Iraq Daily, August 31: US Renews Airstrikes on Islamic State Near Besieged Town of Amerli & Close to Mosul Dam
UPDATE 1615 GMT: Iraqi troops, Kurdish peshmerga, and Shia militias have now broken the siege of...
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Author: Scott Lucas
Syria Daily, August 31: More than Half of All Syrians Have Been Killed or Fled Homes in Conflict
LATEST: Insurgents Continue Assault on Last Regime Bases in Idlib Province; Regime Counters With...
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Syria Analysis: Obama Hesitates — Again — on Intervention
After days of consideration by the White House of intervention in the Syrian conflict, President...
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Iraq Feature: Fallujah — Insurgent-Occupied City is “Out of a Picture at End of World War II”
Almost lost in the news of the Islamic State’s advance in northern Iraq since June, Fallujah...
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Iran Daily, August 30: New US Sanctions — A Sign That Nuclear Talks Are in Trouble?
LATEST: Head of Revolutionary Guards “We Will Liberate Palestine” UPDATE 0945 GMT:...
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Syria Daily, August 30: A Bad Week Gets Worse for Assad
LATEST: Philippines Defense Minister — UN Peacekeepers in Fight With “Militants”...
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