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April 3, 2017

Syria's conflict: More war crimes, more peace talks-and more radicalization by Russian design

Amid a hailstorm of poison gas attacks, Russian cluster bombings, and displacements of tens of thousands of refugees—all actions judged by the United Nations to be war crimes—Syria’s long-running civil war has returned to extreme levels of brutality, even as U.N. officials continue to place wan hopes on a near-comatose peace process in Geneva.

April 2, 2017

Son of hook-handed preacher Abu Hamza says he was stripped of UK passport

Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza’s jihadi son claims he has been stripped of his U.K. passport by the Home Office.

March 29, 2017

More US troops may be needed for fight against ISIS near Raqqa, general says

More U.S. troops might be needed in Syria to support local fighters on the ground battling ISIS near their capital of Raqqa, the top U.S. general for American forces in the Middle East told Congress Wednesday.

March 29, 2017

US service member dies of 'natural causes' in Syria, US military says

The United States-led coalition says an American service member has died of "natural causes" in Northern Syria Wednesday.

March 28, 2017

Syrian man, 25, found hanged in Greece with political asylum papers still on him

A 25-year-old man, with his political asylum documents still on him, was found hanged near a port in Athens.

March 26, 2017

US-backed forces seize Syrian air base from ISIS

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces captured a strategically important air base from Islamic State (ISIS) militants in north Syria on Sunday in the first major victory for the group since the U.S. airlifted the forces behind enemy lines four days ago.

March 26, 2017

US-backed forces battling for ISIS-held air base in Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces began their assault on an Islamic State-held air base in northern Syria on Sunday, activists said, as reports circulated that residents were evacuating the nearby city of Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital.

March 24, 2017

Social justice 'warriors' jump into Kurdish-Syrian struggle

Scores of military-minded westerners have flocked to the Kurdish-dominated enclave of Syria in recent years – armed and ready to defeat the jihadist threat that is the Islamic State.

March 23, 2017

US military conducts air assault in Syria against ISIS, a first

For the first time since the start of the war against the Islamic State terror group, the U.S. military deployed American-trained Syrian forces via helicopter outside Raqqa -- a tactic known as an "air assault," a military spokesman said.

March 21, 2017

Syrian troops respond as rebels renew attack on Damascus

Airstrikes and artillery fire shook Damascus on Tuesday as government forces tried to repel a second rebel attack on the Syrian capital in three days.