The Unimaginable Crisis In Syria In One Sentence About New York City
Anne Barnard of The New York Times has published a stirring, dark piece about the free fall that is Syria after three years of relentless civil war.One sentence will put in perspective for many:...
View ArticleSyria Creates 'Syrian Space Agency' Amid Civil War Destroying The Country
Three years into its bloody, unending civil war, the Syrian government has decided to approve the creation of a space agency "with the goal of using space technology for exploration and observing the...
View ArticleTurkey Shoots Down A Syrian Warplane
Turkish anti-aircraft fire shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday as it bombed rebels fighting to seize control of a border post in northwestern Syria."Turkish air defences targeted a Syrian fighter...
View ArticleThis Is The Ottoman Tomb That Turkish Officials Discussed Entering Syria To...
The latest leak against the government of Turkish Prime Miniter Tayyip Erdogan involves a high-level discussion about possible military operations in Syria to secure the tomb of a Turkish icon.The...
View ArticleOBAMA: US Military Strikes Would Not Have Helped In Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could not have stopped the humanitarian crisis in Syria with military strikes, President Barack Obama said in a television interview airing on Friday, and said...
View ArticleHere's What It's Like Being On The Receiving End Of A MiG-29 Fulcrum's Gun...
If you see a Mig-29 Fulcrum maneuvering towards you at low altitude, you better run away.Filmed somewhere is Syria by someone who probably survived the attack, the following footage shows a Syrian Arab...
View ArticleApocalyptic Prophecies Drive Both Sides To Syrian Battle For End Of Time
Conflict in Syria kills hundreds of thousands of people and spreads unrest across the Middle East. Iranian forces battle anti-Shi'ite fighters in Damascus, and the region braces for an ultimate...
View ArticleThese Charts Of Syrian Refugees Flooding Into Lebanon Are Stunning
The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has broken 1 million people today, according to a UN Refugee Agency report.The number of refugees has increased exponentially during the three years of the...
View ArticleThis Haunting Photo Of A Stunned Syrian Girl Embodies Assad's Strategy
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in the midst of an unprecedented bombing campaign in Syria's largest city of Aleppo. For the last four months, Syrian military helicopters have been...
View ArticleHezbollah Chief Says Syria's Assad No Longer At Risk Of Being Overthrown
Syria's regime is no longer in danger of being toppled and the risk of the country being divided has passed, the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said in remarks published Monday.Hassan Nasrallah's comments...
View Article7 Terrible Armed Conflicts The World Has Failed To Stop Since Rwanda
For those who lived through the genocide in Rwanda, the mass killings were an indescribable horror. For those who watched from afar, it was an international shame.The world stood idle as an estimated...
View ArticleUS Army Veteran Who Fought Alongside Syrian Rebels Has Died In Arizona
The Army veteran who fought alongside rebels in Syria, only to be later accused of joining Al Qaeda-linked terrorists by the U.S., has died in Arizona of unknown causes, his family told ABC News.Eric...
View ArticleIranian UAV Spotted Over Syria Could Be A Heavily Modified US Drone
New screenshots coming from Syria give a better view of the Shahed 129 spotted over Damascus on April 10.Such photos show that the version used by the Syrian Armed Forces is observably different from...
View ArticleThere's A Fragile Peace In Lebanon — And You'd Better Hope That It Holds
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - For two weeks now, the rifles have been silent along Syria Street in Lebanon's Tripoli, an area shot up so often that even memorial posters of men killed just a few months...
View ArticleSyrian Opposition Claims It Has Evidence Linking Assad Forces To Recent...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists have posted photographs and video that they say shows an improvised chlorine bomb to back up claims that President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Are Being Armed With US-Made Anti-Tank Missiles
Some Syrian rebel groups are being armed with advanced American-made antitank missiles in a test run to judge whether the arms end up in the hands of extremist groups in the region, The Wall Street...
View ArticleGOP SENATOR: 'The Wisest Thing Assad Did Really Was To Kill 1,200 People With...
Both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin are following a similar procedure that allows them to stretch the boundaries of legality without worrying about consequences...
View ArticleSyria's Deadly Chlorine Gas Wasn't Included On Chemical Weapons Ban
Chlorine gas attacks in Syria this month, if proven, expose a major loophole in an international deal which promised to remove chemical weapons from Syria and suggest chemical warfare could persist...
View ArticleBarack Obama Explains His Foreign Policy In Five Sentences
"That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention, and it doesn’t make for good argument on Sunday morning shows. But it avoids errors. You hit singles, you hit doubles;...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Offshoot Crucifies Two Men In Syria
The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion.ISIL, which has been disavowed...
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