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Syrian warplanes strike Homs, west Qalamoun

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Homs and in the western Qalamoun region on Thursday, a military media unit run by the regime's ally Hezbollah reported. The eight airstrikes in the rebel-held al-Waer in Homs killed seven people and caused injuries, it said. Although Homs, an...

Turkey to hit Syrian Kurd militia 'unless leaves Manbij'

Turkey Thursday threatened to strike Syrian Kurdish militia forces if they don't withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of ISIS extremists that has been taken over by predominantly-Kurdish forces. "We will strike the YPG if they do not retreat," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told...

ISIS pulls back from Syria's Palmyra

ISIS fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, activists said Thursday, but government forces paused before entering its ravaged ancient ruins because of mines. Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into a western neighborhood of the city late Wednesday...

Senior al Qaeda leader killed by CIA drone strike

A Hellfire missile fired by a CIA drone killed al-Qaeda leader Abu al-Khayr al-Masri late on Sunday while he was riding in a car near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, a U.S. intelligence official said on Wednesday. The 59-year-old al-Masri, whose real name was Abdullah Muhammed Rajab...