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The Belgian citizens have already been sentenced to prison in their homeland.
It's now a matter of waiting for the last pockets of resistance to use up all their munitions. Iraqis celebrating the liberation of Mosul from Islamic State militants after three years of occupation. But the retaking of Iraq's second city comes at a very high cost. Lives have been lost and trust has been broken between Sunni, Shia, Kurdish, Yazidi communities. Can one of the world's oldest cities rebound? If so, how? What role for Baghdad?
Syria: the Islamic state group claims responsibility for all five bomb attacks
As the skies over Syria get yet more crowded, we may be witnessing another turning point in a conflict now in its sixth year. Turkish planes have been both Isis and Kurds inside Syria - the prospect of a unified autonomous Kurdish region at Turkey's border is enough to have President Erdogan burying the hatchet with Assad's backers in Tehran and Moscow. Detente with Damascus would certainly be a turning point.
As the skies over Syria get yet more crowded, we may be witnessing another turning point in a conflict now in its sixth year. Turkish planes have been both Isis and Kurds inside Syria - the prospect of a unified autonomous Kurdish region at Turkey's border is enough to have President Erdogan burying the hatchet with Assad's backers in Tehran and Moscow. Detente with Damascus would certainly be a turning point.
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