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Syria Kurds Say US Decision To Arm Them Will Hasten ISIS Defeat
Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Syria said Wednesday that the "historic" US decision to provide them with arms and military equipment would speed up the jihadists' defeat.
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Turkey Angered By US Move To Arm Syrian Kurds
Turkey on Wednesday reacted furiously to a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the force battling jihadists said the move would hasten the extremists' defeat.
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Turkey Carries Out 57 Artillery Strikes In Northern Syria: Source
Turkish armed forces carried out 57 artillery strikes on 16 militant targets in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, a Turkish military source said on Monday.
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Turkish Jets, Artillery Bombard Targets In North Syria, Claim Sources
Turkish warplanes and artillery struck targets held by the Kurdish YPG militia in north Syria today, security sources said, as Turkey pressed on with a cross-border campaign launched last week with its Syrian rebel allies.
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Turkish Military Returns Fire In Syria After Shells Hit Border Town: Report
Turkey's military returned fire at Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday, after two mortar shells from Syria hit a Turkish border town, broadcaster NTV said, citing the military.
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Syrian Kurds Evacuate City As Battle With Bashar Al-Assad Intensifies
Syrian Kurdish authorities evacuated thousands of civilians from Kurdish areas of a city in northeastern Syria on a second day of government air strikes today, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said.
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US-Backed Syria Forces Launch Offensive For Manbij Pocket: US Officials
Thousands of US-backed fighters in Syria are launching an offensive to capture from ISIS a crucial swathe of northern Syria known as the Manbij pocket following weeks of quiet preparations, US officials disclosed to Reuters.
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Jewish Woman Who Helped Kurds Fight Islamic State Returns to Israel
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria's Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons.
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Syrian Kurds Retake Northern Villages From Islamic State: Report
Syrian Kurdish fighters have recaptured more than 10 villages seized by Islamic State north of its de facto capital of Raqqa city, aided by US-led coalition air strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today.
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Islamic State Recaptures Town From Kurdish Forces: Report
Islamic State fighters seized a Syrian town from Kurdish-led forces north of Raqqa city today, a group monitoring the war reported, two weeks after the jihadist group lost it to the Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes.
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Turkey Holds Security Meet After Speculation on Syria Action
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired a top security meeting today as media speculated that Ankara was planning a military intervention in Syria, following gains there by Kurds against the jihadists.
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At Least 145 Civilians Killed in Syria's Kobane Islamic State
Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres carried out by the hardline group in Syria.
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Kurds,Syrian Army Battle Islamic State in Northeast Syria: Report
Kurdish forces and the Syrian army fought separate battles with Islamic State around Hasaka city in northeast Syria overnight as the hardline group tried to capture more areas of the major urban centre near the Iraqi border, a monitor said today.
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Car Bomb Explodes in Syria's Kobani Near Turkish Border, Few Casualties: Official
A car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border gate today as Islamic State militants staged an attack from three sides of the town, a Kurdish YPG militia official told Reuters.
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Hundreds of Refugees Cross Back Into Syria From Turkey
Hundreds of Syrian refugees who had fled into Turkey crossed back today, witnesses said, as a border gate reopened a few days after Islamic State militants were ousted from the frontier town of Tel Abyad forces by Syrian Kurds.
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Syria Kurds Say US Decision To Arm Them Will Hasten ISIS Defeat
Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in Syria said Wednesday that the "historic" US decision to provide them with arms and military equipment would speed up the jihadists' defeat.
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Turkey Angered By US Move To Arm Syrian Kurds
Turkey on Wednesday reacted furiously to a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the force battling jihadists said the move would hasten the extremists' defeat.
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Turkey Carries Out 57 Artillery Strikes In Northern Syria: Source
Turkish armed forces carried out 57 artillery strikes on 16 militant targets in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, a Turkish military source said on Monday.
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Turkish Jets, Artillery Bombard Targets In North Syria, Claim Sources
Turkish warplanes and artillery struck targets held by the Kurdish YPG militia in north Syria today, security sources said, as Turkey pressed on with a cross-border campaign launched last week with its Syrian rebel allies.
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Turkish Military Returns Fire In Syria After Shells Hit Border Town: Report
Turkey's military returned fire at Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday, after two mortar shells from Syria hit a Turkish border town, broadcaster NTV said, citing the military.
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Syrian Kurds Evacuate City As Battle With Bashar Al-Assad Intensifies
Syrian Kurdish authorities evacuated thousands of civilians from Kurdish areas of a city in northeastern Syria on a second day of government air strikes today, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said.
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US-Backed Syria Forces Launch Offensive For Manbij Pocket: US Officials
Thousands of US-backed fighters in Syria are launching an offensive to capture from ISIS a crucial swathe of northern Syria known as the Manbij pocket following weeks of quiet preparations, US officials disclosed to Reuters.
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Jewish Woman Who Helped Kurds Fight Islamic State Returns to Israel
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria's Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons.
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Syrian Kurds Retake Northern Villages From Islamic State: Report
Syrian Kurdish fighters have recaptured more than 10 villages seized by Islamic State north of its de facto capital of Raqqa city, aided by US-led coalition air strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today.
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Islamic State Recaptures Town From Kurdish Forces: Report
Islamic State fighters seized a Syrian town from Kurdish-led forces north of Raqqa city today, a group monitoring the war reported, two weeks after the jihadist group lost it to the Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes.
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Turkey Holds Security Meet After Speculation on Syria Action
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired a top security meeting today as media speculated that Ankara was planning a military intervention in Syria, following gains there by Kurds against the jihadists.
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At Least 145 Civilians Killed in Syria's Kobane Islamic State
Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres carried out by the hardline group in Syria.
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Kurds,Syrian Army Battle Islamic State in Northeast Syria: Report
Kurdish forces and the Syrian army fought separate battles with Islamic State around Hasaka city in northeast Syria overnight as the hardline group tried to capture more areas of the major urban centre near the Iraqi border, a monitor said today.
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Car Bomb Explodes in Syria's Kobani Near Turkish Border, Few Casualties: Official
A car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border gate today as Islamic State militants staged an attack from three sides of the town, a Kurdish YPG militia official told Reuters.
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Hundreds of Refugees Cross Back Into Syria From Turkey
Hundreds of Syrian refugees who had fled into Turkey crossed back today, witnesses said, as a border gate reopened a few days after Islamic State militants were ousted from the frontier town of Tel Abyad forces by Syrian Kurds.
