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Germany will not arm Syrian Kurds fighting ISIL

Germany will not arm Syrian Kurdish forces fighting ISIL because of the risk of weaponry falling into the wrong hands, the country’s foreign ministry said. "The risk of the seizure of German weapons by the ‘wrong’ groups is way too big,” Deputy Spokeswoman Sawsan...

Kurdish fighters head to Syria to face militants

BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurdish fighters raced from Turkey and Iraq into neighboring Syria on Saturday to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. As the fighting raged, more than 60,000 mostly Kurdish refugees streamed across the dusty and barren border...

Assad forces attack rebel-held town near Damascus

Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) Syrian forces Saturday started a wide-scale offensive on a key rebel-held Syrian city northeast of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Syrian Air Force carried out eight airstrikes on Adra and the nearby Tal Kurdi,...