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Islamic State reactivating fighters, eying comeback in Syria and Iraq
DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...
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Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades ...
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Iraq sends 20 firefighting teams to help combat massive wildfires in Latakia, Syria
Iraq's Civil Defense is sending 20 specialized firefighting teams to Syria to help combat unprecedented wildfires raging in ...
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Iraq sends firefighters and water tankers to battle Syria forest fires
Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...
Syria 2025 Is Iraq All Over Again | Opinion
The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...
Syria’s government and Kurds still at odds over merging forces after latest talks, US envoy says
A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...
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ISIS goes back on offense in Syria, Iraq and Libya as fights for Raqqa ...
BEIRUT -- Even as internationally backed forces chip away at ISIS-held territory in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the militants have demonstrated a stubborn resilience this week in the face of recent ...
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Leader of ISIS in Iraq and Syria killed in military ... - CBS News
The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...
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US missions against ISIS up in Iraq and Syria, body count down
US troops have carried out 387 missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria so far this year, compared with 313 operations in all of 2022. The US has conducted more missions against ISIS in Iraq and ...
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In Iraq and Syria, a new phase of the war against Islamic State begins
In both Iraq and Syria, Islamic State fighters began to disperse in 2017, long before Kurdish-led fighters retook the group’s last morsel of territory in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, ...
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Syria and Iraq Say U.S. Strikes Killed Civilians - The New York Times
The aftermath of the U.S. military strikes targeting sites in Syria and Iraq began coming into focus on Saturday morning as a Britain-based Syria monitoring group said that at least 18 members of ...
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Iraq, Syria, and ISIS: What It All Means - ABC News
How the ISIS offensive in Iraq will impact Syria's war. — -- As Twitter photos from jihadi fighters showed fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) driving tanks through a ...