A secret deal reportedly allowed some of the most notorious ISIS fighters to escape from a besieged Syrian city with their weapons. CBS News partner BBC News says 250 fighters were permitted to leave Raqqa. They got out with 3,500 family members to ISIS-c ...[
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LLight up Damascus," the Saudi prince told Syrian rebels, as they grew increasingly reliant on foreign support.
The NSA document provides a glimpse into how the war had evolved from its early stages of popular uprisings and repression. By the time of the ...[
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After free passage negotiations with the U.S. and its Kurdish proxy forces, ISIS is moving its fighters out of Raqqa city. When the Syrian government reached similar agreements the U.S. childishly criticized it. The U.S. coalition claims that it was "not ...[
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a media-savvy man, and he has just pressed the button he knew would make headlines: Saudi women will be able to drive for the first time in the history of the kingdom. And the act begat the headlines and the headlines b ...[
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Charlie Hebdo published a characteristically vile cartoon depicting drowning victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston as being Nazis, with the banner that declared “God Exists”: because, needless to say, white people in Texas love Hitler and it’s thus ...[
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An international journalist was interrogated by Bulgarian authorities and fired from her job after publishing leaked documents exposing "Silk Way Airlines" as a weapons transport service for jihadists in Syria and which involved the CIA. ...[
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Saturday on Twitter, Assange highlighted an article from Thursday where the Financial Times noted how many Syrian rebels are getting salaries from the CIA. Assange said they "buried the lede": ...[
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The authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public.
The woman, a model called "Khulood", shared the clip of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir.
The footage s ...[
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What if Putin is Telling The Truth? On April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US coup d� ...[
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President Trump’s desire to fight Daesh and to put an end to international terrorism is going to be extremely difficult to implement. Indeed, it will cause damage to the states who organised it, and implies a reorientation of international politics. The ...[
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President Putin's speech to the Munich Security Conference ten years ago was "an invitation for discussion" that has been ignored by Germany and other Western countries to their detriment, former German ambassador Frank Elbe told Sputnik Deutschland. ...[
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