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(Reuters) - A coalition air strike near the Iraqi border town of al-Qaim killed at least 17 Islamic State militants overnight, a hospital source said. The source in al-Qaim hospital said a further 29 militants were wounded in the strike and some were taken across the border...

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Wednesday with French parliamentarians, the first such meeting since France closed its embassy in 2012 and announced that Syria's leader had lost all legitimacy. The trip was not approved by the French parliament's foreign...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Hepatitis A is spreading in Wadi Barada area threatening the sources of drinking water supplying Damascus city, as cases of the disease hit 50 one. The infection had spread before in Southern Damascus towns...