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Late News From Syria Tonight Turkish backed jihadist forces reported advancing in southern Idlib tonight in the face of fierce resistance from the Syrian army. And early Monday morning local time a Turkish position coming under Syrian artillery fire in southern Idlib with injuries reported.... Two Syrian aircraft shot down by Turkish forces..... Syria saying that it shot down six Turkish drones today... Late today the Russian military warning that it cannot guaranteee the safety of any Turkish aircraft over Syria... Greece is facing what one official has described as an "onslaught" of migrants unleashed by Turkey towards Europe in...

UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. government expelled an Iraqi journalist who covers the United Nations (news - web sites) for the official Iraqi News Agency because he was considered "harmful to the security of the United States," the journalist and U.S. officials said Friday. Mohammed Allawi, who has reported from the United Nations for the past two years, said he received the expulsion letter signed by U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte at his Manhattan home on Thursday. The letter said that he and his family, including his five children, had 15 days to leave the United States. "The letter say I...