Thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border.
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US Official Says Israel Is Behind the Recent Attack in Syria

An airstrike on Sunday night targeting pro-Assad forces fighting Daesh was initially blamed on the US by Syrian state media.

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Pentagon Admits ‘No One Will Ever Know’ How Many Civilians US Has Killed Fighting ISIS

While representatives of the U.S. government communicate their supposed disapproval of civilian casualties, report after report continues to show that the U.S.-led anti-ISIS campaigns are responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians, many more than reported by the U.S. government.

Pentagon Admits ‘No One Will Ever Know’ How Many Civilians US Has Killed Fighting ISIS

WASHINGTON -- Four years into America’s assault on the Islamic State, the Pentagon now acknowledges it has no idea how many civilians it has killed during its campaign to defeat ISIS. In fact, the United States military will never know how many civilians it killed, the Pentagon

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Emma Fiala is MPN's Editorial Assistant and social media guru. She is also a documentary photographer, mom of two, and an independent journalist. Her stories have been featured on MintPress News, the Anti-Media, Media Roots, and Steemit. Find her on Twitter.

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Amnesty: US-Led Coalition Committed War Crimes In Raqqa, Syria

“Everyone we spoke to in Raqqa agreed that Isis had to be defeated. But they asked why their families had to be killed and their city destroyed in the process.”

Amnesty: US-Led Coalition Committed War Crimes In Raqqa, Syria

LONDON -- Last year’s Washington-led coalition effort against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in the Syrian city of Raqqa included numerous “disproportionate or indiscriminate” attacks on the city, showing little regard for civilian lives and constituting potential war crimes, a new

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Elliott Gabriel

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Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and a MintPress News contributor based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

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Iran To File Lawsuit Against “ISIS Founder”: United States

Iran is reportedly prepping to sue Washington for terror attacks carried out against Tehran within the last year.

Iran To File Lawsuit Against “ISIS Founder”: United States

After a US federal judge in New York ordered Iran to pay billions of dollars to the families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks earlier this month in a largely symbolic default judgement, Iran is reportedly prepping to sue

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US State Department Tells Syria What It Can and Can’t Do on Its Own Soil

Washington is issuing orders to a nation whose leadership never invited America in in the first place.

US State Department Tells Syria What It Can and Can’t Do on Its Own Soil

The US State Department has warned Syria against launching an offensive against terrorist positions in southern Syria. The statement claims that the

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Russia’s Foreign Minister Revives Calls for US to End Support for ISIS in Syria

ISIS militants are seemingly given free rein to operate across a vast 100-kilometer zone at the border with Jordan, where they seemingly pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” for ambushes of Syrian government troops before fading back into U.S.-controlled territory.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Revives Calls for US to End Support for ISIS in Syria

MOSCOW – As the Syrian government struggles to stabilize the still-volatile situation within its borders, the United States has continued to drag out the conflict by supporting groups related to the Islamic State (ISIS), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday. The pointed comment underscored long-standing allegations

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Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and a MintPress News contributor based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

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An Iranian Perspective on the Battle for Syria

A new feature film from Iran gives a different perspective of the war raging in Syria and the fight against ISIS than Western audiences are accustomed to.

An Iranian Perspective on the Battle for Syria

West against East on the Syrian battlefield, in the newspapers and now on film: A new, full-length action movie, titled “Damascus Time,” gives an Iranian perspective on the battle against ISIS in Syria.

The movie comes from Iranian screenwriter and film director Ebrahim Hatamikia. Two

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