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1/25/2022 12:36:15 PM
US-backed Kurdish forces tightened the noose around armed jihadists hunkering down inside a Syrian prison Tuesday, with both sides facing a bloodbath or talks to end the five-day-old standoff.
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1/24/2022 2:25:53 PM
An Islamic State group attack on a Syrian prison, the jihadists' largest operation in the country in years, has fuelled fears it foreshadows a fully-fledged comeback for the extremists.
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1/23/2022 4:24:16 PM
Clashes between US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants continued for a fourth day Sunday near a prison in northeastern Syria that houses thousands of members of the Islamic State group, the Kurdish force said.
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1/22/2022 1:51:16 PM
Intense clashes between Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters backed by US-led coalition, and Islamic State group militants, around Gweiran prison in northeast Syria where thousands of extremists were held, officials said.
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1/21/2022 1:17:34 PM
A rocket attack on a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed six civilians and wounded over a dozen people on Thursday, Syrian rescuers and a war monitor said. Both blamed U.S-backed Syrian Kurdish forces for the attack.
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1/18/2022 11:49:11 AM
As Iraq's Shia leaders jostle to secure a majority in the newly-elected parliament, Sunni and Kurdish minorities have been caught up in a spate of warning grenade attacks, analysts say.
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1/10/2022 10:30:45 PM
Iraqi authorities have repatriated 111 Iraqi families linked to the Islamic State group from a Kurdish-run camp in northern Syria, a local official said on Monday.
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12/26/2021 7:15:00 PM
The bodies of 16 Iraqi Kurdish migrants who drowned last month as they attempted to cross the English Channel were repatriated to northern Iraq on Sunday.
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12/17/2021 2:38:30 PM
As a backhoe dug up the ground to build trenches, Iraqi soldiers scanned the vast farming tracts for militants; not far away, their Kurdish counterparts did the same.
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12/13/2021 5:11:12 PM
Kurdish special forces backed by the US military killed five suspected jihadists in an airborne operation in eastern Syria, a statement said Monday.
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12/9/2021 5:47:51 PM
Three Turkish soldiers died Thursday in an attack in northern Iraq launched by outlawed Kurdish militants, prompting a retaliatory air strike, the Turkish defense ministry said.
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12/8/2021 5:21:48 PM
Iraqi authorities Wednesday repatriated 100 Iraqi fighters from the Islamic State jihadist group who were being held by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, a senior Iraqi security official said.
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11/28/2021 11:32:10 AM
Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and four wounded in a roadside bombing blamed on the Islamic State group, regional authorities said on Sunday.
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11/1/2021 10:08:10 PM
US President Joe Biden said there's only a ``fifty-fifty'' chance that the US Congress and Senate would approve a Turkish request to buy American-made F-16 warplanes, but pledged to do ``his best'' to ensure that the sale goes through, Turkey's president said on Monday.
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10/28/2021 2:57:00 PM
Al-Ahram Weekly spoke to the Kurdish-Swedish filmmaker Hogir Hirori on the sidelines of El Gouna Film Festival.
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10/12/2021 10:23:13 PM
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9/20/2021 8:38:10 PM
According to IRNA, in response to recent actions by 'counter-revolutionary' groups, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) stroke the headquarters of the militants in northern Iraq last week by rockets and missiles
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8/18/2021 7:48:58 PM
The violence is the latest in northern Syria, which has seen tensions for days between the two sides there
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8/7/2021 8:24:28 PM
Iran's oldest Kurdish separatist party, now based in neighbouring Iraq, accused Tehran of murdering one of its leaders
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8/4/2021 4:40:03 PM
The autonomous Kurdish administration condemned Wednesday's attack, saying it was intended 'to shake stability in our region and terrorise residents'
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