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How Texas explains Assad's strategy in Syria
Imagine a war raging in central Texas, stretching eastward.San Antonio lies in the southwest of our fictional battlefield, Austin is 80 miles to the north, and Dallas sits 200 miles farther along the...
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SYRIA: A truce will begin at sundown on Monday after dozens were killed over...
Beirut (AFP) - A ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia and the United States is due to begin at sundown Monday, after scores of civilians were killed in a bloody weekend of strikes.The truce, announced...
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US and Russia agree on ceasefire, but Assad promises to continue fighting...
An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Monday to take back all of Syria, hours before the start of a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia, which Assad's opponents described as...
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Syrian ceasefire brokered by US and Russia goes into effect
Syria's army says it has begun implementing a US-Russian cease-fire, but the country's most powerful insurgent groups have not yet said whether they will abide by it.The Syrian government and its main...
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The US and Russia's Syrian ceasefire may be crumbling before it even begins
Two major players in Syria have signaled their intention not to cooperate just 48 hours after the US signed a ceasefire deal with Russia.US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the ceasefire deal...
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Kerry: The cease-fire may be the 'last chance to save a united Syria' — but...
Secretary of State John Kerry warned that the cease-fire deal brokered by the US and Russia "may be the last chance we have to save a united Syria,"CNN reported on Monday, hours after the truce...
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A ceasefire in Syria could be a crucial means for Russia to expand power in...
A new “cessation of hostilities” is beginning in Syria, with the US and Russia preparing to co-ordinate air strikes against militant jihadist factions.If the temporary ceasefire holds for the intended...
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Israel says the Syrian army fired missiles at its jets but denies claim that...
Israel has denied claims by the Syrian army that it downed an Israeli plane and drone on Tuesday, Reuters reports.Earlier on Tuesday, Israel had struck the Syrian military after stray mortar fire hit...
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'What's the alternative?': Kerry defends Syria deal with Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday sought to diffuse criticism of a U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement on Syria arguing that without it violence would increase...
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Russia: Syrian moderate opposition needs to separate from 'terrorists'
BEIRUT (AP) — Russia said Wednesday that separating Syrian rebels from 'terrorists' is a "key task" to ensure that the Russia-U.S.-brokered cease-fire continues to hold in Syria, where a relative calm...
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A confrontation between Turkey and the US's main Syrian partner is likely
Turkish troops and special forces, backed by allied Syrian rebel groups, launched on August 24 the Euphrates Shield operation to liberate the strategic Syrian city of Jarablus on the border with Turkey...
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The Syrian cease-fire could have a victor the US didn't intend
The cease-fire in Syria brokered by the US and Russia has temporarily put a stop to fighting in some parts of the war-torn country, but it could have unintended consequences that end up working in...
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The Syria ceasefire deal is hanging in the balance
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and rebels had yet to withdraw from a road needed to deliver aid to the city of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening the most serious international...
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How Russia plans to imitate US naval power with its aircraft carrier...
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the US should be flattered that Russia plans to deploy their only aircraft carrier, the 26 year-old Admiral Kuznetsov, off Syria's coast for its...
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The Syria ceasefire is growing even more fragile
Aid for the divided Syrian city of Aleppo was stuck on the Turkish border on the fifth day of a fragile ceasefire on Friday with rival factions arguing over how the supplies are to be delivered and...
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Israel's Iron Dome shoots down stray 'projectile' fired from Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system on Saturday shot down a stray "projectile" fired during fighting in Syria's civil war, Israel's military said.There has been frequent...
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Officials confirm that a US-led air strike killed Syrian troops
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman says 62 Syrian soldiers have been reported killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a military base.The US Central Command released a statement confirming the...
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The UN is holding an emergency meeting after a US-led air strike killed...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and...
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Russia criticizes US response to an airstrike that killed more than 60 Syrian...
Russia's Foreign Ministry is sharply criticizing the United States as being obstructive and deceptive regarding the airstrike by coalition warplanes on a Syrian military position that killed more than...
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Assad might have hidden some of Syria’s deadliest chemical weapons
When Syria disclosed its long-secret chemical weapons program in December 2013, it presented international weapons inspectors with a hard-to-swallow story: One of the regime’s premier chemical weapons...
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