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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet Monday night for their first debate in a virtual dead heat in the race for the White House, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with the Democratic nominee’s August advantage erased after recent difficulties and the […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, his spokesman says. Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general was alarmed by reports of air strikes involving incendiary weapons and bunker-busting bombs. The Syrian government has stepped up […]

KOYA, Iraq (AP) — The main Kurdish insurgent group in Iran will keep up its guerrilla campaign against security forces “to protect and defend” Kurds living there, its deputy leader said, calling the fight necessary after the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal with world powers. A […]

Samarra (Iraq) (AFP) – Militants killed 12 people in gun and bomb attacks on Saturday in the northern city of Tikrit, police said, with the Islamic State group later claiming responsibility for the violence. IS seized Tikrit in June 2014, but the city has largely […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — An unlikely array of forces is converging on the city of Mosul, lining up for a battle on the historic plains of northern Iraq that is likely to be decisive in the war against the Islamic State group. The usual alliance — […]

Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil emphasized the importance of not neglecting the issue of Syrian refugees, suggesting that this issue be included as a part of the political and peaceful solution in Syria. During his intervention at a meeting of the International Support Group for Syria […]

WASHINGTON — Setting up a potential override by Congress, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Obama cited the potential for the popular bipartisan bill to backfire against the […]

Syrian and Russian warplanes continued to target terrorist groups’ concentration centers in at least seven districts of Aleppo city, paving the way for the ground troops to raid militants’ positions. Syrian and Russian fighter jets, for the second day in a row, pounded terrorists’ strongholds […]

ISTANBUL — The U.S.-supported, Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces this week suffered a series of military setbacks to the Islamic State group in northern Syria, rekindling concerns over the effectiveness of the troops and whether that could force Ankara to deploy more of its […]