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Ankara stepped up its fight against militants in Turkey and northern Syria with airstrikes on Kurdish rebel positions in the restive southeast and Daesh extremists in northern Syria, security sources said on September 4, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

September 5th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Gains on Turkish border cut Daesh off from supply route

Rebel groups have captured the last border villages from Daesh, effectively cutting it off from the outside world.

Bodies of Syrians killed in the chemical attack in Damascus on August 21 lie in a makeshift morgue. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 115,000 people have died in the war so far. (AFP/File)

October 1st, 2013 - 01:33 GMT

Activists: More than 115,000 dead in Syria conflict