BEIRUT, LEBANON- Dozens of people had to be treated for breathing problems in the Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo after regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held district Tuesday, a...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called for the mistakes of the Iraq war to be avoided in finding a solution to the Syrian conflict, ahead of talks with the...
PARIS, FRANCE- Islamic State group fighters could flee to Egypt or Tunisia after being flushed from their former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Monday....
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, Rim Haddad- Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed dozens in mainly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, as Washington and Moscow failed to agree a deal to...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- More than 2,000 sea rescue volunteers, who last year saved thousands trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, have won the annual Nansen prize, the UN refugee agency...
JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED- The Israeli air force hit Syrian government forces after mortar fire from its war-wracked neighbour struck the Israeli-held zone of the Golan Heights on Sunday, the military...
ANKARA, TURKEY, Raziye Akkoc and Sara Hussein in Beirut- Islamic State jihadists were expelled from their last positions along the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey said Sunday, as Syrian forces again...
ANKARA, TURKEY, Raziye Akkoc- Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight Islamic State extremists, opening a new front after its intervention last month...
SIRTE, LIBYA, Mahmud Turkia- Forces loyal to Libya's unity government launched a new attack Saturday on diehards of the Islamic State jihadist group pinned down in the coastal city of Sirte. Backed...
BERLIN, GERMANY- The father of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach a year ago, on Thursday denounced the world's failure to stop the...
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