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Syria air raids hit near Turkish military post
ADEN: Fighting shook Aden again on Wednesday when government forces attacked the Yemeni city's eastern suburbs and fought artillery duels with southern separatists, residents said.Government forces have recaptured most of the neighbouring towns they
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Yemen government forces enter Aden after seizure by separatists
BAGHDAD: Hundreds of displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, were transferred from a northern camp to their home areas Wednesday despite humanitarian concerns over what awaits them on their return.The civilians originally hailed from
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Yemen government forces ‘impose full control over Aden’: minister
Forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognised government have reclaimed control of the port city of Aden, a minister said, three weeks after the interim capital was seized by United Arab Emirates-backed separatists. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani
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Johnson plan to suspend UK parliament sparks anger
Social media users are urging Britain's workers to undertake a general strike in a desperate bid to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from suspending the UK parliament. #StopTheCoup was one of the United Kingdom's
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Syrian Kurdish YPG has withdrawn from some border positions — Kurdish authority
BEIRUT: Syrian insurgents launched counterattacks Tuesday in and near areas recently taken by government forces in the country’s last remaining rebel region, after a series of setbacks they suffered in recent weeks, opposition activists
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Syrian activists: Insurgents strike back in rebel stronghold
Syrian Kurdish YPG has withdrawn from some border positions — Kurdish authority BEIRUT: The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has pulled forces and heavy weapons from some positions at the border with Turkey, showing its
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Syrian Kurdish fighters ‘start pulling back’ from Turkish border
Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria say their forces have started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after the United States and Turkey reached a deal to establish a "safe zone" there earlier this month.
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UN committee faults Nepal in child labour and torture case
A United Nations committee has ordered Nepal to compensate a man who suffered years of forced labour and torture in custody as a child. The ruling on Tuesday came in response to a complaint from
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Iraq begins probe into deadly drone attack near border
ANKARA: Turkish ground troops will enter a planned safe zone in northern Syria “very soon,” President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after a joint operation center with the United States opened at the weekend.Turkey
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Erdogan says Turkish troops will enter planned Syria safe zone “soon”
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s military said Monday it has launched an investigation into a purported Israeli strike that killed one paramilitary fighter and severely wounded another near the country’s western border with Syria.The attack on Sunday


