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Syria: Alawites flee to Latakia ahead of rebel advance

Syrian rebels travel to join comrades fighting regime forces for the control of the highway that connects Idlib with Latakia on July 11, 2013. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images)Beirut, Asharq...

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Fading into Obscurity

Separate car bombs against displaced members of the Shabak community and industrial workers left 12 people dead in Bartala, Nineveh province on January 16, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Living on the...

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The Battle for a Syrian Caliphate

Residents of Syria’s eastern town of Deir Ezzor walk past the debris of a building reportedly hit by a missile on September 26, 2013. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that units of the...

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Syria: Islamic Front denies meeting US ambassador

US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford testifies about the ongoing war in Syria before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill March 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)...

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Iraq’s Insurgency Reinvigorated

A wave of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed 91 people in the deadliest day in more than two years on July 23, 2012 after Al-Qaeda warned it would mount new attacks. (Ahmad...

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Syria: Western-backed Coalition accuse ISIS of serving Assad’s interests

A member of the Islamist Syrian opposition group Ahrar Al-Sham fires against a position of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units during clashes in the northern Syrian governorate of Raqqa in August...

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Iraq: Tribes, ISIS face off in Anbar

Tribesmen surround a burning vehicle during clashes in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on December 30, 2013. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The Iraqi Army continued the shelling of Islamic...

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Homemade Bombs

Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images) Two bombs have rocked Lebanon in the space of a...

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Iraq: Maliki urges Fallujah tribes to expel ISIS

Tribesmen block a road during the clashes with Iraqi security forces on January 5, 2014 in Anbar, Iraq. (Suleyman El-Kubeysi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Prime Minister...

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On His Own in Anbar

Iraqi soldiers stand along a road close to their vehicle in the area of Ein Tamer, which leads west out of the central Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim shrine city of Karbala towards the mainly Sunni Muslim city...

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Fetteh in ISIS Country

A rebel fighter walks in a street of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 10, 2014. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)The last thing I expected on my latest trip to Syria at the very beginning...

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Moving Mountains in Syria

‘The miraculous minaret’ no longer. (Tam Hussein) A year ago the villages of Jebel Akrad were home to living, breathing communities. Tucked into the mountain range in Syria’s northwestern corner, the...

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ISIS forcing Raqqa women to wed its fighters, say activists

A rebel fighter carries homemade mortar rounds on September 3, 2013 in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. (Mezar Matar/AFP/Getty Images) Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fear of reprisals from members of the...

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Syria: Assad recruiting East European mercenaries via Hezbollah

100 regime soldiers reported to be dead as a result of the operation carried out by Islamic Front brigades in Aleppo, February 14, 2014, Syria. (Salih Mahmud Leyla/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Beirut,...

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Iraq: Anbar Council calls for Fallujah truce extension

Clashes between Iraqi army and armed tribesmen in Fallujah, in the western province of Anbar, Iraq, on February 11, 2014. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Anbar...

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Iraq closes Abu Ghraib prison amid security fears

US soldiers stands guard at Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 19, 2006. (Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images). Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq announced on Tuesday that it has closed the infamous...

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Rebel Surgery

Opposition fighters help one of their wounded comrades during clashes with government forces in the Sheikh Najjar district on the outskirts of Aleppo on March 3, 2014. (Zein Al-Rifai/AFP/Getty...

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ISIS seeks to link its Syrian and Iraqi territory

Helicopters at the Minnigh military airport in Azaz region are reported to be destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, March 2, 2014. (Saleh Mahmoud Laila/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Beirut,...

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Jarba: The West has promised us weapons within weeks

President of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Al-Jarba, attends a press conference with French President Francois Hollande on May 20, 2014 in Paris, France. (Chesnot/Getty Images) Paris, Asharq...

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Syria’s Doctors in Crisis

A view of Al-Kindi hospital on December 21, 2013. (Saleh Leila/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) It was February 18, 2012, when Mohamad Osama Al-Baroudi disappeared. Dragged out of his Damascus clinic by...

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