DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syria's army Sunday seized a key town from the Islamic State group in the east of Aleppo province, a military source said, nearing its goal of expelling the jihadists from the...
PARIS, FRANCE, Michel Moutot- Three men with a white van and a stash of knives. Faced with such a simple and brutal plan for slaughter, there's not much the world's most sophisticated police and...
AIN ISSA, SYRIA, Delil Souleiman- As US-backed forces prepare a final assault on the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan feast...
PARIS, FRANCE, Acil Tabbara- More than just a military defeat by Israel, the 1967 Six-Day War dealt a death blow to Arab nationalism, which helped Palestinian groups to free themselves from Arab...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA- A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is scheduled for mid-June in the Kazakh capital, Syria's envoy to Moscow said Saturday, with sponsors Russia, Iran and Turkey aiming to bolster...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rouba El Husseini- The battle to capture the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa will begin "in days", a militia spokeswoman said Saturday after fresh advances by a...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- A US-backed battalion of Syrian Arab fighters edged closer to the outskirts of the Islamic State group stronghold of Raqa Tuesday, a spokesman for the unit and a monitor said. "Our...
RABAT, MOROCCO- The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Morocco and Algeria to provide safe passage for dozens of Syrian refugees trapped in no-man's land between the two countries. "Prompt action by...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The United States on Tuesday began providing small arms to Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the Pentagon said, fulfilling a pledge that...
MOSUL, IRAQ, Simon Valmary with W.G. Dunlop in Baghdad- Iraqi forces pressed forward Monday with an offensive against jihadist-held areas of Mosul as the United Nations warned of grave danger to...
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