Syrian regime forces on Friday battled Islamic State group near Aleppo city as they clashed with a local Al-Qaeda affiliate and allied rebels nearby, a monitoring group said.
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Over 100 troops, pro-regime militia, jihadists and rebels have been killed in four days of fierce fighting on a strategic front of Syria's Aleppo province, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
Turkey's armed forces on Wednesday launched new artillery strikes on jihadist positions in Syria, after three days of deadly fire on a Turkish border town that has left residents on edge.
Three people arrested in Brussels in connection with the November Paris attacks have been released without charge, Belgian prosecutors said.
A Syrian journalist who was shot in the head by Islamic State group jihadists in southern Turkey died in hospital on Tuesday, activists said.
Young Arab people see the rise of the Islamic State group as "the single biggest challenge" in the region, a survey published Tuesday said, with respondents prioritising stability over democracy.
The United States on Monday updated its warning for American citizens planning to travel to Saudi Arabia, less than two weeks before President Barack Obama is due there.
The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and one in Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
The Russian air force and Syrian military are preparing a joint operation to take Aleppo from rebels, the Syrian prime minister was quoted saying on Sunday, and an opposition official said a ceasefire was on the verge of collapse.
At least 24 Islamic State group fighters and eight civilians were killed in air strikes Sunday on Syria's Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS, a monitor said.
The Brussels-based Islamic State jihadists behind the Paris attacks planned a fresh strike in France but targeted the Belgian capital instead as police closed in, the federal prosecutor said.
