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Israeli military forces hit targets in Syria early Sunday morning in retaliation for two batches of rocket attacks launched by a Damascus-based Palestinian group loyal to the Syrian regime.

The Pentagon said on Thursday that six U.S. troops in Syria suffered traumatic brain injuries after an attack on their positions last week by Iran-backed militias.

The U.S. military launched multiple precision airstrikes against targets in Syria after an attack using an Iranian drone killed an American contractor and wounded six others, including five U.S. soldiers.

Biden is practically inviting China to impose a peace deal in Europe, much as Obama invited Russia back into the Middle East.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad during a visit to Moscow this week wholeheartedly supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, offering his government’s official recognition of the phony “independent republics” Russia carved out of eastern Ukraine, and said he would like more Russian forces stationed permanently in Syria.

Palestinian schools run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees — to which President Joe Biden has given almost a billion dollars since entering office — still teach inciting content against Israel, including “regularly calling for the murder of Jews,” a new

Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) discussed his push to eliminate a U.S. troop presence in Syria.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) expects to receive no Democrat support when his resolution on withdrawing American troops from Syria is up for a vote on Wednesday, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.

Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen born in California who lately resided in Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty last week to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit parts of Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 continues to rise as more bodies are retrieved from the rubble of demolished buildings.

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 1,470 people from five states whose nationals’ asylum claims will now be fast-tracked without officials even talking to them in 2022 alone, Breitbart Europe can reveal. 

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) proposed a resolution on Tuesday to remove American troops from Syria.

A British court has denied an appeal by Shamima Begum, the former bride of an Islamic State fighter, to regain her British citizenship. 

At least six more deaths were reported by Turkish officials from Monday’s magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Hatay province, plus two deaths in Syria reported by the White Helmets civil defense organization.

The death toll rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck the Turkey-Syria border region on Monday afternoon, causing further damage in areas that were devastated by the more powerful quakes of two weeks ago

According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Syrian government troops fought with rebel forces in the region devastated by the earthquakes of February 6 on Thursday night, the first battles in the affected area since the disaster occurred.

A Turkish charity organization filed a criminal complaint on Friday in the name of orphans and lost children it claimed have been victims of human trafficking in the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit the country and Syria on February 6.

Authorities in Turkey revealed on Thursday that they had identified 613 people “accused of making provocative posts” on social media related to the devastating earthquake that hit that country this week, arresting 78 and starting legal actions against nearly 300.

The famed Syrian civil defense organization known as the White Helmets on Tuesday condemned the United Nations for its “shocking” decision to work with dictator Bashar Assad on earthquake relief.

The United Nations said on Sunday that disaster relief for quake-ravaged towns in Syria is being held up by a “hardline group” that refuses to allow aid convoys from government-controlled areas to enter its turf. The group in question soon revealed itself to be Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebranded Nusra Front, which was itself an offshoot of al-Qaeda.

Authorities in Turkey are struggling to house the thousands of people left destitute after a series of massive earthquakes in the country last week, rushing to build tents and transfer earthquake victims to shelters a week later.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.

Turkish officials have detained 130 people allegedly involved in illegal construction methods as rescuers on Sunday looked to extricate more survivors of last week’s devastating earthquakes now estimated to have claimed more than 33,000 lives.

Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.

The government of Turkey is struggling to address the growing problem of caring for and homing babies found in the wreckage of Monday’s devastating set of earthquakes but having no apparent adult relatives, the national newspaper Hurriyet reported on Friday.

Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday sought to portray the United States as “cold-hearted” and cheap because it has not lifted sanctions against the homicidal Syrian dictatorship supported by Beijing in the wake of Monday’s devastating earthquakes.

The confirmed death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria passed 19,000 on Thursday.

Rescue teams in Syria and Turkey continue to search for survivors on Thursday after a set of two earthquakes over magnitude seven devastated cities in both countries on Monday – and, on some rare occasions, have managed to pull newborns, seniors, and entire families from the wreckage.

Chinese state media on Tuesday was stuffed with articles about the humanitarian aid China is sending to Turkey and Syria in the wake of Monday’s devastating earthquakes, including about $6 million in emergency assistance, a rescue team with 82 members, and satellite surveillance of the affected region.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign affairs announced on Wednesday that the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” will send 10 million Afghanis in aid (about $111,000) to Turkey, and half that amount to Syria, “on the basis of shared humanity and Islamic brotherhood” after Monday’s extremely destructive earthquakes.

The devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday damaged a prison in the Syrian town of Rajo near the Turkish border, giving its 2,000 prisoners an opportunity to riot, during which at least 20 of them reportedly escaped.

Thinly stretched rescue workers dug through the night into Wednesday morning to reach survivors trapped beneath the rubble of the devastating earthquake that rocked southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria two days ago.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a three-month state of emergency in ten provinces due to Monday’s devastating earthquakes. The focus on reconstruction did not prevent Turkish forces from bombing Kurdish militia positions in Syria.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Tuesday that it will provide assistance to preserve World Heritage sites in Turkey and Syria that were damaged by Monday’s devastating earthquakes.