There is devastation in several parts of Baghdad after a series of bomb attacks that killed at least two dozen people on Monday night. Nine people died in car bomb explosions that targeted mosques in the Iraqi capital’s predominantly Shi’ite districts of Amil and Karrada. In the...
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The military commander of Jund al-Islam, Faisal Dawood Okla, has been killed by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the besieged village of al-Zara in Homs province, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. Okla escaped from the Lebanese...
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The evacuation of civilians from Syria's Homs city has halted, with no new efforts to extend a truce and the governor saying Sunday "armed groups" prevented operations a day earlier. In a statement, Talal Barazi said "the evacuation of civilians was not carried...