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BEIRUT —  Jordanian troops killed 27 suspected armed drug smugglers and wounded a number of others attempting to enter the country from Syria at dawn Thursday, the Jordanian military said — the deadliest encounter so far in a rising wave of confrontations on Jordan’s northern border. The deaths come almost two…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Jordanian military said Thursday that troops have killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter the country from neighboring Syria. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Jordanian military said Thursday that troops have killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter the country from neighboring Syria. The report…

A Kurdish-led, US-backed force has retaken a prison occupied by Islamic State militants in northeast Syria. Video / AP US-backed Kurdish-led forces said they wrestled control of the last section of a prison seized by Islamic State militants and freed a number of child detainees they had used as human…

Published 21 January 2022 Kurdish forces battled jihadists in northeastern Syria’s largest city Friday following a prison attack that claimed hefty death tolls on both sides and set Islamic State fighters free. The prison break from the Syrian detention facility holding the largest number of IS suspects was one of…

— AFP/FileBAGHDAD: Eleven soldiers were killed in an overnight attack by the Daesh against a base in eastern Iraq, authorities said Friday, in the group's deadliest operation in the country this year. The extremist group took over large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, declaring itself a new…

/ Middle East Issued on: 28/12/2021 - 04:34 File photo: Smoke rises from a fire in a container storage area, after Syrian state media reported an Israeli air strike on the Syrian port of Latakia, Syria, in this handout picture released by SANA on December 7, 2021. © SANA via…

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria said Monday that Israel’s plans to double the number of settlers living in Israeli-annexed Golan Heights are “dangerous and unprecedented” and only perpetuate its occupation of the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday a multimillion-dollar plan meant to double the number of settlers…

PARIS, France — A French-Syrian man has been detained by French police on suspicion of supplying components for the manufacture of chemical weapons in Syria through his shipping company, sources briefed on the case told AFP Sunday. The man, who was born in 1962 and lives abroad, was arrested Saturday…

NAJAF:  The winner of Iraq’s October parliamentary election, Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, met on Wednesday with rivals from the pro-Iran Hashd Al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance ahead of the opening of parliament. The Oct. 10 vote was rejected by the Fatah Alliance, the political arm of the pro-Tehran Hashd, but Iraq’s…