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Syria Kurds beef up anti-Daesh front: activists

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have arrived in eastern Syria to help a U.S.-backed alliance fight Daesh (ISIS) after a major setback last week, an activist group said Tuesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the U.S.-led coalition, launched an...

Poison gas and horror warfare: World War I’s weapon of terror

On April 22, 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of terror on the Western Front. World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons...

Syrian Kurds boost fight against Daesh in east after setback

 Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the militants recovered ground from U.S.-backed forces in a fierce counter attack. Daesh launched the assault against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic...