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Russia Drafting Thousands In Syria For Ukraine Deployment: War Monitor
Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor said Tuesday.
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Turkey Opens Ground Assault On Syria's Kurds; Republicans Turn On Trump
Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.
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Rape Used As Wide-Scale Weapon Of War In Syria: UN Report
Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
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Houthi Radio Station Says Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh Killed, No Confirmation
The radio station of Yemen's Houthi-controlled interior ministry said on Monday the militia's former war ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed though there was no independent confirmation as fierce combat battered the Yemeni capital.
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Russia Threatens Retaliatory Strikes Against US Troops And Their Allies In Syria
Russia on Thursday raised the threat of a direct confrontation with U.S. forces in Syria, saying that the Russian military would target areas occupied by American units and U.S.-backed militias if Moscow's troops come under fire.
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ISIS Leader Baghdadi 'Trapped' As Forces Gear Up To Take Mosul: Report
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been hiding in the group's besieged stronghold of Mosul, encircled by the Iraqi army and allied militias, a senior Kurdish commander told the Independent daily.
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US Allies Tighten Grip Around ISIS Stronghold In Syria
U.S.-backed militia drew within firing distance of the last road into an ISIS stronghold in northern Syria on Thursday, part of a wave of new offensives putting unprecedented pressure on the self-declared caliphate.
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Islamist Rebels Shoot Down Syrian Warplane, Capture Pilot: Monitor
Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian warplane and captured its pilot on Tuesday in an area south of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, a monitoring group said.
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Syria Army Closes In On Palmyra Ruins: Antiquities Chief
Syrian troops and allied militia pressed a major advance against jihadists in Palmyra today, coming within several hundred metres (yards) of the ancient city's famed ruins, the country's antiquities chief told Agence France Presse.
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Iraq Says Begins Offensive To Retake ISIS-Held Mosul
The Iraqi army said today its troops and allied militia had launched what is expected to be a long and difficult offensive to retake the second city of Mosul, the ISIS's main hub in Iraq.
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Barack Obama Calls Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan As Allies Row Over Syrian Kurds
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said US-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for a deadly suicide bombing this week.
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Syrian Army Captures Towns After Russian Strikes: Report
The Syrian army and allied militias, backed by Russian bombardments, took control of two towns in western Syria after heavy battles with Islamic State fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said today.
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US Delivers Ammunition to Syrian Arab Fighters Battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Syria Army Begins Offensive Near Aleppo With Russian Support
Syrian troops backed by Russian air power and allied militias opened a new front on Friday against rebels around the second city of Aleppo, where Washington said up to 2,000 Iran-backed forces were deployed.
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Syria Extends Major Offensive to Retake Territory in West
Syrian troops and allied militia backed by a fresh wave of Russian air strikes and cruise missiles fired from warships attacked rebel forces on Thursday as the government extended an offensive to recapture territory in the west of the country.
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Russia Drafting Thousands In Syria For Ukraine Deployment: War Monitor
Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor said Tuesday.
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Turkey Opens Ground Assault On Syria's Kurds; Republicans Turn On Trump
Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.
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Rape Used As Wide-Scale Weapon Of War In Syria: UN Report
Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
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Houthi Radio Station Says Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh Killed, No Confirmation
The radio station of Yemen's Houthi-controlled interior ministry said on Monday the militia's former war ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed though there was no independent confirmation as fierce combat battered the Yemeni capital.
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Russia Threatens Retaliatory Strikes Against US Troops And Their Allies In Syria
Russia on Thursday raised the threat of a direct confrontation with U.S. forces in Syria, saying that the Russian military would target areas occupied by American units and U.S.-backed militias if Moscow's troops come under fire.
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ISIS Leader Baghdadi 'Trapped' As Forces Gear Up To Take Mosul: Report
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been hiding in the group's besieged stronghold of Mosul, encircled by the Iraqi army and allied militias, a senior Kurdish commander told the Independent daily.
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US Allies Tighten Grip Around ISIS Stronghold In Syria
U.S.-backed militia drew within firing distance of the last road into an ISIS stronghold in northern Syria on Thursday, part of a wave of new offensives putting unprecedented pressure on the self-declared caliphate.
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Islamist Rebels Shoot Down Syrian Warplane, Capture Pilot: Monitor
Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian warplane and captured its pilot on Tuesday in an area south of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, a monitoring group said.
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Syria Army Closes In On Palmyra Ruins: Antiquities Chief
Syrian troops and allied militia pressed a major advance against jihadists in Palmyra today, coming within several hundred metres (yards) of the ancient city's famed ruins, the country's antiquities chief told Agence France Presse.
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Iraq Says Begins Offensive To Retake ISIS-Held Mosul
The Iraqi army said today its troops and allied militia had launched what is expected to be a long and difficult offensive to retake the second city of Mosul, the ISIS's main hub in Iraq.
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Barack Obama Calls Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan As Allies Row Over Syrian Kurds
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said US-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for a deadly suicide bombing this week.
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Syrian Army Captures Towns After Russian Strikes: Report
The Syrian army and allied militias, backed by Russian bombardments, took control of two towns in western Syria after heavy battles with Islamic State fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said today.
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US Delivers Ammunition to Syrian Arab Fighters Battling Islamic State
The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.
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Syria Army Begins Offensive Near Aleppo With Russian Support
Syrian troops backed by Russian air power and allied militias opened a new front on Friday against rebels around the second city of Aleppo, where Washington said up to 2,000 Iran-backed forces were deployed.
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Syria Extends Major Offensive to Retake Territory in West
Syrian troops and allied militia backed by a fresh wave of Russian air strikes and cruise missiles fired from warships attacked rebel forces on Thursday as the government extended an offensive to recapture territory in the west of the country.
