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ernorate. It is located 162 kilometers (101 mi) north of Damascus on the Orontes River and was the central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast. Previous to the Syrian war, Horns was a major industrial center, and with a population of at least 652,609 people in 2004, it was the third l
States escalate its air war in Iraq and Syria, send additional Special Forces, or enforce a buffer zone, which the head of Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, has said would require deploying U.S. ground troops. Most Americans now favor doing just that. The primary justification for this new hawkishness
5/02, Staff Writer) reported that the United States has returned some 80 ancient artifacts, including coins and limestone sculptures, to Cyprus, the Mediterranean island nation's Department of Antiquities said Tuesday. According to the article, the antiquities were recovered after U.S. authorities seized them
nto the U.S. Reports also mention that the troops will be deployed for 90 days and will be pulled from the Army and Marine Corps. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will look to backfill with National Guard or Reserve troops during that period, Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said. According to
tate of Iraq and al Sham—isn't a threat only to Iraq and S=ria. It seeks to impose its vision of a single radical Islamist state stre=ching from the Mediterranean coast of Syria through modern Iraq, the region of the Islamic Caliphates established in t=e seventh and eighth centuries. The threat of Sunni=extre
the interests of the United States. Today, foreign fi=hters from around the globe are said to number anywhere from 8,000— t=e estimate given by Gen. Lloyd Austin, U.S. Central Commander—to 12,000,=and several of the groups are linked to al- Qaeda. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said in April
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