DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of backing extremism as he met Tuesday with visiting Turkish opposition figures. "Erdogan leads...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- Donations to Islamic State jihadists have dramatically declined in the wake of brutal executions by the group that have shocked public opinion in the Middle East, the chief...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The United States will be ready to "protect" moderate Syrian rebels possibly with air power once they enter into combat, a top US official said Monday. Retired US general...
KIRKUK, IRAQ, Hassan al-Obaidi- Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded jihadists in and around Tikrit in the biggest offensive yet to retake one of the Islamic State group's...
PARIS, FRANCE- Syria's exiled opposition praised France on Sunday for maintaining its "exemplary" opposition to President Bashar al-Assad after a group of French lawmakers made a controversial visit...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- US forces are targeting the London man believed to be "Jihadi John," an Islamic State executioner, a senior Democratic senator said Sunday. London graduate Mohammed Emwazi...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA- UN envoy Staffan De Mistura held talks in the Syrian capital on Saturday to try to finalise a deal to freeze fighting in the war-ravaged second city of Aleppo. He met Foreign...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- The London man believed to be Islamic State executioner "Jihadi John" told a journalist four years ago that surveillance by British security services had left him...
MIAMI, UNITED STATES- The family of Steven Sotloff, an American-Israeli journalist murdered by the Islamic State group, said they were relishing seeing his killer face justice after the apparent...
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- Syria's refugee crisis is approaching a "dangerous turning point" as nearly four million Syrians face worsening living conditions in exile, the UN refugee chief warned...
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