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Netanyahu says refugee crisis the ‘worst crimes humanity has seen since Holocaust’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Europe’s refugee crisis is a result of militant Islam in the Middle East which he says sees people...
More than 4 million refugees have now fled Syria, U.N. says
More than 4 million Syrians have fled abroad since the 2011 outbreak of civil war, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the United Nations...
Humanitarian crisis as 4 million Syrian refugees flee to neighbouring countries
The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N.
Syrian rebels ‘capture army base in south’ in fresh blow for President Assad
Syrian rebels said they had captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, a setback that would increase pressure on...
U.S. leads strikes on IS after group seizes 220 Assyrian Christians
The raids struck areas around the town of Tal Tamr in the Hasakeh province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, without giving information on...
U.S.-led strikes on IS after group seizes 220 Assyrian Christians
The U.S.-led coalition carried out air strikes Thursday against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, where the jihadists have launched a new...
For Syria’s Assad, war enters new year more fragmented than ever
Deep into its fourth year of conflict, Syria looks less and less like a state than a patchwork of warring fiefdoms, making outside powers more reluctant...
Countries pledge to resettle more than 100,000 Syrian refugees: U.N.
Countries have more than doubled the number of Syrian refugees they are willing to resettle to over 100,000, the head of the U.N.
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...
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,...
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.
United Kingdom had plans to train and equip 100,000 Syrian rebels: BBC
Britain had planned to train and equip a 100,000-strong rebel army to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad according to a report by the BBC.
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