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OSCE Special Representative, at 5+2 Transdniestrian settlement talks, highlights need to maintain momentum

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson for protracted conflicts, Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, chairing a 5+2 meeting on the...

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Mortar Rounds Hit Near Syrian Palace as Aleppo Death Toll Mounts

Syrian rebels fired mortar rounds at one of President Bahsar al-Assad's palaces in Damascus Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 31 from a separate missile strike late Monday in the northern commercial city of Aleppo.

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Somalia: UN Political Office condemns recent wave of terror attacks

A scene from Lido beach in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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Jihadists and Islamists Clash in Syria

The gunmen came for Syrian Islamist rebel commander Thaer al-Waqqas riding in a battered white car. As they arrived, he was shouting orders at a food supply depot in the town of Sermin, a few kilometers from the border with Turkey. He had no time to...

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