TRIPOLI, LIBYA- Libya's unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic State group forces of what...
ALEPPO, SYRIA, Karam al-Masri with Layal Abou Rahal in Beirut- The UN Security Council was to vote Sunday on sending observers to Aleppo, as trapped civilians and rebels waited desperately for...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- A former Syrian diplomat convicted in Geneva of raping and torturing a 60-year-old woman has been arrested in France after 15 years on the run, Swiss officials said Wednesday. A...
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP - Turkey on Friday insisted that the evacuation of rebels and their families from the eastern sector of Syria's Aleppo was not finished, contradicting a statement by the...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- French President Francois Hollande on Thursday lashed out at Russia's role in the siege of Aleppo, saying that Moscow had broken a promise to aid trapped civilians. "Russia is...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- A convoy carrying the first evacuees from rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo arrived in opposition territory west of the city on Thursday, a doctor there and a monitor said. "Red...
ALEPPO, SYRIA, Karam al-Masri- In the last rebel-held pocket of Aleppo, residents were bidding a tearful farewell to their battleground city, expecting to evacuate, only to be plunged back into a...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The threat from the Islamic State group will likely endure for years to come, even if it loses all the territory it once held under its so-called "caliphate," experts...
ALEPPO, SYRIA, Rim Haddad with Layal Abou Rahal in Beirut- UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm over reports of atrocities against civilians Monday, as the battle for Aleppo entered its final phase...
ATHENS, GREECE, Marina Rafenberg- As the battle for Aleppo enters its final phase, Syrians now living in Greece feel utterly consumed by the human cost of the four-year rebel fight for the...
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