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Explainer: For Kurds, U.S. pull-back feels like being abandoned once more
For Syria's Kurds, the United States' abrupt pull-back from positions in northeast Syria carries a sharp sting, reviving the community's memories over being abandoned in the past by the Americans...
Islamic State leader appears in video for first time in 5 years
The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group claimed to appear for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group's propaganda arm on Monday,...
Syria attack kills 4 Americans, complicates withdrawal plan
A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State killed at least 16 people, including two U.S. service members and two American civilians, in northern Syria on Wednesday, just a month...
Deaths mount in Syria as U.N. weighs cease-fire resolution
Syrian government warplanes carried out a sixth day of airstrikes Friday in the rebel-held suburbs east of Damascus, killing 32 people, activists said, as the death toll from a week...
On surprise Russia trip, Assad and Putin talk post-war Syria
On a surprise trip to Russia, Syria's Bashar Assad discussed potential new peace initiatives for post-war Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin who declared that Russia's two-year military campaign in...
Lebanon’s PM Hariri says he will be in Beirut within days
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Saturday he will return home in the coming days from where he will declare a political stance for the first time since making a...
U.S. and allied forces begin final assault on Islamic State in Syria’s Raqqa
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters launched an operation to retake the last Islamic State-held pocket of the northern city of Raqqa on Sunday after some 275 militants and their family members surrendered.
Syrian troops breach 3-year Islamic State siege on eastern city
Syrian government troops and allied forces reached the eastern city of Deir el-Zour on Tuesday, breaching a nearly 3-year Islamic State group siege on government-held areas of the contested city...
U.S.-led coalition says it may hit Islamic State evacuees in Syria
The U.S.-led coalition said Wednesday it may strike a convoy of Islamic State militants that evacuated the Lebanon border headed toward eastern Syria under a controversial agreement brokered by Hezbollah.
Russia claims it has killed Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi
Russia claimed Friday it killed the leader of the Islamic State group in an airstrike targeting a meeting of IS leaders just outside the group's de facto capital in Syria.