Middle East
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Feb- 2019 -28 February
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza after ‘explosive balloon’ damages house
Israeli aircraft targeted military sites in Gaza after an "explosive balloon" damaged a house in Israel, the army said
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25 February
Iraq will prosecute 13 French ISIS fighters captured in Syria, president says
Iraqi courts will prosecute 13 French citizens captured while fighting for ISIS in Syria, Iraq's President Barham Salih said
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22 February
Around 200 US “peacekeeping” troops will stay in Syria
The US military will keep around 200 "peacekeeping" troops in Syria, the White House said, weeks after President Trump announced US forces would withdraw
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22 February
Family of UK ISIS member Shamima Begum says they will fight move to strip her citizenship
The family of London teenager Shamima Begum, who joined ISIS in Syria, said they would challenge the UK's decision to revoke her citizenship
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21 February
Iraqi army and Peshmerga survey disputed territories ahead of joint operations
The KRG Peshmerga and Iraqi Army began surveying areas of Iraq’s disputed territories in preparation for joint operations more than a year after relations broke down
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21 February
French ISIS fighter Fabien Clain targeted in overnight airstrike in Syria
A French ISIS fighter who became notorious after claiming responsibility for the November Paris 2015 attacks was killed in an airstrike
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21 February
Raqqa civil defense uncovers ISIS mass grave of 3,500 people
Below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa lies a large and deadly legacy of ISIS: a mass grave holding an estimated 3,500 people
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20 February
Women and children from last ISIS pocket in Syria evacuated
A convoy of trucks evacuated dozens of people including women and children from ISIS's last Syria territory, bringing the SDF closer to retaking the last of the "caliphate"
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18 February
Alliance between SDF and Syrian regime is “very far away,” senior Kurdish official Salih Muslim says
Senior Kurdish politician Salih Muslim said a military partnership between the SDF and the Assad government is “very far away” and will depend on a negotiated political solution
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18 February
Iran arrests 3 ‘terrorists’ over suicide bomb attack that killed 27 IRGC members
Iran's IRGC said it arrested three "terrorists" involved in last week's deadly suicide bomb attack on security forces in Balochistan
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