By 2018, Assad had control of Damascus and Aleppo, and the rebels were confined to a jihadist ministate in Idlib.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
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David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.
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Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
2 Sep. 2025
With warm summer waters still lingering in the North Sea, plant operators and marine scientists will be watching closely for the next unpredictable wave of these gelatinous troublemakers.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Aug. 2025
The Middle Belt and northern states are especially volatile, with Islamic militant groups like Boko Haram, Fulani extremists and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) targeting Christian communities through mass killings, kidnappings and church burnings.
The Geiers are widely viewed with contempt as promoters of unsubstantiated claims that vaccines cause autism.
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Judy Stone,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Lyte goes out of business Multiple sources reported that Lyte went out of business, shut down its website, laid off staff and left a number of concert promoters unpaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars in tickets sold on the platform in 2024.
The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.
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Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Such was the importance placed on the tree for mobilizing resistance that in 1775, it was cut down by British soldiers to demoralize the revolutionaries.
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