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Ankara hosts Iran, Russia leaders as cooperation deepens to end Syria conflict

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara Wednesday for a second trilateral summit, part of ongoing efforts to...

US pushing allies, partners to pick up slack in Syria

PENTAGON — The United States is pushing its allies and partners across the Middle East to ramp up their efforts to destroy the Islamic State terror group, saying the involvement of...

Mosul artist paints over IS graffiti with murals of city’s old glory

WASHINGTON / MOSUL, IRAQ — Walid Dabagh travels across the ruins of Mosul, hunting for traces of the Islamic State's reign of terror. Once he finds it, Dabagh replaces the violent graffiti...

UN: Syria’s Raqqa devastated, largely uninhabitable

GENEVA — A senior U.N. official reports a U.N. assessment mission to Raqqa in northern Syria has found a devastated city, littered with unexploded weapons and largely uninhabitable. The mission, in which...

New gene editing tool may yield bigger harvests

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Bread and chocolate are staples of the American diet. And a scientific team in California is working hard to make sure the plants they’re made from are as...

Trump tells Baltic leaders nobody’s been tougher on Russia than he has

WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told leaders of the Baltic states, who are worried about Russian aggression, that "nobody's tougher on Russia" than he has been, but...

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