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Syrian town struggles to cope alone after key victory over Daesh
Oct 17, 2017
KOBANI, Syria — Almost three years after Kurdish fighters defeated the Daesh terror group in the Syrian town of Kobani, residents still mourn the dead and feel abandoned by their foreign allies as they struggle to rebuild.Daesh’s defeat in predominately Kurdish Kobani in early 2015 helped turn the tide against the ultra-militant group and marked th ...
Daesh defeated in its Syrian capital Raqqa
Oct 17, 2017
RAQQA, Syria — US-backed militias in Syria declared victory over the Daesh extremist ...
Israel says no talks with Palestinian gov’t that includes armed Hamas
Oct 17, 2017
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s government decided Tuesday not to negotiate with a Pale ...
Kurds abandon territory in face of Iraq government advance
Oct 17, 2017
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK — The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly r ...
UN-backed Libya talks hit new snag
Oct 17, 2017
TUNIS — Talks between representatives of rival authorities in strife-torn Libya have hit a new snag after a parliamentary delegation suspend ...
Medical aid rushed to stricken Somalia after bombing
Oct 17, 2017
MOGADISHU — Somalia's allies sent planes carrying medical supplies and doctors on Tuesday, while the diaspora rallied to donate blood to hel ...
Iraqi forces seize Kirkuk from Kurds in bold advance
Oct 16, 2017
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK — Iraqi government forces captured the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish vote on independence wi ...
US-backed militias in final push against Daesh in Raqqa
Oct 16, 2017
RAQQA, Syria — US-backed militias battled foreign fighters defending the last pocket of the Daesh extremist group’s one-time Syrian capital ...
Hope fades as Mogadishu residents seek missing loved ones
Oct 16, 2017
MOGADISHU — Tears streamed down Abduweli Osman's cheeks as he stood in the sticky heat outside a Mogadishu hospital, his last stop in the se ...
Lisbon’s first Syrian restaurant a welcome sign for refugees
Oct 16, 2017
LISBON — The queue outside Lisbon's first Syrian restaurant on its opening day showed an appetite not just for Syrian food but for integrati ...
Final assault starts on Raqqa as some Daesh fighters quit
Oct 15, 2017
AIN ISSA, Syria/BEIRUT — US-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria's Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of Daesh ex ...
Kurds block Iraqi forces’ access to Kirkuk’s oilfields, airbase
Oct 15, 2017
BAGHDAD — Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rejected a warning from an Iraqi paramilitary force to withdraw from a strategic junction south of Kirk ...
Classrooms in rebel-held Yemen shuttered on first day of school
Oct 15, 2017
SANAA — Classrooms in Yemen's capital and rebel-held north remained largely empty on the first official day of school Sunday, as war, hunger ...
US takes aim at Yemeni Daesh for first time
Oct 17, 2017
Once promised paradise, Daesh fighters end up in mass graves
Oct 17, 2017
Daesh’s ‘caliphate’ crumbles but group remains potent threat
Oct 17, 2017
Israel ‘strikes Syrian anti-aircraft battery in response to fire’
Oct 16, 2017
EU defends Iran deal appeals to US Congress
Oct 16, 2017
Iraq PM denies attack plan as tensions rise with Kurds
Oct 12, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s next revolution — female taxi drivers
Oct 12, 2017
Saudi king’s visit consolidates Russia’s Middle East power
Oct 12, 2017
‘Hundreds of suspected militants surrender in Iraq’
Oct 10, 2017
EU aims to reopen embassy in Libya
Oct 10, 2017
Cars, apps and driving schools — Saudi women drivers targeted as new market
Oct 10, 2017
Fateh, Hamas to discuss Gaza security under deal
Oct 10, 2017
‘Gunman killed after attack near Jeddah palace’
Oct 08, 2017
Nobel laureate says human suffering must end in ‘forgotten land’ of Yemen
Oct 07, 2017
Debris and dust: Raqqa ‘sacrificed’ to defeat Daesh
Oct 07, 2017
Russia, Saudi Arabia cement new friendship with king's visit
Oct 05, 2017
Fleeing offensives, where are the Daesh extremists going
Oct 05, 2017
Russian strikes in Syria hit rebels’ underground arsenal
Oct 05, 2017
Palestinian PM leaves Gaza after reconciliation visit
Oct 05, 2017
Iraq forces push into Daesh bastion Hawija
Oct 05, 2017
Germany redeploys anti-Daesh surveillance jets to Jordan
Oct 05, 2017
4 dead in suicide bombing in Libya’s Misrata — security
Oct 04, 2017

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