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Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.

Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’

August 24, 2017Conflict

ISIS militants are being squeezed out of their final strongholds in eastern Syria.

Turkey

ISIS claims responsibility for the deadly attack inside a Turkish nightclub on New Year’s night

January 2, 2017Conflict
Subhi Nahas is a gay refugee from the Syrian city of Idlib.

Subhi Nahas never felt safe as a gay man in Syria — and then ISIS took over his hometown

August 25, 2015Conflict
A Syrian girl covers herself with a blanket at a refugee settlement in Bar Elias in Lebanon.

Sorry, we’re full — Lebanon ends its open border policy for Syrian refugees

January 6, 2015Conflict

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