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US Coalition Air Strike Kills 33 Civilians At Syrian School

Airwars, a UK-based organisation which monitors international air strikes against ISIS, suggested as many as 370 civilian deaths could be attributed to coalition raids in the first week of March alone.

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The destruction in Maysaloun school in #Tabqah after several ِairstrikes on it yesterday in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo: Twitter @@Raqqa_SL)

A suspected US air strike on a school being used as a shelter by families displaced from the Isil-held Syrian city of Raqqa killed at least 33 people on Tuesday, in the latest high civilian casualty raid by the coalition. A school being used by some 50 families in Mansoura, 15 miles from the capital of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

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Facebook Blocks RT From Posting Until After Trump Inauguration

RT said the block came following a complaint by Current Time TV, a broadcasting organisation linked to the US government.

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Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

(REPORT) ---  Facebook has blocked RT, the Kremlin-backed English news outlet formerly known as Russia Today, from posting videos, photos and news articles until the day after Donald Trump's inauguration. The ban was enacted after a copyright complaint about a video stream of Barack Obama's press conference on RT's Facebook page on

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BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users

The BBC is to launch a new generation of detection vans to identify viewers illicitly watching its programs online.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to deploy vans next month across the country which will capture information from private Wi-Fi networks in a bid to catch those not paying their TV license fees, but who are still using iPlayer to watch content. For those unclear about the rules, the BBC requires people to have a TV license if

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Hillary Clinton Will Reset Syria Policy Against ‘Murderous’ Assad Regime

Hillary Clinton will order a “full review” of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a “first key task” of her presidency, resetting the policy to emphasise the “murderous” nature of the Assad regime, foreign policy adviser with her campaign has said. Jeremy Bash, who served as chief of staff for the Pentagon and the Central […]

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a church in Philadelphia, Friday, July 8, 2016.

Hillary Clinton will order a "full review" of the United States' strategy on Syria as a "first key task" of her presidency, resetting the policy to emphasise the "murderous" nature of the Assad regime, foreign policy adviser with her campaign has said. Jeremy Bash, who served as chief of staff for the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence

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US Air Strike In Syria Kills Nearly 60 Civilians ‘Mistaken’ For ISIS

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes appeared to have been carried out in error, with the civilians mistaken for ISIS militants.

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US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria on Tuesday after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee fighting in their area, in one of the single deadliest strikes on civilians by the alliance since the start of its operations in the war-torn

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British Special Forces ‘Operating Inside Syria Alongside Rebels’

New evidence shows that British troops have been directly involved in aiding the Syrian rebellion.

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Free Syrian Army fighters take cover from incoming Syrian Army fire in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP/Manu Brabo)

British special forces are operating on the front line against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria, according to rebel commanders. The Times reports that they have been defending a rebel unit against Isil attacks, marking the first evidence of the troop's direct involvement involvement inside Syria rather than training fighters in

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American Claims Asylum In Canada Saying ‘Police Will Kill Me Because I’m Black’

Kyle Canty applies for refugee status claiming he risks brutality in the United States.

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Kyle Lydell Canty. Photo: CBS News

A black American man has applied for refugee status in Canada claiming he risks being killed by police in his home country because of his race. Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, filed a claim for asylum and told a hearing of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board that black people in America were "being exterminated at an alarming rate". To

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