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For Syrians, 8 years of war leaves stories of loss and hope
War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people.
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Iraq defeated ISIS more than a year ago. The group’s revival is already underway
Baghdad declared victory against ISIS just over a year ago, claiming the group had been reduced to a handful of lawless troops. Now, the militants are waging a fresh guerrilla campaign from their base in far-flung territories of northern Iraq.
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US-backed Syrian fighters advance on 2 fronts against IS
U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow the push on the last area controlled by the Islamic State.
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Chemical weapons watchdog says chlorine was used in Syrian town
The determination was contained in a detailed report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ fact finding mission that investigated the April 7, 2018 attack. Medical workers said at the time that the attack killed more than 40 people.
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Senate approves Middle East policy bill urging the President to keep US troops in Afghanistan, Syria
The bill includes a provision urging President Donald Trump not to precipitously withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria until terrorist groups there are destroyed. It passed on a broad bipartisan vote, 77 to 23.
1 month ago -
Trump salutes remains of 4 Americans killed in Syria attack
President Donald Trump was paying tribute Saturday to the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria this week as he set off to Dover Air Force Base for the return of their remains.
2 months ago -
Syria attack victims include daughter of US police official
The Pentagon hasn’t identified the fourth casualty, a civilian contractor. Officials say the four were killed in the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Wednesday.
2 months ago -
2 US service members, 2 US civilians killed in Syria blast
The U.S. military says a number of service members were killed Wednesday in an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria — the first instance of U.S. casualties since President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw troops from the country last month.
2 months ago -
US official says withdrawal from Syria has begun
Confirmation of the first withdrawals comes amid confusion over plans to implement President Donald Trump’s pullout order and threats from Turkey to attack the Kurds, who have been America’s partners on the ground in the war against the Islamic State group in Syria.
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Trump adviser: US to leave Syria once IS beaten, Kurds safe
Bolton, who is in Israel to reassure the U.S. ally of the Trump-ordered withdrawal, says there is no timetable for the pull-out of American forces in northeastern Syria, but insists it’s not an unlimited commitment.
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Leaving Pentagon, Mattis urges workers to ‘keep faith’ in US
Jim Mattis, who resigned over a series of policy disagreements with Trump, including the president’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, said he’s confident Pentagon employees will remain “undistracted from our sworn mission to support and defend the Constitution while protecting our way of life.”
3 months ago -
Trump loses US envoy to anti-IS coalition over Syria plan
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest to President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
3 months ago -
Trump pulling all US troops from Syria, declaring IS defeat
President Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, officials announced Wednesday as the president suddenly declared victory over the Islamic State, contradicting his own experts’ assessments
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Small town welcomed Syrian immigrants, who’re paying it back
When floods again ripped through here in May, killing a Maryland National Guardsman, closing businesses up and down its historic district and producing images of destruction recalling the floods of 2016, a Syrian immigrant vowed to do anything he could to help a community that had become his own.
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Russia blames Israel for downing of plane by Syrian forces
The Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday presented its latest findings on the Il-20’s downing, laying the blame squarely on Israel.
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