Syria
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Jan- 2020 -17 JanuaryMiddle East
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
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16 JanuaryMiddle East
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
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13 JanuaryCommentary
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
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10 JanuaryCommentary
Hezbollah’s missiles of mass destruction
It’s long been surmised that Iran could deploy Hezbollah against Israel as a first-strike force or in response to an attack on its nuclear facilities
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10 JanuaryMiddle East
Syria: Ceasefire established in Idlib province following Turkish delegation visit to Russia
A ceasefire between warring sides in Syria's Idlib province came into effect following the visit of a Turkish delegation to Russia
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Dec- 2019 -29 DecemberMiddle East
Turkey will not pull out of Idlib observation posts in Syria, Akar says
Turkey will not withdraw from its observation posts in Syrian rebel bastion province of Idlib which has seen an increase in violence carried out by regime forces
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19 DecemberMiddle East
Car bomb in Tel Halaf kills 5, latest in Syrian town captured by Turkey from YPG
Turkey's defense ministry announced that a car bomb killed a five civilians in northeast Syria, the latest in a series of deadly car bombings
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12 DecemberMiddle East
Fearing conscription into Assad’s army, Syrian Kurds flee to Iraq
Syrian Kurdish men in Iraq say they fled not only Turkey's military offensive but the possibility of conscription into Assad's army
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10 DecemberMiddle East
Russian troops enter Syria’s Raqqa, filling void of withdrawing US forces
The Russian military moved into ISIS's former capital at Raqqa in northeast Syria following an agreement with the SDF
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6 DecemberMiddle East
Esper says US pullback from parts of northeast Syria complete
The US has completed a pullback of forces from contested areas of northeast Syria, Defense Secretary Esper told Reuters on Wednesday
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