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Syria’s army deployed near the Turkish border on Monday, hours after Syrian Kurdish forces previously allied with the U.S. said they had reached a deal with Damascus to help them fend off Turkey’s invasion. CBC | World News
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Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seize border town’s centre
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized control of Ras al-Ayn’s town centre in northeast Syria on Saturday, a senior Turkish security official said as Turkey’s offensive against a Kurdish militia in the region entered its fourth day. CBC | World News
Read More »ISIS capital Raqqa liberated by Syrian forces
A commander with the U.S.-backed Syrian forces battling ISIS says the city of Raqqa has been liberated from militants and that combing operations are underway to clear the city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells. CBC | World News
Read More »Syrian government forces seize ISIS-held town of Mayadeen
Syria state media say pro-government troops have seized the town of Mayadeen, an ISIS stronghold in the country’s east, after weeks of fighting with the militants. CBC | World News
Read More »Syrian hospitals hit in worst fighting since battle for Aleppo, Red Cross says
Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year, with heavy airstrikes causing hundreds of civilian casualties, aid agencies say. CBC | World News
Read More »28 killed in overnight airstrikes in Syrian village
Overnight airstrikes killed 28 people, including four children, in a village in rebel-held Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. CBC | World News
Read More »Refugee Advocate Benedict Cumberbatch Explains Why He Ruled Out Bringing Syrian Refugees Into His Own Home
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is known as a vocal advocate for Syrian refugee relief. After performances of Hamlet in London at the height of the crisis, for example, he implored the audience in the theater to pass the hat and contribute cash to help displaced Syrian children. At one curtain call, using an expletive, he denounced British politicians for their ...
Read More »Russia shows off captured ISIS ‘suicide tanks’ in Syrian desert
Russia’s military showed off what it claims is a captured ISIS “tank factory,” taking international media — including a crew from CBC News — deep into Syria’s desert to the town of Okeirbat. CBC | World News
Read More »Syrian refugee denied asylum responsible for apparent bomb attack in Germany
A man who blew himself up and injured 12 people outside Ansbach, Germany, after being turned away from an open-air music festival was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum, Bavaria’s top security official said early Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »GERMANY BOMB HORROR: 12 injured as Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside hotspot
AT LEAST 12 people have been injured after a Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a wine bar in Germany. Daily Express :: News Feed
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