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Germany plans security investigations of all military recruits from July 2017 after its military counter-espionage service (MAD) identified 20 Islamists in the country’s armed forces, German media group Funke reported on Saturday. A spokesman for the agency confirmed the figure, adding that 60 additional potential […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The opposition monitoring Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, have been killed in the 8-day-old rebel offensive on the government-held part of Aleppo city. Opposition fighters launched a protracted attack on the western edge of […]

Three U.S. military trainers were killed by Jordanian security forces in an exchange of gun fire at an air base Friday, U.S. officials said. One of the service members was dead at the scene, and two died at a hospital in Amman after being transferred […]

Iraqi special forces said they recaptured six districts of eastern Mosul on Friday, expanding the army’s foothold in the Islamic State bastion a day after its leader told his jihadist followers there could be no retreat. An officer in the elite Counter Terrorism Service, which […]

PENTAGON — Fewer than 5,000 Islamic State fighters trying to hold onto the Iraqi city of Mosul are being urged to fight to the death. “Know that holding your ground with honor is a thousand times easier than retreating in shame,” the terror group’s leader and […]

PENTAGON — The United States is doubling-down on its Syrian allies, insisting they are capable of planning and launching an assault to dislodge the Islamic State terror group from its self-styled capital of Raqqa. For more than a week, officials have spoken of the urgent […]

Une énième trêve humanitaire a lieu à Alep où l’Etat syrien, comme stipulé dans l’accord, a ouvert deux passages afin que la population civile, notamment les plus vulnérables comme les blessés, les enfants et les personnes âgées, puissent sortir vers l’ouest d’Alep. Quant aux combattants, […]

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DAMASCUS, Syria — The guns were silent atop Mount Qasioun and the lights on its slopes twinkled over Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad ofSyria welcomed a group of Western visitors into his French-Ottoman palace on Monday night, presenting himself as a man firmly in control […]