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Britain pledges extra £1.2 billion for Syria before donor conference
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain pledged on Thursday to spend an additional 1.2 billion pounds ($1.75 billion) on aid for Syrians by 2020, seeking to build momentum for a donor conference that the United...
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Erdogan says Syria peace talks are pointless while Assad and Putin continue...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Syrian peace talks in Geneva, which were suspended on Wednesday, were pointless while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and Russia continued...
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Russia: There are a 'growing number of signs' that Turkey is preparing a...
MOSCOW — Russia has serious grounds to suspect Turkey of preparing for a military incursion in Syria, where Russian jets are bombing rebel and jihadi fighters, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor...
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TURKEY: Assad and Russia are trying to inflict another 'siege of starvation'...
LONDON (Reuters) - The humanitarian corridor between Turkey and Aleppo in Syria has been cut off as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces seek to inflict a siege of starvation on the city, Turkish...
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Saudi Arabia says it is willing to send ground troops to Syria to fight ISIS
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was ready to participate in any ground operations in Syria if the U.S.-led alliance decides to start such operations, an adviser to the Saudi defence minister said."The...
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‘Losing ground by the minute’: Syrian rebels are losing Aleppo — and perhaps...
Syrian rebels battled for their survival in and around Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Thursday after a blitz of Russian airstrikes helped government loyalists sever a vital supply route and sent a...
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Thousands flee as Russian-backed offensive threatens to besiege Aleppo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the city which once held two million people could soon...
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If Aleppo falls, Putin could get the military prize he’s been craving
Vladimir Putin thinks Russian air strikes in Syria have helped turn the war's tide but the pace of the Syrian army's advance has frustrated him, some sources say.If Aleppo falls, he could get the...
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Russia just helped the Assad regime accomplish 'in a few days what it had...
Over the past week, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seized several villages north of Aleppo, the country's largest city and one of the last remaining strongholds of Syria's non-jihadist...
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This one map shows how Russia and Iran have brought Assad within five miles...
Battlefield realities rather than great power politics will determine the ultimate terms of a settlement to end the Syrian Civil War.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies in Russia and Iran...
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Turkey: 'Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed’ in Syria
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed in Syria, arguing that Moscow and Damascus were together responsible for 400,000 deaths...
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13 of the biggest stories you may have missed this week
There's been no shortage of major stories to break this week. From China's president amassing unseen levels of power since Mao to the Syrian government's ongoing Russia-backed offensive, the news has...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's mother has died
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's mother, Anisa Makhlouf, has died at the age of 86, Syrian state media said on Saturday.Makhlouf, who married late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in 1957, rarely...
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This drone footage shows how one of Syria's largest cities has become a...
Chilling drone footage shows the terrible impact the devastating Syrian civil war has had on the city of Homs.Located in western Syria, Homs was a stronghold for groups opposed to the Assad regime and...
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Erdogan: Turkey to open its border to Syrian refugees 'if necessary'
Turkey is ready "if necessary" to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border after fleeing a regime assault, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Thousands of Syrians,...
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Syrian army advances towards Turkish border
Beirut (AFP) - Syrian government troops advanced Sunday toward a rebel town near the Turkish border as they pressed a Russian-backed offensive that has prompted tens of thousands to flee, a monitor...
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'The bodies are just blown to pieces’: Doctors are scrambling to treat the...
After five years of war, the doctor working in a Syrian border clinic thought he had seen everything. But with last week’s Russian bombing raids, there was still worse to come.The latest surge in...
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ISIS 'is not sustainable' — here's the latest sign the group is losing
Despite a rash of global terrorist attacks either directed or inspired by ISIS, the terrorist organization is quickly finding itself caught on its back foot. Between a series of battlefield defeats in...
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Massive and systematized violence: The UN released a horrifying report on...
In July 2014, a Syrian government defector, code-named Caesar, provided international investigators with startling evidence of abuses within the Assad regime's prison system.Caesar reported that more...
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Canada is going to stop bombing ISIS because Syrians ‘need our help – not our...
Canada is set to cease air strikes against Isis by the end of February but will increase its humanitarian aid contributions to the region instead.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was elected to...
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