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Death and despair in last IS Syria bastion

Torched tents, a rain of bullets, the thunderous whoosh of warplanes muffling the call to prayer: survivors say life inside the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" was a bleak catalogue of despair. The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black...

Aid reaches Manbij for 1st time from regime-held areas: UN

A convoy carrying aid for 50,000 people reached the northern Syrian city of Manbij Thursday, in the first such delivery from regime-held territory, the United Nations said. The U.N. and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent sent 37 trucks loaded with "862 metric tons of food, non-food items,...