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Battle for Aleppo intensifies after ceasefire ends
The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground…
Burning sulfur near Mosul sends hundreds to hospital, U.S. troops don masks
Up to 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a sulfur plant set ablaze…
Iraqi army drives Islamic State from Christian region near Mosul
Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since…
Sanaa air raids resume as Yemen truce expires
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce…
Iraq parliament bans alcohol in a ‘surprise’ move
Parliament in Iraq has voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, with backers of the move arguing…
heavy clashes put end to Aleppo ceasefire
Heavy clashes have been reported in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo after a three-day ceasefire ended on…
Turkey demands role in Mosul battle
Turkey has insisted that its forces cannot remain idle during the fight to drive so-called Islamic State…
Yemen ceasefire takes effect after day of violence
A U.N.-mediated truce to the war in Yemen went into effect a minute before midnight on Wednesday, hours after…
Hollande pledges to push ceasefire extension at Syria talks with Putin, Merkel
French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday he would do everything possible to try to extend a ceasefire…
Iran supplies more weapons to Yemen’s Houthis via Oman
Iran has stepped up weapons transfers to the Houthis, the militia fighting the Saudi-backed government in Yemen,…