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Enhanced Iran-Syria economic ties key to foiling West plots: Assad
May 18, 2018 12:43Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the development of economic cooperation with Iran and all the countries that insist on defending their sovereignty and independence is one of the most important ways to confront Western plots.
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Putin, Assad declare Syria ready for political process
May 18, 2018 03:26Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his Syrian counterpart that the situation in Syria is now favorable for the beginning of a "political process."
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Chlorine gas probably used in attack in Syria's Idlib: OPCW
May 16, 2018 09:19The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says poisonous chlorine gas was “likely used as a chemical weapon” in an attack earlier this year in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Province, the major stronghold of Takfiri militants active in the country.
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Iraq launches airstrike on strategic Daesh positions in Syria
May 14, 2018 11:52Iraqi military aircraft have pounded a strategic positions of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledges to continue airstrikes on the strongholds of the extremists in the neighboring war-ravaged country.
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Takfiri terrorists hand over Israeli-made munitions to Syrian troops
May 12, 2018 14:08Foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists have handed over large quantities of munitions and explosive devices, some of them Israeli-made, before their evacuation from towns south of the Syrian capital Damascus to the country’s north.
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Four Hashd Sha’abi fighters killed in bomb attack in central Iraq amid ongoing voting
May 12, 2018 09:23At least four members of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units have lost their lives and three others sustained injuries when a bomb went off in Iraq's central province of Salahuddin as voting is underway across the country to elect the next parliament.
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Russia 'not in talks' with Syria to supply S-300, says top Kremlin aide
May 11, 2018 10:48Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 missile defense systems to Syria in an effort to bolster the war-torn Arab nation’s defensive capabilities, a top Kremlin aide says.
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Iraqis go to polls Saturday in first elections since victory over Daesh
May 11, 2018 05:38Iraqis are heading to key parliamentary elections on Saturday in their first vote since the country declared victory over the Daesh terrorist group some five months ago.
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Iraq used Baghdadi aide's cell phone to capture top Daesh commanders
May 10, 2018 14:29A high-ranking Iraqi security official says authorities are holding a top aide to the purported leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and have used a messaging application on his mobile phone to nab four commanders of the militant outfit.
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Syrian army says destroyed most of Israeli rockets
May 10, 2018 10:09The Syrian army command says its air defense systems have managed to intercept and destroy the biggest part of a "successive wave" of Israeli rockets fired at military bases in the Arab country.