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Russian President Putin: More false flags could follow after Idlib attack

Citing Russian intelligence, President Vladimir Putin warned that an incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in the Idlib area was imminent, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb. Mr. Putin said the goal was to discredit Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

Gas tragedy puts Syria's sustainability in question

The United Nations failed on April 6 to produce a resolution for the second time in two days regarding the Syrian gas attack on April 4, which killed at least 86, many of them children, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun near Idlib, in the northwest of the country, because of objections by Russia, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

Dozens killed in Allepo, US denies targeting mosque

The United States has said it conducted an air strike in Syria against an al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a mosque where a monitor said 46 people were killed on March 17.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead in the raid on al-Jineh, in Aleppo province, were civilians.

957 suspected ISIL militants caught in February in Turkey

Some 957 suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were apprehended in security operations carried out across Turkey in February. Some 122 militants were arrested, while security forces seized ammunition, weapons, documents and explosive materials, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Syria jihadist infighting kills nearly 70, says monitor

Nearly 70 fighters from two formerly allied jihadist groups have been killed during infighting over the past 24 hours in northern Syria, a monitor said on Feb. 14.

The clashes between former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham and the hardline jihadist Jund al-Aqsa faction erupted on the morning of Feb. 13, after tensions over influence in the northwestern province of Idlib.

Belgian jihadist jailed for murder in Syria

A Belgian court on Feb. 13 sentenced a jihadist to 28 years in jail for committing murder in Syria, the Belga news agency said, adding that it was the country's first such conviction.

The 24-year-old man, named Hakim Elouassaki, was a member of Sharia4Belgium, a radical Islamist group based in the northern city of Antwerp.

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