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The failed cease-fire has just made things worse in Syria
The Obama administration is often criticized for its lack of action on Syria, but in some cases, doing nothing might be better than a cease-fire gone wrong.Hassan Hassan, a fellow at the Tahrir...
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Russia may be guilty of war crimes in Syria, according to Boris Johnson
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said Russia's actions in Syria may amount to war crimes if the country was involved in an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy near Aleppo. Johnson made...
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US: Russia's actions in Syria not counter-terrorism but 'barbarism'
The United States on Sunday called Russia's action in Syria "barbarism," not counter-terrorism, while Moscow's UN envoy said ending the war "is almost an impossible task now" as Syrian government...
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Iran admits conducting drone strikes in Syria
BEIRUT – A top Iranian military official has said that his country’s unmanned aerial vehicles are conducting airstrikes in Syria, months after Iranian TV aired a video appearing to show a combat drone...
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Hospitals overwhelmed by indiscriminate Syrian and Russian airstrikes in Aleppo
Medical supplies were running out in the besieged rebel-held sector of Aleppo, with victims pouring into barely functioning hospitals as an all-out Russian-backed assault entered its fourth day and...
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More than just 'sound and fury': Anger over Russian 'war crimes' in Syria is...
The US and Russia exchanged diplomatic jabs on Sunday night and into Monday over the Russia-backed Syrian government's latest scorched-earth offensive on rebel holdouts in the country's largest...
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Syrian forces have launched the 'biggest ground assault yet' to retake Aleppo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new military...
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Turkey is getting close to finishing its border wall with Syria
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official...
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Syrian rebels have received new rockets from foreign states as fighting rages...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Foreign states have given Syrian rebels surface-to-surface Grad rockets of a type not previously supplied to them in response to a major Russian-backed offensive in Aleppo, arebel...
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Rebel commander: Foreign states have given Syrian rebels a new type of rocket...
Foreign states have given Syrian rebels surface-to-surface Grad rockets of a type not previously supplied to them in response to a major Russian-backed offensive in Aleppo, a rebel commander told...
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John Kerry just threatened Russia over Syria — but Putin has no intention of...
US Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to suspend negotiations with Russia over Syria unless the Russian and Syrian aerial bombardment of the city of Aleppo ends, The Associated Press reported...
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Syrian warplanes bomb 2 hospitals, bread line in 'living nightmare' Aleppo
Government shelling and airstrikes in Syria's Aleppo landed near a bread distribution center and two hospitals Wednesday, killing seven people and putting at least one of the medical facilities...
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Russia says that the latest US statement on Syria is 'de facto support for...
Russia is outraged by the threatening tone of the latest U.S. statement on Syria, viewing it as tantamount to supporting terrorism, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday,...
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Russia says it will continue bombing campaign in Syria despite US threat to...
Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Thursday said it is pressing on with its bombing campaign in Syria despite the US warning it will end talks on the conflict if Moscow does not halt the assault on...
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Merkel and Erdogan say Russia has 'special responsibility' to calm Syria
Berlin (AFP) - Russia has a "special responsibility to calm violence and give a political process a chance" in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on...
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An Obama administration official painfully struggled to explain the 'Plan B'...
A senior Obama administration official stumbled Thursday when pressed on the US plan to deal with the crisis in Syria, appearing unable to provide details about what comes next after a failed...
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Russia is beefing up its air force in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has reinforced its air base in Syria with several bombers and is ready to send ground attack aircraft as it intensifies support for Syrian government troops after the collapse...
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Monitoring group: Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 9,000...
BEIRUT (AP) — A year of Russian airstrikes on areas outside government control in Syria have killed more than 9,000 people, displaced tens of thousands and caused wide destruction, an opposition...
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Pro-Assad militias have started fighting each other as tensions rise in Syria
BEIRUT – Pro-Assad militias have reportedly engaged in fighting against each other in Syria’s Deir Ezzor, where regime forces are encircled by ISIS.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported...
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