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This frame grab from undated video uploaded by militants shows an Islamic State group militant looking through some items from a seized cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in the Syrian town of Kobani, near the border with Turkey, activists said Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. The video appeared authentic and corresponded to The Associated Press' reporting of the event. (AP Photo)

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IS fighters seize weapons cache meant for Kurds

Diaa Hadid · October 21, 2014 6:07 pm

FILE - This undated image posted on Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters of the Islamic State group waving the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a Syrian activist group said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The report by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not be independently confirmed, and U.S. official said they had no reports of Islamic State group militants flying jets in support of their forces on the ground.(AP Photo/ Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

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Former Iraqi pilots train IS fighters on MiG jets

Diaa Hadid · October 17, 2014 7:08 pm

In this Sept. 8, 2014, photo, a Syrian refugee man carries a box of syrah grapes being picked in a vineyard of the Chateau Kefraya winery in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. In Syria and Lebanon, boutique wineries mainly run by Christians have endured despite decades of unrest and the fact that Islam, the majority faith in the region, forbids both the production and consumption of alcohol. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrians, Lebanese produce wine in ferment of war

Diaa Hadid · October 6, 2014 6:23 am

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Activists say Assad supporters protest in Syria

Diaa Hadid · October 2, 2014 1:04 pm

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq, as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

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US-led strikes hit IS-held oil sites in Syria

Diaa Hadid · September 25, 2014 6:17 pm

State media: Suicide car bomber kills 3 in Lebanon

Diaa Hadid · September 20, 2014 11:15 pm

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, Displaced Syrian boys and girl gather at their refugee camp during the visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres and U.N. Development Program Administrator Helen Clark, in Deir al-Ahmar village, near Baalbek city, east Lebanon. A report by the Britain-based Save the Children released Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 says that nearly three million Syrian children are not attending school due to the war raging in their country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nearly 3 million Syrian children not in school

Diaa Hadid · September 18, 2014 1:59 pm

15 Syrian children die after getting vaccinations

Diaa Hadid · September 17, 2014 5:48 pm

Syrian aircraft crashes in city held by IS group

Diaa Hadid · September 16, 2014 2:35 pm

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Islamic State beheads 2nd captive Lebanese soldier

Diaa Hadid · September 6, 2014 8:15 pm

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged cars that were burned after a Syrian government airstrike in the northeastern city of Raqqa, Syria, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting Raqqa on Saturday, killing dozens of people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said. The airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars alight and crushed people under rubble. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

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Syrian strikes on Islamic State stronghold kill 29

Diaa Hadid · September 6, 2014 6:48 pm

A U.S. soldier walks past mortars at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The United States has delivered the first shipment of weapons to Lebanon to help bolster its military as it faces a growing threat from Islamic militants amid the fallout from neighboring Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

US delivers military aid to Lebanese army

Diaa Hadid · August 29, 2014 4:24 pm