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Mar- 2023 -8 MarchMiddle East
Four Dead in Syria Drone Strike: Monitor
A drone strike killed four people in government-held eastern Syria in an area controlled by Iran-backed factions, a war monitor said.
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Jan- 2020 -13 JanuaryCommentary
What the ‘Vengeance for the Two Sheikhs’ campaign says about new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi
The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not appear to have reduced ISIS’s capabilities, and new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi seems to be carrying on his legacy
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Oct- 2019 -28 OctoberMiddle East
US to keep Deir Ezzor oilfields out of Syrian government hands, Esper says
US deployment to Syria's oilfields is aimed in part at denying them to Russia and the Syrian government, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said
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25 OctoberMiddle East
US to send ‘additional military assets’ to Syria’s oil region amid troop withdrawal
The US said it planned to increase up its presence in eastern Syria in order to protect oil fields from being retaken by ISIS
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Mar- 2019 -29 MarchMiddle East
ISIS’s ‘caliphate’ was crushed. Now Syria’s Kurd-led alliance faces bigger battles
Reporting from Syria in the dying days of the ISIS caliphate, Jared Szuba talks to Kurds and Arabs about the fight for their shared future
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25 MarchCommentary
Challenges after the elimination of ISIS
Although defeated on the battlefield, ISIS will continue to be a threat to stability in northern Syria, SDF commander Mazlum Kobane writes
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22 MarchMiddle East
Last days of the caliphate: Mutlu Civiroglu on Islamic State’s final stand in Syria
Mutlu Civiroglu detailed his experience with the SDF in the last days of ISIS's self-declared caliphate in Syria
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21 MarchMiddle East
SDF searching Baghuz for hidden ISIS fighters as fall of ‘caliphate’ nears
The SDF combed the banks of the Euphrates in Syria for the last ISIS fighters, preventing the announcement of the demise of the "caliphate"
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11 MarchMiddle East
SDF resumes offensive on final ISIS territory in eastern Syria
The SDF pounded the last scrap of land held by ISIS, a scattering of tents and destroyed buildings near the Syrian town of Baghuz
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5 MarchMiddle East
SDF prepares to resume civilian evacuations from last ISIS redoubt in Syria
The SDF prepared to evacuate more civilians from Baghuz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria, after evacuating almost 3,000 people including hundreds of fighters over the past 48 hours
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