Fresh wave of airstrikes hit Syria’s Aleppo

Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military’s General Staff speaks at a briefing at the Russian Defense Ministry’s headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Rudskoi said that Russian warplanes in Syria haven’t targeted populated areas and only struck militants’s facilities near Aleppo. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Putin said to be concerned about Israeli airstrikes in Syria

US President Barack Obama and Russia's President Vladimir Putin leave after posing for a photo ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on September 28, 2015 in New York. (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)

US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin leave after posing for a photo ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on September 28, 2015 in New York. (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)

Russian president reportedly criticizes IDF raids a day after army hits military posts in embattled territory

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Saudi Arabia launches airstrikes against Yemen rebels

A Royal Saudi Air Force fighter jet, illustrative (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

A Royal Saudi Air Force fighter jet, illustrative (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Riyadh says it will defend ‘legitimate government’; Houthi militias reportedly provide Iran with looted US intel in major security breach

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Coalition planes bomb IS ‘capital’ in Syria

Illustrative photo of two F-16 Royal Jordanian Air Force jets (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Caycee Cook, US Air Force, Wikimedia Commons)

Illustrative photo of two F-16 Royal Jordanian Air Force jets (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Caycee Cook, US Air Force, Wikimedia Commons)

Jordan steps up campaign against jihadists after murder of pilot

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US launches airstrikes around Iraq’s Haditha Dam

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FILE – In this Sunday, May 29, 2005 file photo, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Bickerstaff of Satellite Beach, Florida, uses a tent pole to bat a rock off the Haditha Dam where his unit is based, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad. The U.S. military launched airstrikes Sunday around Haditha Dam in western Iraq, targeting Islamic State insurgents there for the first time in a move to prevent the group from capturing the vital dam.  (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg, File)

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Maliki confirms Syrian planes have bombed Isis positions in Iraq

group of five men watch the iraqi prime minister on television in a baghdad cafe

Watching Nouri al-Maliki’s speech on television at a cafe in Baghdad. The PM said he had not requested the air strikes. Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP

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US condemns ISIS ‘mass execution’ as White House signals Iran cooperation on Iraq

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit Photo: AP

President Barack Obama orders national security advisers to draw up provisional plans for military intervention against jihadists’ advance which would see US on side of Iran

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