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BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria where thousands more civilians and rebels are expected to leave the eastern part of the city of Aleppo under a key cease-fire deal (all times local): 10:25 p.m. An official with Syria’s main opposition group […]

The United States on Friday more than doubled its previous reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, offering $25 million for information that would help locate, arrest or convict the head of the jihadist group.   The US State Department’s Rewards for […]

The evacuation of people from the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended Friday after pro-government militias demanded that the wounded should also be brought out of two Shiite villages being besieged by rebel fighters. ALEPPO/BEIRUT: The evacuation of the last […]

Un correspondant et un député syriens ont décrit l’évolution du contexte humanitaire sur les territoires libérés d’Alep. Une situation à mille lieues des rapports réalisés par les ONG dites humanitaires… Les terroristes opérant Alep faisaient des fortune en vendant de l’aide humanitaire aux civils, a […]

HAMAM ALIL, IRAQ/KHAZIR, IRAQI KURDISTAN — Islamic State “would kill us without dignity,” says Raith Ahmed, an English teacher and a father of two. “That means throwing out bodies to the dogs.” As he talks, Ahmed picks through debris in Hamam Alil, Iraq, from what once […]

Traces of explosives were found on some of the victims of the EgyptAir crash in May, Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry said. According to a ministry statement Thursday, state prosecutors are expected to take over the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 that killed […]

In an unusual display of public candor, Iranian authorities have said in recent speeches that Islamic State infiltrators are becoming a growing threat to the Islamic Republic. At least three times in recent months, Iranian officials have spoken about breaking up IS-related terror cells and […]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said that history would be made with what he referred to as the “liberation of Aleppo.” “What is happening today is the writing of a history written by every Syrian citizen. The writing did not start today. It started […]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday the world would be different after what he called the “liberation of Aleppo”, describing it as a historic moment. “What is happening today is the writing of a history written by every Syrian citizen. The writing did not […]