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Another four Islamic State fighters were killed in the strikes Tuesday near Raqqa, the eastern city which has been the group’s stronghold in Syria for the last two years.

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David Cameron has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is making “a awful mistake” by sending jets to prop up Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad insisted that Russia’s daily airstrikes in Syria are essential to securing peace in the Middle East during a Sunday interview on Iranian TV.

Russia’s air forces will intensify airstrikes against the posts of extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, a senior military official has said.

USA president Barack Obama has backed down before on Syria.

“Despite concerted efforts to stem the flow, we have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists,” the report determined.

Russia carried out a third day of air strikes Friday in Syria, saying it targeted Islamic State jihadists, as Russian President Vladimir Putin faced increased worldwide criticism over his military campaign.

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation this month into Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for alleged crimes against humanity, launching a case that highlights the divisions between the world’s major military powers over...

Russian Federation on Thursday insisted its warplanes in Syria were hitting at the same terrorists targeted by the United States and contradicted American criticism that its military failed to coordinate the airstrikes, describing the allegations as a “war of...

The two leaders will meet in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

A statement issued by the Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group“, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

Sky’s diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn said: “Putin’s been flying drones over parts of Syria, not where Islamic State are based, but where there are rebel groups, a few of whom are close to, and are backed by America”.

“Instead, countries including the United States rely on a patchwork system for swapping individual extremist identities”, the report found, calling that system “an inherently weak arrangement that increases the odds a foreign fighter will be able to cross the...

“Some of his meetings and scheduled programs will be cancelled and he is returning (to Tehran) on Monday afternoon”, IRNA quoted a senior official from Rouhani’s office as saying.