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Assad vows to fight on, win back all Syria ASIA

Assad vows to fight on, win back all Syria

President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Tuesday to fight on in what he called Syria's war against terrorism, showing no sign of compromise in his first major address since peace talks broke down in April.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Muslims mark start of Ramadan, many under cloud of war ASIA

Muslims mark start of Ramadan, many under cloud of war

More than a billion Muslims observed the start of Ramadan on Monday but in the besieged cities of Syria and Iraq residents struggled to mark the holy month.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US-backed force says Islamic State fleeing Syrian city ASIA

US-backed force says Islamic State fleeing Syrian city

Islamic State fighters have been fleeing the Syrian city of Manbij with their families as US-backed groups advance to within 6 km (4 miles) in an attack that has killed more than 150 jihadists, a spokesman for the US-backed forces said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syria, Russia jets step up bombing of Aleppo ASIA

Syria, Russia jets step up bombing of Aleppo

Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday in some of the heaviest recent raids

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US jet strikes target Islamic State from Mediterranean ASIA

US jet strikes target Islamic State from Mediterranean

US fighter jets on Friday launched strikes against Islamic State from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said, marking the first time a US aircraft carrier targeted areas in the Middle East from the Mediterranean since the Iraq War began in 2003.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UN to ask Syria to approve air drops of aid ASIA

UN to ask Syria to approve air drops of aid

The United Nations will ask the Syrian government on Sunday to approve air drops and air lifts of humanitarian aid to besieged areas, UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council, according to diplomats in the closed door meeting on Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
New photo of missing Japanese journalist emerges INTERNATIONAL

New photo of missing Japanese journalist emerges

Japan said on Monday that it believed a new photo posted online of a Japanese journalist missing in Syria - showing him for the first time since a video released earlier this year - is authentic.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Erdogan condemns US support of Kurdish militias in Syria ASIA

Erdogan condemns US support of Kurdish militias in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the United States' support of Kurdish fighters in Syria after AFP pictures revealed US commandos wearing the insignia of a militia branded a terror group by Ankara.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Assad denies reports of new Russian-drafted constitution ASIA

Assad denies reports of new Russian-drafted constitution

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied media reports that Russia had drawn up a new constitution for his country and presented it to his government as part of international efforts to end the long conflict.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Islamic State drives Syria rebels from near Turkish border ASIA

Islamic State drives Syria rebels from near Turkish border

Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS hit by 150 US-led air strikes near Syria's Raqa ASIA

IS hit by 150 US-led air strikes near Syria's Raqa

A US-led coalition has carried out at least 150 air strikes on the Islamic State group to back an offensive near the jihadists' northern Syria stronghold, a monitor said Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS blasts in Syria regime heartland kill over 148 ASIA

IS blasts in Syria regime heartland kill over 148

More than 148 people were killed yesterday in bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria...

4:45 AM November 25 2016