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Syria Condemns Attack By US-Led Coalition

Syria on Friday condemned a US-led coalition strike on pro-government forces as a "brazen attack" and said it would...

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Saudi Looks To Assert Regional Role With Trump Summit

Saudi Arabia is looking to assert its regional leadership against Iran by hosting a summit between visiting US...

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How ‘dark Genius’ Ailes Reshaped US Television News

Championed by conservatives as a visionary, reviled by liberals as a menace, Fox News founder Roger Ailes re-shaped US...

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IS Kills More Than 50 People In Syria Assault

The Islamic State group killed more than 50 people in an attack on two government-held villages in central Syria's Hama...

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Israel Declassifies Six-Day War Archives

Israel on Thursday released thousands of previously classified official documents charting political decisions during...

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Some NATO Allies Favour Joining Anti-IS Coalition

Some NATO allies believe joining the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq could send a...

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UN Says Struggling To Cope With Mosul Exodus

The exodus of civilians from the battleground city of Mosul has reached an unprecedented level, leaving aid agencies...

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On Mosul Front, Iraqi Forces Come As Civilians Go

The black Humvee slaloming between car bomb carcasses and mortar craters stops to let fleeing civilians cross and then...

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US Presses Idea of NATO Taking Over Training of Iraq Troops

The top US military commander floated the idea late Wednesday of NATO assuming some responsibility for training troops...

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Turkey Calls For Ouster of US Envoy For Anti-IS Coalition

Turkey called Thursday for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating the international coalition fighting the Islamic...

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From Antisecrecy Activist To Transgender Idol

Chelsea Manning was a meek, geeky army private who stunned the world in 2010 by leaking a massive trove of secret US...

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Newly-Freed Chelsea Manning Says Putting Past Behind Her

Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for giving US secrets to WikiLeaks, said Wednesday she was looking...

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From Combat Videos To Candid Comments

From graphic videos of US military assaults in Iraq and Afghanistan, to candid comments by heads of state, secrets...

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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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Chelsea Manning Freed From Military Prison

US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of...

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A Moderate Cleric Open To the World

President Hassan Rouhani has spent three decades at the heart of Iran's revolutionary establishment but is strongly...

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Hardline Challenger In Iran

Ebrahim Raisi, the leading rival to President Hassan Rouhani in Friday's presidential election, is a hardline judge...

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WikiLeaks Source Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released

Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US...

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Middle East’s Shiite Powerhouse

Iran, the Middle East's second largest power by economy and population, is the Shiite Muslim rival of regional Sunni...