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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is beefing up its use of fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a senior defense…
Read more US sending F-16 fighter jets to protect ships from Iranian seizures in Gulf regionBEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than a year, killing dozens of civilians and security officers in the deserts…
Read more IS attacks on Syria truffle hunters are deadliest in a yearBEIRUT — The United Arab Emirates’ top diplomat met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday, his second visit to Damascus as relations continue to thaw between the…
Read more UAE top diplomat back in Syria as relations continue to thawANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s defense minister said Wednesday that Turkish and Russian troops could “expand” their joint patrols in northern Syria as part of efforts to bring security…
Read more Turkish, Russian forces could ‘expand’ Syria joint patrolsBEIRUT — Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport of the capital Damascus early Monday, putting it out of service and killing two soldiers and wounding two…
Read more Israeli missile strikes put Damascus airport out of serviceRAQQA, Syria — Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The single mother of four says people look at her with suspicion…
Read more Former IS families face neighbors’ hatred returning homeANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish, Syrian and Russian defense ministers have held previously unannounced talks in Moscow, the Turkish and Russian defense ministries said on Wednesday. It was…
Read more Turkish, Syrian, Russian defense chiefs hold surprise talksTwo soldiers were injured by Israeli airstrikes in the vicinity of the Syrian capital of Damascus early Tuesday, the first such attack in more than a month, a…
Read more Syria reports two soldiers injured in Israeli airstrikesBEIRUT — After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and international players are trying to gauge whether Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion are…
Read more EXPLAINER: What’s at stake in Turkey’s new Syria escalationUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for Syria warned Tuesday that the current military escalation in Syria is dangerous for civilians and regional stability, and he urged…
Read more UN envoy: Military escalation in Syria is `dangerous’ANKARA — Turkey’s president again hinted at a possible new ground offensive in Syria against Kurdish militants on Tuesday, as Syrian forces denounced new airstrikes and Russia urged…
Read more Turkey hints new Syria offensive; Russia urges restraintOpposition war monitors say Syrian government forces have shelled a tent settlement housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest, killing at least six people…
Read more Monitors say 6 killed in Syria’s shelling of tent settlementALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Kansas native who led an all-female Islamic State battalion when she lived in Syria has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum…
Read more Kansas mom gets 20 years for leading Islamic State battalionDAMASCUS, Syria — Two senior officials from the Palestinian militant Hamas group visited Syria’s capital on Wednesday for the first time since they were forced to leave the…
Read more Militant Hamas group back in Damascus after years of tension
