Russian fighter killed in northern Syria -monitor, security source
Qamishli/Beirut (Reuters) – A Russian fighter was killed and several others wounded in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo on Monday,
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Twenty-two U.S. troops injured in Syria helicopter mishap, U.S. says
Washington (Reuters) – Twenty-two U.S. service members were injured in a helicopter “mishap” in northeast Syria on Sunday, the U.S.
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Syria’s Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them
Qamishli (AP) — The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group
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Iraq and Syria discuss tackling cross-border drug trade
Baghdad (Reuters) – Iraq and Syria’s foreign ministers discussed ways to help end drug trafficking across their joint border at
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Restoration lags for Syria’s famed Roman ruins at Palmyra and other war-battered historic sites
Associated Press Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, has begun restoring Palmyra’s triumphal arch, the largest-scale project
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Palestinian militant group in Syria holds funeral for 5 killed in mysterious blast
Damascus (AP) — A Syria-backed Palestinian militant group Thursday held a funeral for five fighters who died in a blast
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UN: Staggering 15.3 million Syrians, nearly 70% of population, need aid
United Nations (AP) — For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree
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Teenagers from Islamic State families undergo rehabilitation in Syria, but future still uncertain
Associated Press The camp holds about 51,000 people, the vast majority women and children, including the wives, widows and other
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Syria says Israeli missiles target sites near Damascus
Amman (Reuters) – Syrian army air defences on Sunday confronted an Israeli missile strike on the outskirts of the Syrian
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Facing pushback from Lebanese officials, UN walks back plan to give aid to Syrian refugees in USD
Beirut (AP) — The United Nations announced Saturday that it will suspend a plan to begin making aid payments to
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