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After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home
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After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home

AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — They came from around the world, four women drawn to the Islamic State group’s “caliphate.” They…
IS ‘caliphate’ totally eliminated: Syria force
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IS ‘caliphate’ totally eliminated: Syria force

Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” Saturday after flushing out diehard jihadists from…
Uncertainty as Mideast turns a page with IS defeat in Raqqa
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Uncertainty as Mideast turns a page with IS defeat in Raqqa

The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group in its self-declared capital…
Battle for Syria’s Al-Bab intensifies: Syrian Observatory
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Battle for Syria’s Al-Bab intensifies: Syrian Observatory

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported fierce clashes at the southwestern edges of Al-Bab, with some…
Kurdish forces launch major offensive to retake Iraq’s Sinjar from IS group
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Kurdish forces launch major offensive to retake Iraq’s Sinjar from IS group

Kurdish forces launched an offensive Thursday to retake the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran…
Kurdish forces free 7 villages in Iraq
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Kurdish forces free 7 villages in Iraq

Western-backed Kurdish fighters freed seven villages from the clasps of the Islamic State group in northern Iraq in recent days,…
Monitor: Kurds, Syrian army battle Islamic State in Syria’s Hasaka
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Monitor: Kurds, Syrian army battle Islamic State in Syria’s Hasaka

Kurdish forces and the Syrian army fought separate battles with Islamic State around Hasaka city in northeast Syria overnight as…
Syrian army regains ground against Islamic State in Hasaka city
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Syrian army regains ground against Islamic State in Hasaka city

The Syrian army said on Sunday it had repulsed a major offensive by Islamic State militants in the northeastern city…
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