BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 48 people including rebel fighters have been killed in Syrian government air bombardments around a town in the central province of Homs, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Two days of air strikes left women and children among the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of contaminated measles vaccines in rebel-held Idlib province has risen to 36 children, as tens still in critical condition, medical source in Jrjanaz Hospital said early Wednesday. The vaccines were provided by the...

(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Tuesday to authorize President Barack Obama's plan to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants, and lawmakers said the measure would likely pass Congress by the end of this week despite...

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n">(Reuters) - Many countries have said they support a coalition the United States hopes to build to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria , but most have been vague about any specific role they might play. Below is a list of some of the key countries that may...

(Reuters) - The Syrian military's air defenses would face retaliation if Syria attempted to respond to U.S. air strikes that are expected against Islamic State targets in Syria, senior U.S. officials said on Monday. President Barack Obama's authorization of the use of...

(Reuters) - Turkey's military is drawing up plans for a possible "buffer zone" on the country's southern border, where it faces a threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria , Turkish media quoted President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. The government will...

(Reuters) - As President Barack Obama knits together an international coalition to take its campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria , fighters like Ammar al-Wawi could make the difference. If he had the chance, he says. He fears that restrictions on the...

(Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights are pulling out from four positions and a camp on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Israeli border due to a severe deterioration of security in the region, the United Nations said on Monday. The decision to pull blue-helmeted...

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(Reuters) - Qatar has denied an accusation by Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni that it sent three military aircraft loaded with weapons to a Tripoli airport controlled by an armed opposition group. In a statement to Qatar's news agency (QNA), Assistant Foreign Minister...

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BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters captured more than a dozen villages from militants of the Islamic State group in heavy fighting across northeastern Syria, an activist group and a Kurdish official said Monday. The fighting in the mainly-Kurdish Hassakeh province came as diplomats at...

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These are Iker Casillas 's darkest hours at the Bernabéu. The whistles from large sections of the crowd during the derby left him looking like a sitting duck. What were once murmurings from a handful of ultras have grown into a clamour against the captain. The goalkeeper is...

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PARIS (Reuters) - Some 30 countries present at a Paris conference on Iraq agreed to provide Baghdad with "appropriate military aid" to combat insurgents of the Islamic State group, a statement issued after the talks said. The statement issued by French officials said tackling...