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(Reuters) - Gulf Arab states have demanded the restoration of government authority in Yemen , issuing a thinly veiled criticism of rebels with ties to Iran who have taken control of the capital, Sanaa. Fighters from the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement seized Sanaa on Sept. 21...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced in May 2013 that no lethal strike against a terrorist would be authorized without "near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured." But amid unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties, the White House said this week...
By Ayla Jean Yackley and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey signalled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition jets launched air strikes on Wednesday on insurgents besieging...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The recent deaths of Syrian children after receiving measles vaccinations was the result of a "mistake" by a non-governmental partner who mixed in a muscle relaxant meant for anesthesia, a spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general said Wednesday. But Stephane...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughters in a street littered with school bags...
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State beheaded seven men and three women in a northern Kurdish area of Syria, a human rights monitoring group said on Wednesday, part of what it described as a campaign to frighten residents resisting the militant group's advance. The...
MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched air strikes on Islamic State fighters who are besieging a Kurdish town near the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday, Kurdish sources in the town and a monitoring group said, a rare daylight coalition attack. A Reuters...
Damascus (AFP) - Twin car bomb explosions in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday killed at least 18 people, mostly children, and wounded 40 others, state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, reported the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels' latest advance in the strategic town of Harasta, 4 miles away from the capital center, has startled Syrian regime armed troops since they found their stubborn headquarters of air-forces intelligence being under constant heavy shelling....
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Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Political Body of the National Coalition has issued an order to sack Adnan Hazori, the Minister of Health in the Interim Government , and Suhair Atasi, Head of the Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU), besides many employees, following...
ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since U.S. forces began bombing the Islamists. The...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has met with Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the Lebanese movement said Tuesday. In a statement, Hezbollah said the two sides had discussed political and security developments in the Middle East...
By Esra Kaymak Avci “Social and perceived discrimination” is the reason why young people from Europe are going overseas to join dangerous extremist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. This is according to a Europe-based researcher who claims that...
Islamic State insurgents are advancing on a tomb in northern Syria regarded by Turkey as sovereign territory and guarded by Turkish soldiers, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Tuesday, Reuters said. Ankara sees the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the...
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BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say the U.S.-led coalition has struck targets of the Islamic State group near a besieged Kurdish town along Syria's border with Turkey. It was not immediately clear if Tuesday's airstrikes succeeded in halting the militants' advance on Koubani, also known...
