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This Iranian airline is one of the Assad regime's lifelines
It's hard to fly to Damascus these days.Even if Russia's military intervention in the country has the ruling Assad regime breathing easier after months of infighting, manpower shortages, and...
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Turkish troops crossed into Syria to build a wall
Turkish troops have crossed into Syrian territory to conduct construction work on a separation wall along their country’s border with the Idlib town of Atmeh near a Syrian refugee camp. Both pro-rebel...
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Even Iranian politicians are arriving in Syria before a huge ground offensive...
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed.The...
View ArticleRussia is being accused of bombing a school in Syria
Syrian rebels are saying that the Russian military just bombed a school in Idlib, Syria. "This is a school," a man said, pointing at a pile of rubble. "In two to three months we will rebuild it and...
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Here's what life is like for a family of Syrian refugees living in Utah
Kholoud Abou Arida doesn't care much for American food. She thinks it has far too many calories and isn't healthy.She is a fan of how many freedoms she has in the US compared to her previous home in...
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The big Democratic debate was missing one key thing
To the surprise of few, foreign policy wasn’t a central feature in last night’s Democratic debate.The CNN moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez focused on the two issues that...
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Here's the Russian jet that's terrorizing Syria's anti-Assad rebels
As the Syrian military begins its push to take back opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria, Russia has provided backing through an intensifying aerial campaign.Among the planes Moscow has used to...
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Syria's olive farmers are leading a resurgence in olive oil even as the...
War-torn Syria is leading a resurgence of global olive oil production in 2015, as growers fight against the odds to bottle a good harvest after a terrible year for the crop in 2014.The embattled Middle...
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Arab street artists put graffiti saying '"Homeland" is racist' on the latest...
On this past Sunday's episode of "Homeland," CIA agent Carrie Mathison travels to a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon to meet with a Hezbollah commander.During the scene, Mathison and her companion pass...
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Syrian troops and Russian jets are launching an offensive that could help...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, launched an attack on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday, Syrian state television and a group which...
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Map shows how the big Russia-Iran offensive in Syria is having a rough start
Key Takeaway: The Syrian regime has not gained much terrain in the first week of its large-scale ground offensive against rebel forces, despite support from intensified Russian airstrikes and hundreds...
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MAP: Russian airstrikes in Syria are helping ISIS and Assad
Key Takeaway: Russia’s involvement in Syria is facilitating ISIS’s territorial gains, while also strengthening Assad. Russia is supporting the Syrian regime’s offensives in Latakia, the al-Ghab Plain,...
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A Russian jet performed a visual inspection of a US plane over Syria
A Russian Su-30 conducted a visual identification (VID) intercept on a US aircraft over Syria.On Oct. 10, a Russian Su-30SM belonging to the contingent deployed to Latakia, Syria, had a close encounter...
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The Assad regime is launching a major Russian-backed offensive in northern Syria
BEIRUT – Syrian regime forces backed by Russian airstrikes have started yet another offensive, this time against rebels controlling a pocket of territory north of Homs.The Syrian Observatory for Human...
View ArticleA Canadian model went to Syria to fight ISIS
Former Canadian model Hanna Böhman is in Syria fighting ISIS.Part of the Kurdish YPJ, a female brigade that is part of the Kurdish coalition, the mother of one is on her second tour in the country. She...
View ArticleRussia's military is more advanced than people thought
Experts are saying that Russia's military is more advanced than everyone thought, and that Syria has allowed it to showcase its progress to the world.Russia has used a new aircraft that has never...
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Putin is already looking for an exit strategy in Syria
MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia's air campaign in Syria now in its third week, Vladimir Putin has raised his nation's global profile and proven its capability to project military power far from its...
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Sweden has a new plan to stop Middle Eastern migrants from coming to Europe
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats said on Thursday they would launch an advertising campaign in foreign media to discourage asylum-seekers from heading to the Nordic country,...
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The biggest sign yet that Russia is prepared for a long military operation in...
Russia's military operation in Syria isn't likely to be short, The New York Times reports. Along with already-positioned military hardware that includes tanks, aircraft, and ships off of Syria's coast,...
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China says a political solution is the only way out in Syria
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign minister has repeated his country's opposition to the use of force to resolve the crisis in Syria, saying that a political solution is still the only way out,...
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