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Killings show ISIS remains a threat in Syria's desert 5 years after losing its caliphate
In two attacks on Wednesday, ISIS militants reportedly killed a total of 19 Syrian government troops in the Homs desert in central Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
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Islamic State jihadists ‘execute’ eight Syrian soldiers after desert ambush
It was defeated territorially in Syria in 2019, but its remnants continue to carry out deadly attacks, particularly in the vast Badia desert, which runs from the outskirts of Damascus to the Iraqi ...
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Archaeologists push to restore Syria’s war-torn heritage sites, including Palmyra
Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned for its 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins. It is now marked by shattered columns and damaged temples. Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and ...
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I quit job as Brit banker to fight ISIS monsters who used babies as shields – I’m terrified they’ll return to UK streets
MACER Gifford watched as bloodied ISIS terrorists limped out of the bombed-out city of Raqqa and into the Syrian desert, broken and defeated. After three years of brutal street fighting against ...
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Syrian forces crack down on Islamic State in Syrian desert
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Islamic State escalates attacks in Syrian desert
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Australian women who lived under Islamic State speak from Syria for first time since the fall of the Assad regime
Australia Street is in a camp deep in the Syrian desert, 30 kilometres from the Iraqi border. Ms Rosse-Emile has been detained in the camps for six years, after being captured by Kurdish forces ...
Experts call for restoration of Syria’s heritage sites, including the Roman ruins at Palmyra
Following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, experts are turning their attention to the country’s war-torn heritage sites, hoping to restore these treasures and revive a tourism industry ...
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Syrian GIS
Following in the footsteps of Father A. Poidebard in the Syrian desert, the Finnish project uses modern remote-sensing methods in prospecting, mapping and surveying the largely unexplored mountainous ...
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Russia, Syrian helicopter pilots conduct first joint exercise in desert
The first joint exercise of Russian and Syrian helicopter pilots has taken place in a Syrian desert, Chief of Aviation of the Russian forces in Syria Andrei Yermakov told reporters. "Today ...
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Experts push to restore Syria’s war-torn heritage sites, including renowned Roman ruins at Palmyra
Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned for its 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins. It is now marked by shattered columns and damaged temples. Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and ...