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A US F-16 fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone, taking out another NATO ally's aircraft over Syria
The US aircraft downed the drone because it was considered a threat to US troops in northeastern Sy…
Jake Epstein
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Biden orders airstrikes against infrastructure used by 'Iranian-backed militant groups' in Syria
The Department of Defense said the strikes were carried out at the president's direction following …
Charles Davis
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Syria's White Helmets are famous for rescuing people from bombed buildings. When the earthquake struck, they knew what to do.
Syria's White Helmets told Insider they are no strangers to digging people out of the rubble as the…
Alia Shoaib
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US military strikes fell 54% in Biden's first year compared to Trump's last, monitoring group says
"The biggest take-home is that Biden has significantly decreased US military action across the glob…
Charles Davis
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Biden says ISIS leader blew himself up during US military raid in 'final act of desperate cowardice,' killing family members
Syria Civil Defence said in a statement that it had recovered the bodies of 13 people, including si…
Jake Epstein,John Haltiwanger
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Putin's Ukraine playbook is familiar he used it in Syria
Putin's playbook in Syria and now in Ukraine includes: bombing hospitals, a disinformation campaign…
Mohamad Bazzi
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The US just got out of Afghanistan and it's already at risk of getting sucked into another country's war
Opinion: If the US isn't careful, deepening its security relationship with Pakistan could drag the …
Daniel DePetris, Defense Prio…
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Turkey and the Assad regime kill at least 21, mostly civilians, in northern Syria in airstrikes
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, put the number of those kille…
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes,Reu…
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A key air defense system wasn't working right when a drone killed an American in Syria, pushing the US to retaliate with force
The Pentagon said the one-way unmanned aerial vehicle that hit a coalition base is suspected to be …
Jake Epstein
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The US's Syrian partners are still guarding hundreds of ISIS prisoners
"The Kurds are legit good fighters and they are very easy to work with," a US Army Green Beret told…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A secretive US special-operations base in Syria is taking fire from a shadowy Middle East war
US troops at al-Tanf in Syria have been fighting ISIS since 2016, but the base has become a focal p…
Rachel Nostrant
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Another helicopter went down on a US special-ops raid. Here's how elite aviators prepare for that worst-case scenario.
For the Night Stalkers, the risk of a crash is omnipresent during these kinds of operations, but th…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A former Kansas teacher led an all-female ISIS battalion and planned a terrorist attack on a US college, prosecutors say
Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, 42, was previously apprehended in Syria and transferred to FBI custo…
Ashley Collman
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ISIS fighters reportedly surrender after using 700 boys as human shields during a battle at a prison in Syria
Media outlets and NGOs said they received voice messages from the imprisoned boys who asked for hel…
Matthew Loh
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Putin called Netanyahu to warn against further airstrikes in Syria
Israeli officials confirmed the phone call, reported Haaretz, adding that Netanyahu said Israel wou…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Disaster is unfolding in Syria as videos emerge of US allies being slaughtered and hundreds of ISIS prisoners escape during airstrikes
A Turkish army armored vehicle advances in Syrian city of Tel Abyad, as seen from the Turkish borde…
Kat Tenbarge
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Russia's air defenses can't stop Israel from stomping on Iran in Syria with airstrikes
Russia thinks highly of its S-300 and other missile defenses, and has publicly mocked the US over i…
Alex Lockie
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A tablet computer and a 'shopping list' reveal how Russia might take on the US without starting a real war
Great-power competition among near-peer states - namely the US, China, and Russia - is bringing a r…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Planes are avoiding Syria in case they get caught in a US airstrike on Assad
Eurocontrol said: "Due to the possible launch of air strikes into Syria with air-to-ground and/or c…
Alexandra Ma
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America's 20-year war on terror has killed up to 929,000 people and cost over $8 trillion: report
At least 387,072 civilians have been killed in direct war violence during America's global war on t…