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Car bomb hits Syria regime stronghold of Latakia; one killed, over dozen wounded
A car bomb shook the Syrian regime's coastal stronghold of Latakia on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others, state news agency SANA reported. Authorities found a second explosive device in the same place and defused it just before it was ...
Islamic State claims suicide attack on Kurdish-U.S. convoy in Syria that killed five
A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of U.S. troops and their allies in Syria on Monday, killing five members of a Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group, a monitor said. The assault, claimed by IS jihadis, came less than a week after another deadly ...
A bomb planted on a public bus in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday. The blast came on the first anniversary of Operation Olive Branch, an air and ground assault by Turkey ...
Visiting Islamabad, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham says he'll ask Trump to meet Pakistan and Afghan leaders
U.S. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he will urge President Donald Trump to meet with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan so they can devise a plan to end Afghanistan's 17-year war, Americ's longest military engagement. Graham spoke at a news conference ...
Syria attack claimed by IS that killed 4 Americans raises questions about Trump's pullout plan
A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State that killed at least 16 people, including two U.S. service members and two American civilians, has raised questions on the U.S. military withdrawal just a month after President Donald Trump declared that IS had been defeated ...
Hours after U.S. troops are killed in Syria, Mike Pence claims Islamic State is defeated
Islamic State has been defeated in Syria, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, hours after Americans were killed in a northern Syria bomb attack claimed by the militant group. Pence did not mention the attack in his address to 184 chiefs of U.S. ...
Deadly Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria sends thousands fleeing
Thousands of people have fled a remote town in northeast Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday, after Boko Haram fighters attacked a military base and torched aid buildings. Monday's attack in Rann, in Borno state, has been blamed on the Islamic State West ...
Trump warns Turkey of economic devastation if it hits Kurd allies in Syria after U.S. exit
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks a U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria, weakening the Turkish lira and prompting sharp criticism from Ankara on Monday. Relations between the two NATO allies have been strained over U.S. backing for the Kurdish ...
Islamic State in 'its final moments,' says U.S.-backed Syrian force
Islamic State militants are "living their final moments" in the last enclave they hold near the Iraqi border, where U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are attacking them, an SDF official said on Sunday. A defeat of the jihadis in the enclave would wipe out Islamic ...
Pompeo 'optimistic' Syrian Kurds can be protected without risk to Turkey
Washington's top diplomat said Saturday he was "optimistic" a way could be found to protect Syrian Kurds while allowing Turks to "defend their country from terrorists" following a U.S. pullout from Syria. "We are confident we can achieve an outcome that achieves both of those," ...
U.S.-led coalition states that it is withdrawing equipment from Syria
Washington/Qamishli, Syria The U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State added to the confusion surrounding the U.S. withdrawal from Syria on Friday by declaring that it had started the pullout process, but U.S. officials later clarified that only equipment, not troops, had exited the country. U.S. President Donald ...
