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  22 members of a single family killed in Syria chemical attack

  World | April 07, 2017 9:36 IST

  The chemical attack in Idlib province of Syria on Tuesday claimed lives of 22 members of a single family including 9-month-old twins, Aya and Ahmed.

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  27 children killed in Syria chemical attack, says UNICEF

  World | April 07, 2017 9:26 IST

  The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that at least 27 children were killed in the chemical attack in Idlib province of Syria on Tuesday.

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  Chemical used in Syria attack could be Sarin, claims Turkey

  World | April 07, 2017 9:16 IST

  Turkey on Thursday claimed that the chemical agent allegedly used in a recent attack in Syria could have been ‘Sarin’, a nerve agent that causes organophosphate poisoning.

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  US launches missile strikes on Syria after chemical weapons attack

  World | April 07, 2017 11:06 IST

  Earlier this week, the Syrian government aircraft killed more than 80 civilians by using chlorine mixed with a nerve agent, possibly sarin, in rebel-held northern Idlib.

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  Donald Trump hints at military action to retaliate against Assad after chemical attack

  World | April 07, 2017 7:04 IST

  Trump said that what happened in Syria is a disgrace to humanity and so ‘something should happen’.

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  Gas bombs dropped on Syria victims when they were sleeping: Report

  World | April 06, 2017 9:08 IST

  Survivors of the deadly chemical attack in Syria have reportedly claimed that they were gassed when they were sleeping.

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  Will take own action if UN fails in its duty in Syria, says US

  World | April 06, 2017 7:23 IST

  The United States on Wednesday hinted that it will take its own action in Syria unless the UN Security Council moves to prevent the use of chemical weapons in the war-torn country.

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  Syria chemical attack: Russia defends ally Assad as death toll reaches 72

  World | April 05, 2017 19:14 IST

  The death toll in the suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday even as Russia defended Damascus in face of an international outcry.

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  Suspected gas attack kills at least 58 in Syria's Idlib: Monitoring group

  World | April 05, 2017 18:30 IST

  Warplanes carried out a suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's northern Idlib province, killing at least 58 people on Tuesday.

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  Trump's ISIS plan looks much like Obama's: Officials

  World | March 18, 2017 11:04 IST

  The Pentagon has given US President Donald Trump a ‘secret’ plan to defeat the terror group ISIS. According to senior officials who reviewed the document, the plan was little more than an ‘intensification’ of what the Obama administration had.

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  25 killed in suicide in suicide bombing at Damascus Justice Palace

  World | March 15, 2017 18:42 IST

  At least 25 persons were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-strapped vest in the old Justice Palace building in Damascus on Wednesday, the state news agency reported.

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  Twin blasts hit near religious sites in Damascus; kill at least 40, say reports

  World | March 11, 2017 22:44 IST

  Arab media are reporting at least 40 people are dead after twin blasts in a Damascus neighborhood that is home to tombs of religious figures frequented by Shiite pilgrims. There were conflicting reports on what

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  Top commander signals larger, longer US presence in Syria

  World | March 10, 2017 8:16 IST

  Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, said that he will need more conventional forces to insure stability once the fight to defeat ISIS in their self-declared capital of Raqqa is over.

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  US Marines arrive in Syria to join local forces fighting ISIS militants

  World | March 09, 2017 10:48 IST

  The US-backed fighters are preparing to move in the coming weeks to assault the city of Raqqa, IS' self-declared capital, the officials told CNN on Wednesday

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  Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra as Islamic State defenses crumble

  World | March 03, 2017 6:41 IST

  Syria's military on Thursday announced that it has fully recaptured the historic town of Palmyra from the Islamic State militants.

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  Al Qaeda No. 2 killed in US drone strike in Syria: Report

  World | February 28, 2017 0:04 IST

  Al Qaeda's alleged deputy leader Abu Khayr al-Masri was killed in a drone strike in northwest Syria, US-based terrorism-tracking website SITE Intelligence said.

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  Islamic State group's 'business model' near collapse: Report

  World | February 18, 2017 9:11 IST

  The Islamic State group is haemorrhaging money with every piece of territory it loses, according to a new analysis that found that the group's "business model" is on the path to failure.

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  Top Al-Qaeda leader killed in Syria air strike: US

  World | February 10, 2017 7:37 IST

  A US air raid in northern Syria has killed a top Al-Qaeda member who had close ties with the terror network's late leader Osama bin Laden, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

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  At least 13,000 ordinary civilians hanged in Syrian prison since 2011: Report

  World | February 07, 2017 7:38 IST

  Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as ‘the slaughterhouse’, a report said. Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 peopl

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  Kashmir cannot become Afghanistan or Syira: Mehbooba Mufti

  Politics | January 31, 2017 6:14 IST

  Mehbooba Mufti today stressed the need to create an environment of peace and normalcy in the state and defeat those trying to create wedge between different communities.