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Middle East
Turkey rejects latest proposals on Syria safe-zone, accuses US of stalling
Turkey rejected the latest US proposals to establish a controversial safe zone in SDF-controlled northeast Syria
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Middle East
Mahdi orders full integration of Shia militias into Iraq’s armed forces
Iraq’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi ordered the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) to integrate into the Iraqi armed forces or disarm
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Middle East
Turkish military shells Syrian positions in retaliation for regime fire
Turkish forces struck Syrian positions in response to an artillery strike that killed a soldier and wounded three others in southwestern Idlib
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Middle East
New Syrian military councils are the SDF’s latest push for decentralization
Military councils in Tal Abyad, Kobane, Tabqa, Raqqa, Qamishli and al-Hol are part of the SDF’s transition to a “new organizational structure” in northeast Syria
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Middle East
Raqqa security deteriorates as US drawdown threatens northern Syria stability
The drawdown of US troops from Syria has made Coalition allies’ sustained commitment to the counter-ISIS mission significantly more difficult
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Middle East
Pro-regime and Iran-backed militias sweep Syria-Iraq border for ISIS cells
The National Defense Forces, Syrian Arab Army troops, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units are sweeping the border for ISIS cells
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Middle East
Iraqi police officer killed by Coalition ‘friendly fire’ near Kirkuk
An Iraqi federal police officer was killed and two others wounded by US-led Coalition aircraft fire near Kirkuk
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Middle East
ISIS steps up attacks on pro-Assad troops in Syria’s Badia desert
ISIS claims deadly attacks against Syrian government and pro-regime forces west of the Euphrates
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Africa
Fighting continues in Tripoli after US relocates personnel from key Libya operations center
Khalifa Haftar’s LNA advanced near a key US operations center near Tripoli prior to the evacuation of US personnel from the area
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Africa
Haftar’s Libyan National Army advances on Tripoli as western militias mobilize
General Khalifa Haftar ordered his Libyan National Army to move on the capital Tripoli ahead of UN talks aimed at a political “road map”
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