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Lebanon Military Tribunal sentences Takfiri preacher to death for attacks on army
Sep 28, 2017 17:32Lebanon's Military Tribunal has sentenced an extremist preacher to death for his role in fueling sectarian violence in the Arab country and organizing attacks against members of the army.
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US-led warplanes drop white phosphorus bombs in northeast Syria
Sep 27, 2017 14:22The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has reportedly dropped internationally-banned white phosphorus bombs in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, leaving a number of civilians dead and injured.
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Iraqi forces thwart Daesh attack in Ramadi
Sep 27, 2017 11:23Iraq’s army, police, and Popular Mobilization forces have foiled a push by the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh to stage a comeback in Ramadi, the capital of the western Iraq Anbar Province.
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Russia says killed 5 senior Nusra commanders in air raid in Idlib
Sep 27, 2017 10:19Russia says it has killed five prominent field commanders of the al-Nusra Front terrorist group, who organized an attack against Russian forces in Syria’s western Hama Province earlier this month.
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Iraqi parliament demands troops be deployed to areas disputed with Kurds
Sep 25, 2017 12:59Iraqi lawmakers have demanded deployment of government troops to areas disputed with Kurds amid rising tensions between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government over a controversial independence referendum.
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US airstrikes killed 84 civilians at school, market in Syria in March: HRW
Sep 25, 2017 10:38Human Rights Watch says the US killed at least 84 civilians, including scores of children, in airstrikes on a school and market near the northern Syrian city of Raqqah in March.
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Over 2,800 Syrian civilians killed in US-led airstrikes in 3 years: SOHR
Sep 24, 2017 14:32A monitoring group says more than 2,800 civilians have lost their lives in three years as the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh Takfiri terrorist group continues its aerial assaults against residential areas across Syria.
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Hashd al-Sha’abi not waiting for Peshmerga's permission to free Daesh-held areas: Cmdr.
Sep 24, 2017 11:52A high-ranking commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units says the pro-government fighters will not wait for the permission of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to liberate areas still under control of Daesh, including the town of Hawijah in the country’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
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Algeria says Syria must return to Arab League
Sep 24, 2017 10:13Algeria has urged Syria’s return to the Arab League, and asked Persian Gulf Arab states involved in a diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to work towards mending their ties.
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Syrian army, allies make new advances against Daesh in Dayr al-Zawr
Sep 23, 2017 13:10Syrian government forces, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have made fresh territorial gains against Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.