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A U.S. official confirmed to NPR that pro-regime forces took control of two villages near Syria's border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control.
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A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons plans to begin investigating the attack in Douma by Saturday. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called the attack "inexcusable."
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The Trump administration says it won't release a secret memorandum that explains why it has the legal authority to attack Syria without permission from Congress.
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President Trump had a ready retort to a Russian threat to shoot down any U.S. missiles in Syria: "Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'"
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Russia and Syria say Israeli F-15s hit an air base in central Syria, killing 14, after a reported gas attack by the Assad regime. Israel won't comment. President Trump says he'll decide on Syria soon.
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The rebel-held enclave outside Damascus, one of the few left in Syria, has been bombarded by pro-regime forces recently — and UNICEF and other aid groups have struggled to describe the carnage.
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Syria is in its sixth year of civil war, and hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed in the conflict.This hour, we talk about the medical crisis…
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The U.S. military and its allies have largely defeated the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria. Now comes the tricky part: finding political solutions in both of those troubled countries.
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"So far, I have no 100 percent confirmation of this information," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, after defense officials said they believe a strike might have killed the ISIS leader.
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Raqqa is the most important stronghold for the militant group in Syria and fell under its control in 2014. This offensive is expected to be difficult and is seen as pivotal in the fight against ISIS.