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Security Forces To Curb Fuel Smuggling from Syria to Lebanon

Syrian authorities have closed the smuggling crossings along the border with northeastern Lebanon, in an effort to curb increasing smuggling of fuel, vegetables and livestock from Syria. Smuggling activities from Syrian territory to Lebanon have increased over the past months due to the difference in the prices of basic commodities.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Power Cuts Help Revive Syrian Tradition of Public Bathhouses

At Hammam Bakri in Damascus' Old City, Syrian men wrapped in towels from the waist down lie down on a scalding marble floor. Masseurs vigorously scrub their skin with a soap-soaked loofah and wash them down with hot water. Around a hexagonal fountain outside — traditionally found in old Damascene…

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Factbox-After the fall, Islamic State strikes from Iraq and Syria hinterlands

Nearly three years after their self-declared caliphate was dismantled and their forces defeated in a battle by the Euphrates river, Islamic State fighters are waging a guerrilla campaign from remote regions of Iraq and Syria.

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Islamic State hits back, aided by power vacuum in Iraq and Syria

Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by Islamic State.

Reuters

Power cuts help revive Syrian tradition of public bathhouses

At Hammam Bakri in Damascus’ Old City, Syrian men wrapped in towels from the waist down lie down on a scalding marble floor

The Independent UK

OPCW: Chlorine Used on Syrian Opposition Area in 2016

Chlorine was used in an attack on an opposition-held area in Syria in 2016 in which at least 20 people suffered breathing difficulties, the world's chemical weapons watchdog concluded Tuesday. The incident near a field hospital outside the town of Kafr Zeita came shortly after witnesses reported a helicopter dropping…

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Turkish Warplanes Hit Kurdish Militant Targets in Iraq, Syria

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militants targets, including training camps, shelters and ammunition storage areas in Iraq and northern Syria, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. All the planes taking part in the operation, which it said targeted the areas of Derik, Sincar and Karacak, subsequently returned to their bases.

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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in Iraq, Syria - defence minister

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets, including training camps, shelters and ammunition storage areas in Iraq and northern Syria, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

Reuters

UN: Two Babies Killed by Winter Cold in Northwest Syria

Two Syrian infant girls have died from harsh winter weather in northwest Syria where snow and rain have destroyed the tents of hundreds of displaced families, the United Nations said Tuesday. "A seven-day-old girl and a two-month-old girl have died from the cold in Idlib province," the UN's humanitarian agency…

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South Korea Seal World Cup Spot with Win over Syria

South Korea booked their place at the World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday after Paulo Bento's side beat Syria 2-0 in Dubai to confirm their progress to a 10th consecutive finals. Second-half goals from Kim Jin-su and Kwon Chang-hoon ensured the Koreans continue a run of successive qualifications that stretches…

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Two babies freeze to death in IDP camps in Syria’s Idlib

Freezing cold weather over the past two weeks has swept Idlib, home to almost two million displaced Syrians.

Al Jazeera

Washington Commends SDF Role in Ending ISIS’ Assault in Syria’s Hasakah

US President Joe Biden’s administration praised the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their role in taking control of the Hasakah prison in northeastern Syria. This comes following ISIS attacks that promoted the US to launch airstrikes to support the SDF during the battles that left over 490 dead. US…

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Assad: Dealing with Changes in Arab Reality Requires Changing Political Approach, Thinking

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that “dealing with changes in reality and Arab society requires changing the political approach and thinking.” This came during his meeting with the Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi in Damascus. According to state-owned SANA, Assad and Albusaidi reviewed “the distinguished relations that bind Syria…

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Woman accused of leading female ISIL unit appears in US court

Allison Fluke-Ekren, a former teacher and Kansas resident, faces up to 20 years in jail on ‘terrorism’ charges in US.

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US-allied Syria force says it foiled major IS comeback plot

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force says that a prison overrun by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria is now fully under its control

Al Jazeera

Syria intercepts Israeli missiles targeting Damascus: State media

Israeli air raids reportedly targeted military outpost, weapons depot used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how fake passports allow IS members to enter Europe and US

Seller whose passports have been used by those who illegally crossed Syrian border says: ‘it is not my job to see who is bad’

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Iraqi Airstrikes Kill 9 ISIS Militants

Iraqi airstrikes killed nine suspected ISIS militants, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an ISIS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday. ISIS gunmen in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on Jan. 21, killed a guard…

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Syrian Kurdish Forces End Mop-up Operations in ISIS-hit Jail

US-backed Kurdish forces on Sunday said they had defeated all ISIS group militants left inside the Syrian jail that the extremists stormed 10 days ago, sparking battles that left over 370 dead. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the end of its mopping-up campaign inside the prison "after ending…

Reuters

Syria intercepts Israeli missiles near Damascus - state media

Syrian air defences intercepted an Israeli missile barrage targeting the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, Syrian state media said early on Monday, citing a military source.

Al Jazeera

Fighting ongoing in Syria’s Hassakeh as SDF raids ISIL hideouts

Kurdish-led militia is still battling ISIL fighters in Syria’s northeast after they assaulted a prison on January 20.

Asharq Al-Awsat

ISIS Strikes from Shadows in Vulnerable Syria, Iraq

With a spectacular jail break in Syria and a deadly attack on an army barracks in Iraq, the ISIS group was back in the headlines the past week, a reminder of a war that formally ended three years ago but continues to be fought mostly away from view. The attacks…

The Independent UK

Islamic State strikes from shadows in vulnerable Syria, Iraq

Islamic State group militants carried out two of their boldest attacks in years last week

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Korea to Face Syria with World Cup Berth in Sight

South Korea's World Cup qualification hopes remain in their own hands as they prepare to take on Syria in Dubai on Tuesday, knowing victory will secure their place in Qatar after celebrations were put on hold last week. Paulo Bento's side defeated Lebanon in Thursday's matches in Group A of…

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Clashes Near Syria Prison Hit by ISIS

Clashes broke out Saturday between Kurdish forces and ISIS fighters near a Syrian prison where dozens of extremists are still holed up, a war monitor said. An ISIS assault on the sprawling Ghwayran prison complex near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on January 20 sparked days of heavy fighting…

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