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Russia to use Middle East volunteer fighters against Ukraine: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light on Friday for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East to be deployed alongside Russian-backed...

Disease fighters to mark partial victory in polio eradication battle

Global health officials will on Thursday announce a partial victory in the decades-long fight to end polio, with a second of three strains of the crippling virus certified as eradicated worldwide

26 Syria govt troops, 9 Russia fighters killed in IS attack: monitor

DAMASCUS: At least 26 Syrian regime forces and nine Russian fighters were killed in an Islamic State group attack earlier this week in Syria's...

India says it has confirmed 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 are dead

NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday that 39 Indians, who were believed to have been kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq in 2014,...

US-backed fighters enter IS-held airport in Syria: spokesman

DAMASCUS: Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Sunday entered a military airport held by the Islamic State militant group...

Turkey-backed rebels kill 68 Islamic State fighters near Syria’s al-Bab: military

AL-BAB: Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 Islamic State militants in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense...

Islamic State drone kills Kurdish fighters, hurts French troops

WASHINGTON: A remote-controlled jihadist hobby plane rigged with hidden explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and injured two French special operations troops near Mosul, French...

At least 70 killed in north of Syria’s Aleppo: monitor

BEIRUT: At least 70 regime and rebel fighters have been killed in 24 hours in a government assault and a jihadist-led counterattack in northern Syria, a monitor said Thursday.

Rebels seize Syria town from fighters loyal to Islamic State: rebels, monitor

DAMASCUS: Rebels seized a town in southern Syria from groups loyal to Islamic State just a day after fighters captured another town from the hardline militants in a separate insurgent assault in the north, a rebel source and a monitoring group said.

ISIS forced to cut fighters’ pay 50 percent because of airstrikes, says Glaser

LONDON: The Islamic State (IS) militant group has been forced to cut pay to its fighters by up to 50 percent because U.S.-led air strikes have had a substantial impact on the money it makes from oil, a senior U.S official said on Monday.

Scientists urge world to stop killer robots

DAVOS: The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps.

Islamic State abducts over 400 in east Syria after deadly assault

BEIRUT: Militants from the Islamic State group have abducted more than 400 Syrian civilians after capturing new ground in a major assault on the city of Deir Ezzor that left dozens dead.

Blasts in Syria’s Homs kill 32, wound 90 – monitoring group

HOMS: At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Christian female fighters take on IS in Syria

HASAKEH, SYRIA: Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Thirty Yemeni fighters killed by friendly fire from Saudi-led strikes

SANAA: Saudi-led coalition jets targeting Houthi militiamen in Yemen killed 30 fighters loyal to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi when they mistakenly bombed a military camp in the province of Taiz on Saturday, local officials said.

More than 40 Islamic State fighters die after consuming poisonous Iftar

MOSUL, IRAQ: More than 40 Islamic State fighters died after consuming Iftar in Iraq's city of Mosul.

Syria mosque blast kills 25 Al-Nusra fighters: monitor

BEIRUT, LEBANON: An explosion in a mosque in northern Syria killed 25 members of Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, including one of its leaders, as they attended Ramadan prayers, a monitoring group said Friday.

Syrian rebels execute 18 Islamic State fighters

BEIRUT, LEBANON: A Syrian rebel group operating around Damascus has executed 18 alleged members of the Islamic State group in a video mimicking the extremist organisation's own productions.

Obama warns Iran fighters in Iraq must respect its sovereignty

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that its fighters must respect Iraq's sovereignty and report to Baghdad in the region-wide battle against Islamic State militants.

Yemeni Houthi fighters in tanks reach central Aden

ADEN: Houthi fighters and their army allies advanced in a column of tanks on Wednesday into a central district of the southern city of Aden, the main foothold of loyalists of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, witnesses said.

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