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48 soldiers dead in ISIS-claimed Yemen attack

Forty-eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS in the southern port city of Aden, officials said Sunday in an updated casualty toll. "We have 48 dead and 29 wounded," all soldiers, Abdel Nasser al-Wali, health department chief for Aden, told AFP, revising an...

ISIS captures Palmyra castle overlooking ancient Syrian city

 ISIS fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said Sunday. Heavy Russian airstrikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise...

After Aleppo, Syria's Assad still far from regaining his state

When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The expected fall of Aleppo would mean...