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Syria Sees First Polio Cases In Three Years

Three new cases of polio have been recorded in Syria in the first outbreak of the virus in the country since 2014, the...

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US-Led Strike Kills Founder of IS Propaganda Agency

A US-led coalition air strike on eastern Syria has killed a founder of the Islamic State group's notorious Amaq...

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US-Backed Arab Fighters Advance Outside Syria’s Raqa

A US-backed battalion of Syrian Arab fighters edged closer to the outskirts of the Islamic State group stronghold of...

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IS Shelling Kills 14 Civilians In East Syria City

Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State group jihadists shelled a government-controlled...

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UN Urges Anti-IS Coalition To Protect Civilians

The UN on Friday urged all nations bombing jihadist targets in Syria to better distinguish between civilian and...

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US-Led Strikes Kill 35 Civilians In East Syria

US-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed at least 35 civilians in an eastern Syrian town held by the Islamic...

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Syria Army Retakes Villages After Deadly IS Attack

The Syrian army has regained full control of two central villages from the Islamic State group after an attack that...

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US-Led Coalition Denies East Syria Strike That Killed Civilians

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said Wednesday it did not conduct strikes in the eastern Syrian...

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US-Led Strike On IS-Held Syria Town Kills 23 Civilians

Islamic State jihadists established a caliphate in 2014 after seizing a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria,...

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As Fighting Ebbs In West Syria, Army Looks East

With hostilities subsiding on Syria's western battlefronts, President Bashar al-Assad's army is seeking to head off...

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A Strategic Prize

Syria's Tabqa, which US-backed forces entered Monday, is doubly strategic: it lies on the road to the Islamic State...

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US Forces Kill IS Leader Blamed For Nightclub Attack

US forces operating in Syria have killed a senior member of the Islamic State group blamed for an attack on a nightclub...

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Syrians Flee Raqa ‘hell’ As US-Backed Assault Nears

In a muddy camp in northern Syria, civilians who fled Raqa said fear of an expected US-backed assault on the Islamic...

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At Syria Dam, US-Backed Fighters Battle IS Jihadists

The road to the Tabqa dam in northern Syria is strewn with evidence of the clashes being waged by a US-backed alliance...

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Syria Force Halts Push On IS-Held Dam For Repairs

US-backed Syrian fighters on Monday paused their offensive for a key dam held by the Islamic State group to allow a...

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US-Backed Fighters Battle IS Around North Syria Town

US-backed forces battled the Islamic State group around a key Syrian town Monday, hours after the capture of an airbase...

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US-Backed Fighters Battle IS Near North Syria Town

US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters around a key northern Syrian town on Monday, a monitor said,...

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Fighting Puts Syria IS-Held Dam Out of Service

Fighting at a dam held by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria put it out of service Sunday, risking...

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IS Leader Baghdadi ‘flees Mosul’ As Iraqi Forces Advance

Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reported to have abandoned Mosul, leaving local commanders behind to...