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Syria Kurds urge world to take back foreign jihadists

Syria's Kurds warned Sunday that the thousands of foreign jihadists they have detained in their fight against the Islamic State group are a time-bomb the international community urgently needs to defuse. Speaking a day after Kurdish-led forces announced the final demise of the jihadists'...

Tahrir al-Sham tracks Daesh militants in Bennish town

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted late on Saturday between powerful Tahrir al-Sham group and Daesh militants in the northern town of Bennish, leaving a child dead, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu al-Harreth, the security officer of Tahrir al-Sham, told Zaman al-Wasl the...

Driver working with NBC News killed in Syria

A driver working with an NBC News crew in Syria has been killed by an explosive device in eastern Syria, where several media outlets are covering the liberation of the last sliver of territory held by Daesh (ISIS). Noah Oppenheim, the president of NBC News, said in a statement that NBC...

Syrian state media says rebels shell village with gas, injuring 21

Syrian state media on Saturday cited a hospital in government-held Hama as saying 21 people suffered choking symptoms from poison gas after rebels shelled a village. A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said 21 people were hospitalized with choking...