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A DOCTOR'S EVERYDAY REALITY IN SYRIA
He is now working in northern Syria, a region gripped by instability, and shares his day-to-day reality of trying to keep victims of war alive... READ MORE›
'COME OUT AND SURRENDER': ON THE GROUND IN RAQQA WITH FIGHTERS WHO OUSTED ISIS
Hundreds of die-hard Islamic State fighters there were using thousands of civilians as human shields... READ MORE›
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ISIS WOMEN IN SYRIA RECOUNT ANGUISH AND ESCAPE
The Islamic State wrested full control of Raqqa and made the city its command center, violently consolidating its authority... READ MORE›
TURKEY ENTERS SYRIA TO REMOVE PRECIOUS SULEYMAN SHAH TOMB
Suleyman Shah, who lived from about 1178 to 1236, was grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire, Osman I... READ MORE›
U.S. MILITARY AID IS FUELING BIG AMBITIONS FOR SYRIA'S LEFTIST KURDISH MILITIA
Recruits at a graduation ceremony after completing military training provided by U.S. Special Forces in the countryside of Syria's Aleppo province... READ MORE›
ISIS FIGHTER REVEALS GROUP'S PLAN TO SPREAD EVEN AFTER DEFEAT IN IRAQ AND SYRIA AND CLAIMS COLLUSION WITH TURKEY
However, when Isis fighters entered Faraj's village and offered the young men a choice of leaving or joining them, he opted to join Isis... READ MORE›
IS THIS AMERICA'S WORST ERROR IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE IRAQ WAR?
Turkey conflict with Kurds Was approving air strikes against the PKK America's worst error in the Middle East since the Iraq War?... READ MORE›
U.S. PLANS TO CAPTURE THE ISLAMIC STATES CAPITAL ALREADY GO AWRY
Members of a Syrian armed group hold positions in the frontline against the Islamic State group outside Ain Issa, in the countryside of Raqqa province... READ MORE›
U.S.-TRAINED FIGHTERS IN SYRIA GAVE EQUIPMENT TO AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE
American-trained Syrian fighters gave at least a quarter of their U.S.-provided equipment to al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria early this week, the U.S... READ MORE›
TURKEY 'LET ISIL CROSS BORDER TO ATTACK KOBANE'
Turkey 'let Isil cross border to attack Kobane' as it happened... READ MORE›
SYRIA REBELS AGREE TO LEAVE HOMS' BESIEGED AL-WAER
Syrian opposition fighters will be allowed to leave the last rebel-held neighbourhood in the city of Homs under a Russia-backed deal signed on Monday... READ MORE›
TURKEY CONFIRMS STRIKES AGAINST KURDISH MILITIAS IN SYRIA
To register its displeasure, Turkey recently summoned the ambassadors of Russia and the United States to raise concerns over support to the Syrian Kurds... READ MORE›
AIRSTRIKES IF YOU STAY, LAND MINES IF YOU FLEE
A Times reporter travels to Raqqa, the wounded heart of the Islamic State, and finds residents trapped by airstrikes, artillery fire and land mines... READ MORE›
EUROPE WANTED TO EXPORT EXTREMISTS TO SYRIA
Turkish officials Europe wanted to export extremists to Syria... READ MORE›
WITH FIGHT AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ STALLED, U.S. LOOKS TO SYRIA FOR GAINS
With fight against the islamic state in iraq stalled u.s. looks to syria for gains... READ MORE›
THEY FREED A SYRIAN TOWN FROM ISIS. NOW THEY HAVE TO GOVERN IT.
A cage in which Islamic State militants temporarily held people caught smoking while the militants held control of Tal Abyad, in Raqqa province... READ MORE›
DEADLY STRIKE ON IS OIL REFINERY
Captured refineries and oil fields have played a key role in fuelling Islamic State's advance across Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS FLEE SYRIA AS KURDS GAIN ON ISIS
But Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the observatory, said Islamic State fighters still controlled the road from the Turkish border to Raqqa... READ MORE›
GRISLY ISIS VIDEO SEEMS AIMED AT QUASHING RESISTANCE
Mosul Nineveh's provincial capital is the largest city controlled by the Islamic State also known as ISIS or ISIL... READ MORE›
ISIS ATTACKS AREAS HELD BY SYRIAN ARMY AND KURDISH MILITIA
In a separate offensive, rebel groups attacked Syrian government-held areas of Deraa city in the south, the observatory said... READ MORE›
AIR STRIKES: UK WARPLANES MAKE FIRST SORTIES OVER IRAQ - LIVE UPDATES
Syrian rebel sources complain that US-led bombing has barely dented the Islamic State's strongholds... READ MORE›
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S RULING AKP DECLARES VICTORY AFTER NEARLY ALL VOTES COUNTED
The West has supported Syrian Kurds fighting Isil but Turkey opposes this and recently shot at Kurdish forces in Tal Abyad, northern Syria... READ MORE›
HOW POWERFUL IS THE ISLAMIC STATE AND WHAT THREAT DOES IT REALLY POSE TO WEST?
Isis, a year of the caliphate How powerful is the Islamic State and what threat does it really pose to West?... READ MORE›
NEW FRONT IN SYRIA AS TURKS ROUT KURDS WITH PUTIN'S BLESSING
More pictures followed from Afrin, of Russian officers wearing YPG insignia on their uniforms, posing casually with Kurdish militiamen while waving the YPG's red-starred flag... READ MORE›
TRAPPED BY ISIL: JIHADISTS ORDER FLEEING SYRIANS BACK INTO CITY BESIEGED BY KURDS
Syrians mass at border with turkey in attempt to flee fighting over city of tal abyad an isil outpost surrounded by kurdish ypg fighters... READ MORE›
ISIL MAY HAVE LOST A BATTLE OR TWO, BUT THE WAR FOR CONTROL OF SYRIA IS NOT OVER
The Kurds have proven to be our most reliable and potent weapon in the fight against Isil... READ MORE›
HOW THE ISLAMIC STATE WAS HALTED IN KOBANI
BEIRUT, Lebanon The Islamic State's offensive against Kobani began quietly, almost unnoticed in the international press, in July of last year... READ MORE›
SYRIAN KURDS VICTORY OVER ISIL COULD STIR UP PROBLEMS
Kurdish fighters with the YPG took full control of Tal Abyad, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State group's ability to wage war in Syria... READ MORE›
KURDISH FIGHTERS CUT KEY SUPPLY LINE TO ISLAMIC STATE CAPITAL RAQQA
Khojer said Kurdish fighters backed by Syrian rebel groups had advanced on Tal Abyad in a two-front offensive from east and west... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE GROUP 'EXPELS' KURDISH RESIDENTS FROM RAQQA STRONGHOLD AS MILITIA ADVANCES
Kurdish forces and other syrian rebel groups are presenting the biggest challenge to the jihadists reign in syria... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND US WHILE PUSHING FOR PEACE TALKS JOCKEY FOR POSITION IN SYRIA
Ahmed said the Russians had offered his tribe, the Shweytat, weapons and assistance to take back their home area in Deir al-Zour from the Islamic State... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REFUGEES TRAPPED AT BORDER AS TURKISH SOLDIERS TURN THEM AWAY AND ISIS MILITANTS WATCH
Hundreds of Syrian refugees attempting to flee fighting in the town of Tal Abyad have been caught at the border crossing with Turkey... READ MORE›