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Missing Japanese journalist video emerges INTERNATIONAL

Missing Japanese journalist video emerges

Footage has emerged of a Japanese journalist who went missing in Syria apparently asking for Tokyo's help in securing his release.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Two-thirds of Christians have left Syria: Aleppo bishop ASIA

Two-thirds of Christians have left Syria: Aleppo bishop

Two-thirds of Syria's Christians have left the country, an Aleppo bishop said Wednesday, blaming violence and insecurity spread by extremist groups and insisting most Christians still support the Syrian president.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria ASIA

Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, Kurdish officials said on Wednesday, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syria's civil war.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
More Russian warplanes leave Syria as Kerry plans Moscow visit INTERNATIONAL

More Russian warplanes leave Syria as Kerry plans Moscow visit

A second group of Russian warplanes flew out of Syria Wednesday in line with Moscow's decision to withdraw most of its forces, as US Secretary of State John Kerry prepared a rare trip to Moscow ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Russia begins withdrawal of military equipment from Syria ASIA

Russia begins withdrawal of military equipment from Syria

Russia has begun to withdraw military equipment from Syria, the defence ministry said Tuesday, after Moscow announced it will pull the bulk of its forces from the war-torn country.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Assad's fate is key as Syria talks open in Geneva ASIA

Assad's fate is key as Syria talks open in Geneva

Talks to end Syria's civil war opened in Geneva on Monday, but hopes for a breakthrough remained remote with the sides locked in a bitter dispute over the future of President Bashar al-Assad.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS commander Shishani 'clinically dead' ASIA

IS commander Shishani 'clinically dead'

Top Islamic State group commander Omar al-Shishani has been "clinically dead" for several days after a US air strike in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Rocket fire from Syria hits south Turkey ASIA

Rocket fire from Syria hits south Turkey

At least three rockets fired from Syria hit the Turkish border town of Kilis on Saturday but no-one was injured, the local governor's office said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syria rebels say they shot down warplane ASIA

Syria rebels say they shot down warplane

Syrian rebels and a group monitoring the conflict said insurgents had shot down a warplane over western Syria on Saturday, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syria opposition to go to peace talks, says Assad escalating war ARABIA

Syria opposition to go to peace talks, says Assad escalating war

Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of preparing to escalate the war.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Five civilians killed in regime raids on Syria's Aleppo ASIA

Five civilians killed in regime raids on Syria's Aleppo

Syrian regime air strikes killed at least five civilians in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said calling it a "serious violation".

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Lavrov urges UN envoy to include Kurds in Syria talks ASIA

Lavrov urges UN envoy to include Kurds in Syria talks

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the UN's special envoy on Syria to include Kurds in upcoming talks that aim to resolve the five-year Syrian civil war.

4:45 AM November 25 2016