaser told NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. “It’s against the refugees, against the free Syrians who once stood up...
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Families of Syria Detainees Hope for News Amid US Sanctions
Syrian families are hoping that newly imposed U.S. sanctions will force Damascus to reveal news about their loved ones who disappeared into government prisons during the country’s civil war
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Israel OKs Plan for New Golan Settlement Named After Trump
An Israeli cabinet minister says the government has approved plans to build a new settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights named after President Donald Trump
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IS Extremists Step Up as Iraq, Syria, Grapple With Virus
A recent wave of deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria claimed by the Islamic State group shows that the extremist group defeated last year is taking advantage of governments absorbed by the economic and health impacts of the novel coronavirus to reassert itself
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Iran Defends Virus Response as Syria Reports First Death
Iran’s president has lashed out at criticism of authorities’ lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.
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Virus Could Cause ‘Carnage' Among World's Refugees, Aid Groups Say
The coronavirus outbreak threatens to inflict “carnage” on refugees around the world who often live in cramped conditions, lack access to clean water and are in countries with failing or stretched medical systems, humanitarian aid groups say.
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‘There Is Nothing Now': Syrians in Idlib Fear End Nearing
The city of Idlib is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name.
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Turkey, Syria Fighting Escalates; Refugees Mass at EU Border
Thousands of migrants and refugees have massed at Turkey’s western frontier
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Turkey, Russia Talk Tensions in Syria as Migrants Push West
The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke by phone Friday to try to defuse tensions that rose significantly in Syria after 33 Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike blamed on the Syrian government, and a new wave of refugees and migrants headed for the Greek land and sea border after Turkey said it would no longer hold them back….
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33 Turkish Soldiers Killed in Northeast Syria Air Strike
Turkey on Friday raised the death toll from a Syrian government airstrike on its forces in northwestern Syria the day before to 33 Turkish troops killed. It was the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since it first intervened in Syria in 2016.
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US Troops Clash With Pro-Government Group in Northeast Syria
A Syrian was killed and another was wounded when government supporters attacked American troops and tried to block their way as their convoy drove through an army checkpoint in northeastern Syria, prompting a rare clash, state media and activists reported.
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Turkey Accused of Sending Syrians Back to ‘War Zone' as Conflict Escalates
A renewed push by Syrian government forces has prompted aid groups to raise the alarm about the “staggering exodus” of people from the country’s northwest, NBC News reports.
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At Oscars, ‘The Cave' Aims to Provide Hope to Syria
“The Cave” is one of the five films nominated for best documentary at this Sunday’s Academy Awards
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General: US Committed to Syria Fight; Missions Up Against ISIS
U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about? Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S Middle East commander, knows the future is not certain. But at least for today, he said, “this is an area where...
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Bureaucracy to Brutality: New Evidence Reveals ISIS Hierarchy
Documents compiled by a U.S.-based Syrian rights group reveal how Islamic State militants used one of their most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and impose and execute penalties.
The new evidence could be used in international prosecutions.
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Air Strikes Kill Iran-Backed Iraqi Militiamen in Syria
Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight Iran-backed Iraqi militiamen, Syrian activists and two Iraqi officials said, an attack that comes amid soaring tensions between the U.S. and Iran.