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American Woman Faces Criminal Charges For Training With ISIS

American woman Halima Salman faces criminal charges for training with ISIS in Syria. US working to repatriate citizens from former ISIS territory.

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France repatriates 47 nationals from northeastern Syria camps

The repatriation involved 32 children and 15 women who will undergo medical and social monitoring, French officials say.

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Tornadoes kill at least 6 in Alabama as severe storms pummel the Southeast

The severe weather led to several deaths in Autauga County.

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‘Idlib Security’ Thwarts ‘Terrorist’ Plot by Syrian Regime

Security forces in Syria’s opposition-held northwestern Idlib province announced that they thwarted "terrorist operations and plans" of a "terrorist cell linked to the Syrian regime and Russia." Suspects involved in the plot were arrested on Saturday. Spokesperson for the General Security Service in Idlib Diaa al-Omar said the eight-member cell…

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Spain to bring back Spanish families from IS camps in Syria

Spain has decided to bring back several Spanish wives, widows and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps in northeastern Syria, a government source said on Monday, confirming a report in El Pais newspaper.

Reuters

Saudi-Funded Health Center Opens at Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan

Saudi Ambassador to Jordan Naif bin Bandar Al-Sudairy and Commissioner-General of the United Nation Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini co-opened a Saudi Development Fund-financed health center designed to serve some Jordan-based 300,000 Palestinians in the Al-Zarqa refugee camp. In a speech…

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Türkiye Replaces Forces in Idlib’s De-escalation Zone

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Turkish forces have replaced a large number of their troops stationed in the de-escalation zone in Idlib. Meanwhile, the regime forces continue to escalate measures on the Jabal Al-Zawiya area in the southern part of Idlib province. According to SOHR…

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Children living in 'open air prison' at Syria's Al-Hol camp: MSF

Beirut (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday deplored the fate of thousands of children living in "a giant open air prison" at Syria's notorious Al-Hol camp.

AFP

Türkiye Redeploys its Troops to Confront Syrian Regime in Idlib

Turkish forces in northern Syria are redeploying in the Idlib and Aleppo countryside to counter any advances by the regime forces and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group. The forces established a new military post in a building in the eastern neighborhood of al-Bara on the Sirgla road in Jabal al-Zawiya,…

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Australian children rescued from Syrian camps need tailored support to reintegrate into society, expert says

Shane Healey urges government to establish holistic and ‘individualised’ process for kids who spent formative years in violent conditions

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Al-Ahsa’s Yellow Lake... Life in the Saudi Desert

Nestled between sand dunes in the middle of the desert, Asfar Lake, popularly known as Yellow Lake, springs up with life in Saudi Arabia’s eastern Al-Ahsa Oasis region. Apart from being one of the Kingdom’s hidden gems, Yellow Lake is an important water resource in eastern Saudi Arabia and a…

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Why Did Iran Target the Tanf US Base in Syria?

Israel struck an “Iranian position” near a Russian base in western Syria. Drones, believed to be Iranian, retaliated by attacking an area close to the al-Tanf US base in eastern Syria without any Russia objection. The developments, which took place hours from each other, are another example of the complex…

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Hundreds Linked to ISIS Transferred From Syria to Iraq

Syria's autonomous Kurdish region transferred to the Iraqi government more than 600 relatives of ISIS group members who were detained at the notorious Al-Hol camp, a monitor said Friday. It is the fourth operation of its kind this year from the camp, which lies less than 10 kilometers (six miles)…

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Iraq's date palms: rescuing a national icon

Karbala (Iraq) (AFP) - Thousands of young date palms, Iraq's national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the horizon.

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France Repatriates 35 Children, 16 Mothers From Syria Camps

France has repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria where family members of suspected ISIS group militants have been held, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "France has today undertaken the return to the country of 35 French minors who were in camps in northeast Syria. This…

AFP

Saudi artists marvel at surprise patron: their own rulers

Al-Ula (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - In one of Saudi artist Ahmed Mater's best-known works, a silhouette of a gas pump morphs into a man holding a gun to his head –- a clear critique of oil's damaging influence.

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Syrians returning from Al-Hol camp stigmatised over IS ties

Raqa (Syria) (AFP) - Noura al-Khalif married an Islamic State group supporter and then wound up without her husband in a Syrian camp viewed by many as the last surviving pocket of the "caliphate".

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