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  Reunited post-Aleppo battle, Syria medics mete out 'hope'

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 10:52am on August 13, 2018

  Her scarred hands wrapped in gloves, Malakeh Harbaliyya lifted an infant out of an incubator at a hospital in Syria's rural north, holding him gently...

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  Are we about to witness the last battle of the Syrian war?

  Robert Fisk | Updated at 12:05am on July 31, 2018

  WILL it be the last battle? For three years, Idlib has been the dumping ground for all of Syria’s retreating Islamist militias, the final redoubt...

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  IS attacks kill 180 in Syria

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 12:00am on July 26, 2018

  A string of suicide blasts and raids claimed by the Islamic State group killed more than 180 people in southern Syria on Wednesday, in one...

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  Dozens dead in attacks on Syria's Sweida city, villages

  Reuters | Updated at 02:19pm on July 25, 2018

  Multiple attacks killed at least 38 people and wounded 37 others in Sweida and villages northeast of the Syrian city, the head of the health...

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  Air strike kills 28 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor: monitor

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 01:21pm on July 13, 2018

  An air strike has killed 28 civilians in one of the last holdouts of the Islamic State group in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor,...

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  Lafarge charged with complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria

  Reuters | Updated at 06:25pm on June 28, 2018

  French cement giant Lafarge was charged Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing a terrorist group for paying millions to...

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  Record 68.5m people displaced worldwide: UN

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 01:33pm on June 19, 2018

  A record 68.5 million people have been forced flee their homes due to war, violence and persecution, notably in places like Myanmar and Syria, the...

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  920,000 displaced in Syria in 2018: UN

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:05am on June 12, 2018

  More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018, the highest level in the seven-year conflict, the United Nations...

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  Iran in a tight corner 

  Imran Khalid | Updated at 12:05am on June 12, 2018

  THE last one month has been very rough for Iran. It is suddenly finding itself in a very tight corner....

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  UN chief calls for investigation of Syria strikes

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:33pm on June 11, 2018

  UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for an investigation of air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian jets in...