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A handout photograph released by Syria’s national news agency SANA on March 15, 2014, shows a view of a part of the town of Yabroud in Syria, which lies north of Damascus near the Lebanese border. (Reuters/SANA/Handout via Reuters)

Syrian forces fully control rebel stronghold near Lebanon

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Syria said its military seized a key town that served as a rebel supply hub on the Lebanese border on Sunday after a months-long army offensive. Activists said fighting was still ongoing but the government was in effective control of much of Yabroud....

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Fighters of al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carry their weapons during a parade at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey January 2, 2014.
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Al-Qaeda breaks links with ISIS

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 3, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Al-Qaeda’s general command said on Monday it had no links with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in an apparent attempt to reassert its authority over fragmented Islamist fighters in Syria’s civil war. After a month of rebel...

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A convoy of Iraqi security forces’ armored vehicles moves along during clashes with Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Anbar province, Iraq, on February 1, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Iraqi Defense Ministry says dozens of ISIS men killed in Anbar

by Hamza Mustafa | Feb 3, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that its forces had killed dozens of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters in Ramadi, the center of Anbar province, while the army’s Anbar HQ denied that it had set a date to begin an...

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This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/militant website)

Opinion: The Haji Bakr files

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Jan 29, 2014 | Opinion

If the reports are true, then a key Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader, Haji Bakr, has been killed in Aleppo at the hands of Syrian rebels. But just who is Haji Bakr? He is a mysterious figure; some say that he is the mastermind behind the rise of the...

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Residents in Aleppo inspect the damage caused by suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). (Reuters/Ahmad Othman)

Syria: ISIS regains control of strongholds in Raqqa

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 13, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Reports on Sunday said the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) regained control of most of its strongholds in the town of Raqqa, northeast Syria, dealing a severe blow to Syrian opposition groups who have been...