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Northeast Syria administration plans trials for ISIS suspects this spring

The Kurdish autonomous administration in northeast Syria will begin trials of ISIS suspects in the spring, Abdulkarim Omar said

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Car bomb kills Turkish soldiers, Syrian fighters in contested northeast

Three Turkish soldiers and at least four Syrian fighters were killed in the latest car bombing near the town of Tal Abyad in northeast Syria

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What the ‘Vengeance for the Two Sheikhs’ campaign says about new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not appear to have reduced ISIS’s capabilities, and new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi seems to be carrying on his legacy

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Russian troops enter Syria’s Raqqa, filling void of withdrawing US forces

The Russian military moved into ISIS's former capital at Raqqa in northeast Syria following an agreement with the SDF

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Esper says US pullback from parts of northeast Syria complete

The US has completed a pullback of forces from contested areas of northeast Syria, Defense Secretary Esper told Reuters on Wednesday

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Contempt and violence spiral in al-Hol camp, where ISIS women dread regime’s return

With winter approaching and tensions in Syria's al-Hol camp at a boiling point, some ISIS-affiliated women said they intend to escape

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US deployment to Syria’s oilfields won’t halt further Turkish attacks, Kurdish official says

US forces guarding northeast Syria's oilfields will not prevent an expansion of Turkey’s incursion, TEV-DEM official Aldar Xelil said

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UK to repatriate first British children of ISIS-linked parents from Syria

The UK will for the first time repatriate orphan children of British parents who had traveled to join ISIS in Syria

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US citizen ISIS member wants to know why he can’t go home

Kosovar-American Lirim Sulejmani traveled with his family to Syria to live under ISIS. Now in an SDF prison, he recalled the allure of the group’s propaganda

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Tel Tamer’s hectic hospital belies northern Syria ceasefire

Near the front line town of Tel Tamer, Syrian rebels backed by Turkish airpower and artillery capture a new village nearly every day

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