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US-Led Airstrike Kills 8 in ISIS-Held Syrian Town
MURSITPINAR, Turkey—A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a gas distribution facility in a stronghold of the Islamic State group set off a series of secondary explosions and killed at least eight people in...
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Syria Airstrikes Kill More Than 500, Activists Claim
BEIRUT—U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 500 people since they began last month, mainly Islamic militants, activists said Thursday, as fighting flared yet again in the...
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Extremists Launch New Attack on Syrian Border Town
BEIRUT—Fighters from the Islamic State group launched Saturday a new offensive on the northern Syrian town of Kobani after shelling the area from their positions nearby, activists and a Kurdish...
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Syrian Activists Say Kobani Death Toll Passes 800
MURSITPINAR, Turkey—A Syrian activist group said Sunday that the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled...
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Peshmerga Troops Cheered by Fellow Kurds in Turkey
SURUC, Turkey—Iraqi peshmerga troops were cheered Wednesday by fellow Kurds in southeastern Turkey as the fighters slowly made their way toward the Syrian Kurdish border townof Kobani to try to break a...
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Small Iraqi Peshmerga Force Enters Syrian Town
SURUC, Turkey—A vanguard force of Iraqi peshmerga troops entered the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey on Thursday, part of a larger group of 150 fighters that the Kurds hope will turn...
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Kobani Front: Iraqi Peshmerga Fighters Prepare to Battle ISIS in Syria
MURSITPINAR, Turkey—Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived in a town that’s become a focal...
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