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US To Ban Laptops and Tablets On Flights From Eight Countries

The US is banning electronic devices such as laptops and tablets from cabin baggage on flights from eight Middle...

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US Poised To Curb Electronic Devices On Middle East Flights

The United States is poised to ban large electronic devices such as laptops or cameras on board flights from up to a...

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Russia ‘strikes Deal’ With Syrian Kurds To Set Up Base

Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that...

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Pentagon Launches Probe After Strike Near Syria Mosque

The US military is probing allegations that a strike targeting Al-Qaeda leaders near a mosque in northern Syria killed...

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Cloaked In Rags and Dust, Somalis Flee Looming Famine

Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern...

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‘Intense’ Strikes Pound East Damascus After Rebel Assault

Syrian warplanes hammered opposition-held neighbourhoods of Damascus on Monday after regime forces pushed back a...

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‘Intense’ Strikes Pound East Damascus After Rebel Assault

Heavy air strikes pounded rebel positions in east Damascus on Monday, a monitoring group said, as Syrian government...

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Clashes In Syria’s Damascus After Surprise Rebel Attack

Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebel fighters launched a surprise assault...

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Clashes In Syria Capital After Surprise Rebel Assault

Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebels and jihadists launched a surprise...

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East Libyan Forces Claim Victory In Southwest Benghazi

Khalifa Haftar's east Libyan forces have claimed capture of the final holdout of hardline armed forces in the southwest...

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US Insists Al-Jinah Raid Targeted Al-Qaeda, Not Mosque

The US has denied hitting a mosque in Syria where activists say dozens of people, mostly civilians, were killed. The...

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Indian Agency Foils ISIS Plot To Kill Muslim Clerics In UP

Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS) has foiled the plans of a terror module planning to target Shia clerics and...

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In Backing Syria’s Assad, Russia Looks To Outdo Iran

In Aleppo, portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin hang shoulder-to-shoulder with those of his Syrian counterpart...

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US Claims Syria Strike, Denies Targeting Mosque Where 46 Killed

The US said it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a...

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US Claims Deadly Syria Strike, Denies Targeting Mosque

The US military said it carried out a deadly air strike on an Al-Qaeda meeting in northern Syria and would investigate...

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Air Raid On Mosque Near Aleppo ‘kills Dozens’

Dozens of people have been killed after fighter jets struck a packed mosque during prayer time in a rebel-held village...

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Key Forces Battling For Control In Libya

Dozens of armed factions have battled for control of oil-rich Libya since the 2011 fall of longtime dictator Moamer...

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Russian, US Forces Eyeball Each Other In Syrian City

American and Russian troops are now both present in the northern Syrian city of Manbij and can clearly see each other...

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US Offers $5 Mn To Find Murderer of American In Yemen

The United States offered Wednesday to pay $5 million for information leading to those responsible for the murder of an...