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20 January

Foreign ministers announce the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA)

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Iran will ‘consider’ nuclear weapons treaty withdrawal if Europe pushes UN dispute

Iran said it will consider withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons if a dispute over its atomic program goes before the UN Security Council

18 January

Staff Writer With AFP

US sanctions Iran IRGC general, alleging he ordered protest crackdown

The US sanctioned Iran IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour for overseeing a massacre of protestors in November

17 January

Jared Szuba

Car bomb kills Turkish soldiers, Syrian fighters in contested northeast

Three Turkish soldiers and at least four Syrian fighters were killed in the latest car bombing near the town of Tal Abyad in northeast Syria

16 January

Staff Writer With AFP

Syria’s Al Hol camp sees more than 500 deaths in 2019

At least 517 people, mostly children, died in 2019 in Syria's Al Hol housing displaced people and relatives of ISIS fighters, the Kurdish Red Crescent said

15 January

Staff Writer With AFP

Pilot killed in Egypt Air Force fighter jet crash during ‘training activity’ in North Sinai

An Egyptian Air Force pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed during a "training activity," the Egyptian military said

13 January

Baghdadi reads report on Islamic State Central Africa Province

Asaf Day

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What the ‘Vengeance for the Two Sheikhs’ campaign says about new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not appear to have reduced ISIS’s capabilities, and new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi seems to be carrying on his legacy

11 January