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Islamic State on the defensive, territory shrinking in Syria and Iraq: U.S. official
AMMAN Islamic State has not gained significant ground since it took the Iraqi city of Ramadi a year ago, which it then lost in December, as the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria has been helped by better intelligence and better equipped local forces, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
Kerry meets Saudi king to discuss Syria before Vienna talks
JEDDAH U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the fragile truce in Syria, before broader talks with Russia, Iran and other countries in Vienna on Tuesday.
Australia charges five men over plot to sail to join Islamic State
SYDNEY Australian police have charged five men suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join Islamic State via a journey that would start in a small motor boat taking them to Indonesia and the Philippines. | Video
Syrian forces retake Deir al-Zor hospital after 'major' Islamic State offensive
BEIRUT Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after Islamic State attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged eastern Syrian city, a war monitor and state media said.
Hezbollah blames rebel shelling for death of top commander in Syria
BEIRUT Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one member of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement had said. | Video
For Iran and Hezbollah, a costly week in Syria
BEIRUT A rebel onslaught on the town of Khan Touman near Aleppo last week delivered one of the biggest battlefield setbacks yet to the coalition of foreign Shi'ite fighters waging war on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
Insurgents seize Syrian Alawite village, killing 19: Observatory
BEIRUT A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said insurgents killed at least 19 civilians after capturing an Alawite village from government control in western Syria on Thursday, but insurgents denied targeting civilians.
Special Report: How Russia allowed homegrown radicals to go and fight in Syria
NOVOSASITLI, Russia Four years ago, Saadu Sharapudinov was a wanted man in Russia. A member of an outlawed Islamist group, he was hiding in the forests of the North Caucasus, dodging patrols by paramilitary police and plotting a holy war against Moscow.
New wave of migrants to Italy were not mainly Syrians: officials
ROME Hundreds of migrants were brought to Italy on Friday having been rescued from the sea over the past day, however the majority were not Syrian, as previously reported, but came from a variety of countries, officials said.
Fighting erupts north of Aleppo as ceasefire expires
BEIRUT Syrian government forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and rebel sources said. | Video
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Australia charges five in Syria 'plot'
Australia charges five men over an alleged plot to sail to Syria to join Islamic State. Paul Chapman reports.