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Up to two million Syrians could flee to Turkey if clashes worsen - UN
Syria’s Russian-backed military has been pressing an assault on rebels in their last major stronghold with air attacks and ground battles that have already forced tens of thousands to leave their homes.
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Second Israeli strikes hit Syria as Trump calls for bombs to stop
Syria accused Israel of targeting an airbase in Homs province, reportedly killing five people, just hours after carrying out retaliatory attacks on military and intelligence posts south of Damascus, killing 10.
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Monitor says no evidence of new Syria chemical attack
The northern mountains are the only part of Latakia province, on Syria's Mediterranean coast, that are no firmly in the hands of the government.
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Shiraaz Mohamed’s family hopeful of safe return from captivity
Mohamed was captured two years ago in Syria while travelling with humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers on a relief mission.
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Abducted SA journalist Mohamed's family in 'constant contact' with officials
Shiraaz Mohamed was kidnapped two years ago in Syria on suspicion of being a foreign spy and has been in captivity ever since.
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Volatility keeps Dirco quiet on Shiraaz Mohamed survival video
Shiraaz Mohamed was abducted in January 2017 when documenting the conditions of the Syrian people since civil war broke out in 2011.
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Abducted SA journalist pleads for help in survival video
Abducted South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed says he fears for his life in a video received by the Gift of the Givers. The organisation received the video earlier this month which it says is a promising move towards bringing the journalist back to South Africa.
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Amnesty, monitors say US-led coalition killed 1,600 civilians in Syria's Raqqa
Amnesty and Airwars spent 18 months researching civilian deaths including two months on the ground in Raqqa, they said.
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15 dead in huge blast in northwest Syria
Thirteen civilians were among those killed in the blast, the cause of which was not immediately clear, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Russian envoys meet Syria's Assad, discuss post-war efforts, trade
Russia has been a close ally of Assad and in 2015 launched a military intervention there to support his forces, turning the tide of the war in Assad’s favor.
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US isolated at UN Security Council over Golan decision
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move the 15-member UN Security Council declared 'null and void and without international legal effect.'
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Syria requests urgent UN Security Council meeting on Golan
The council is scheduled to discuss the latest crisis on Wednesday during a meeting on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force deployed between Israel and Syria in the Golan, known as UNDOF.
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Islamic State defeated, 'caliphate' eliminated says US ally in Syria
The final battle lasted weeks as huge numbers of civilians poured out, and for many Kurdish fighters in the SDF, victory was sweeter as it coincided with their “Now Ruz” new year.
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Islamic State '100%' defeated in Syria - Trump
Donald Trump made the comment as he showed reporters maps of the region, one showing the large areas once held by the group and a second that showed the situation on Friday with no presence.
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South African doctor killed in Syria airstrike - report
Doctor Feroz Ganchi was working in a refugee camp in the besieged country.
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3,000 surrender from IS Syria bastion as end nears
A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a once-sprawling IS group's "caliphate" declared in 2014 across large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
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Baby of Islamic State teenager in UK furor dies
Shamima Begum, whose first two children also died, was stripped of her British citizenship last month on security grounds after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria.
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Hundreds flee Syria jihadist enclave before final assault
The so-called Islamic State is only days away from dying in a tiny village that until recently, few even in Syria had ever heard of.
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Europeans reject Trump's call to repatriate Syria jihadists
In London, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said the IS foreign fighters should be tried where they are captured.
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IS defends final pocket of dying 'caliphate' in Syria
Diehard IS jihadists are trapped in their last patch of territory of less than half a square kilometre in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
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Timeline - The rise and fall of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
This timeline chronicles Islamic State's lightning rise, cruel reign and stubborn fall.
