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Turkey: IS Has Lost All Territory Along Syria-Turkey Border

EghtesadOnline: Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists' self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey's prime minister and a Syrian opposition group reported.
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Publish Date:05/September/2016 | 09:33

'Terror fight needs global determination'

EghtesadOnline: A senior Iranian lawmaker says firm international resolve is required to counter the scourge of terrorism plighting Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq and Syria.
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Publish Date:04/September/2016 | 10:07

Turkish tanks roll into Syria, opening new line of attack

EghtesadOnline: Turkey and its rebel allies opened a new line of attack in northern Syria on Saturday, as Turkish tanks rolled across the border and Syrian fighters swept in from the west to take villages held by Islamic State.
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Publish Date:04/September/2016 | 04:53

Putin Says Russia and U.S. Close to Breakthrough Deal on Syria

EghtesadOnline: Vladimir Putin said Russia and the U.S. are close to striking a deal on fighting terrorists in Syria, potentially a major step toward ending a civil war that’s flooded Europe with refugees and helped give rise to Islamic State.
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Publish Date:03/September/2016 | 11:11

Turkey pushes west in offensive against Islamic State in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Turkey renewed air strikes on Islamic State sites in Syria on Friday, extending operations along a 90-km (56-mile) corridor near the Turkish border which Ankara says it is clearing of jihadists and protecting from Kurdish militia expansion.
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Publish Date:03/September/2016 | 10:40

Obituary: Veteran Uzbek leader Karimov battled Islamists, suppressed dissent

EghtesadOnline: Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who the government said on Friday had died aged 78 after suffering a stroke, saw himself as the protector of his Central Asian nation against the threat of militant Islam. To his critics, he was a brutal dictator who used torture to stay in power.
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Publish Date:03/September/2016 | 06:48

Russia Says It Killed Islamic State Leader U.S. Targeted

EghtesadOnline: Russia said it killed one of Islamic State’s most senior figures, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, after the Pentagon said that U.S.-led coalition forces carried out a “precision strike” against him.
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Publish Date:01/September/2016 | 08:45

Veep: Takfiri groups trying to destabilize Iran

EghtesadOnline: Takfiri terrorist groups including Daesh ( ISIS ) are doing their best to destabilize Iran, Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 10:59

U.S. lauds fragile respite between Turkey, Kurdish fighters in Syria

EghtesadOnline: The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting Islamic State, but it was far from clear that any truce would hold.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 07:11

Key Islamic State leader killed in apparent U.S. strike in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 03:56

Iran slams terror attack in Iraq’s Karbala

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Monday condemned the heinous crimes perpetrated by terrorists in Karbala province in Iraq by Daesh terrorist and Takfiri groups.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 13:09

Libyan forces say Islamic State beaten back in Sirte

EghtesadOnline: Libyan forces said they captured a residential neighborhood in central Sirte from Islamic State on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still occupied by the militants.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 07:15

U.S. tries to stop feuding allies from unraveling Syria strategy

EghtesadOnline: The United States scrambled on Monday to get its feuding allies, Turkey and Kurdish YPG militia, to focus their firepower on Islamic State instead of each other after clashes that have threatened to unravel America's war strategy in Syria.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 06:33

High toll for Libyan troops battling Islamic State in Sirte

EghtesadOnline: At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wounded on Sunday as they closed in on the last Islamic State militant holdouts in the coastal city of Sirte, according to field hospitals.
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Publish Date:29/August/2016 | 07:09