Syria
Syria accuses Israel of bombing Damascus Airport
Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport on Sunday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a ceasefire in its war-battered...
Assad: U.S.-led airstrikes having little impact on Islamic State
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Wednesday that U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Islamic State group militants in his country are neither...
Nazi war criminal likely died in Syria four years ago, says man who hunted him
A prominent Nazi hunter revealed that an SS war criminal responsible for the deaths of 128,500 Jews in WWII most likely died four years ago in Syria.
U.S. again rules out Syria no-fly zone
Washington ruled out Monday any imminent plans to create a no-fly zone along the Turkey-Syria border, brushing aside reports that U.S.
United Nations WFP runs out of money to feed 1.7m Syrian refugees
A lack of funds has forced the United Nations World Food Programme to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon,...
CBC, NHL websites briefly affected by Syrian Electronic Army hack
A group of politically-motivated hackers operating under the name the Syrian Electronic Army briefly defaced the websites of the CBC, the NHL and a number...
UN: 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria
About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter...
13.6 million displaced by conflicts in Iraq and Syria: UN refugee agency
About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter...
Dual strikes on suspected IS hotspots in Syria and Iraq kill more than 71
Coalition airstrikes have targeted a gathering of Islamic State (IS) leaders at a house in northern Iraq, a US defence official has said.
Syria’s wealthy find fun despite bomb blasts and threats of violence
Amid a conflict lapping at the edge of Damascus, Syria’s wealthy spend their time in cafes and at parties, strolling a gleaming new mall and enjoying...
Syria’s Alawites pay heavy price as they bury sons
The posters of slain Syrian soldiers, put up by families to commemorate their sons killed in the fight against rebels, are plastered on walls throughout...
U.N. warns purely military response in Syria could fuel extremism
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that a solely military response to the threat of Islamic State in Syria could fuel the radicalization...
Syrian Kurds press hundreds of young men into army
Police in Syria’s beleaguered self-ruled Kurdish areas have rounded up hundreds of young men to press them into military service recently made compulsory,...
Kurdish woman suicide bomber attacks IS militants in Syria: monitor
A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane...
UK parents of missing ‘Syria-bound’ girl make emotional plea for return
The parents of a UK schoolgirl who is thought to have fled to Syria after becoming radicalised have appealed for her to return.
White House exempts Syria air strikes from tight standards on civilian deaths
The White House has for the first time acknowledged that strict standards President Barack Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S.
Obama admits anti-IS campaign is helping Syrian President
President Barack Obama is acknowledging that the United States-led military campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s affiliate in...
Amid airstrikes, IS intensifies fight for key town on Turkish border
Despite fresh U.S.-led air strikes and now British warplanes over head, Islamic State (IS) fighters continued their assault on the strategic Syrian town...
Islamic State seizes 21 villages in Syria and closes in on Kurdish city
Islamic State fighters encircled a Kurdish city in northern Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday after seizing 21 villages in a major assault...
Vaccination campaign halted in northern Syria after 15-50 children die
A badly mixed measles vaccine killed between at least 15 to 50 children on Tuesday in northern Syria and caused officials to halt the vaccination campaign.
U.S. House warily approves arms for Syrian rebels as Iraq rejects troop possibility
The Republican-controlled House voted grudgingly to give the administration authority to train and arm Syrian rebels on Wednesday.
In Syria’s ancient Aleppo, school is a basement under fire
Back to school for children in the rebel-held part of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo can mean having to cower in classes underground, sheltering...
Syria ‘likely to have used chlorine gas in attacks’, claims weapons watchdog
Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog have found “compelling evidence” that chlorine gas was used “systematically and...
Bombing kills leaders of Syrian rebel group
The leader of an ultraconservative Islamic rebel group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a suicide bombing along with other of its top officials, its allies...
'No strategy yet': Obama cools talks of strikes against Islamic State in Syria
The U.S. is already striking Islamic State (also known as ISIL and ISIS) targets in Iraq, and U.S.
Syria used chemical weapons eight times, UN report says
The United Nations has said it believes the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in civilian areas eight times in April.
Obama likely to hit ISIL in Syria without Congress’s formal OK
President Barack Obama is unlikely to ask either for a formal green light to expand the American air war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
Eyes in the sky: Obama authorises surveillance over Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama has authorised surveillance flights over Syria, two officials said late Monday.
Syria says ‘ready to cooperate,’ even with U.S., against ISIL jihadists
The UN Monday accused jihadists in Iraq of waging a campaign of “ethnic and religious cleansing”, as Syria said it was ready to work with the...
U.S. journalist held 2 years in Syria released as UK hunts for Foley’s killer
Kidnappers in Syria have freed an American writer missing since 2012, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, following what Qatari-owned TV station...
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