China Closely Follows Syria’s Humanitarian Situation, Says President
China Closely Follows Syria’s Humanitarian Situation, Says President Posted 2014-06-06 01:44 GMT BEIJING (Xinhua) — China is following closely Syria’s humanitarian situation and will provide additional...
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Months of Bombings Leave Syria’s Aleppo in Ruins
A tank belonging to the rebels’ Islamic Front is in the middle of a street during reported clashes with government forces in the Hanano district of the northern city of Aleppo on April 17, 2014 (Photo:...
View ArticleUS begins to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons
The US container ship Cape Ray has started to neutralise chemical materials that were once part of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s weapons arsenal, the US Defence Department has said. The ship,...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into the World of Syria’s Assyrian Fighters
Syriac [Assyrian] Christians are generally considered to fear Islamic rebels and therefore unconditionally back Assad’s regime, but this is not the case in the predominantly Kurdish autonomous cantons...
View ArticleSyria’s Western-backed Opposition Elects New President
[unable to retrieve full-text content](Reuters) — Syria’s Western-backed opposition, the National Coalition, elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president on...
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Emergency Support for Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Damage to the Eastern Hall of the Ma’arra Museum, Idlib Province, Syria (photo: Ali Othman and the Ma’arra Museum).In addition to the high toll that Syria’s four-year-old civil war has had on its...
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Refugee Crisis: The Stunning Collapse of Syria’s Safe Spaces
The number of Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) already rivals the scale of the displaced in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia, which have endured much longer-running...
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How Western Aid Bungled Syria’s Opposition & Paved the Way for ISIS
The incompetence of some Western-backed Syrian opposition councils has created openings for more radical actors. (Photo: U.S. Mission Geneva / Flickr) The takeover of large swaths of Iraq and Syria by...
View ArticleSyria’s Christians Under Threat
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The wildfire victories of the Islamic State (IS, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in northern Iraq and Syria have left the area’s minorities under...
View ArticleClashes rage over Syria’s Tabqa air base
Islamic State fighters and Syrian regime troops have clashed in fierce battles that reportedly cost hundreds of lives over the Tabqa military air base, the last stronghold of the Syrian army in Raqqa...
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Academics and Archaeologists Fight to Save Syria’s Artifacts
Syrian rebel fighters in a damaged section of the Umayyad Mosque, a Unesco world heritage site in Aleppo that has been heavily damaged in fighting (photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse/Getty...
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Syria’s Foreign Jihadis: Where Do They Come From?
Syria’s Foreign Jihadis: Where Do They Come From? By Richard Allen Greene and Inez Torre Posted 2014-09-02 21:35 GMT (CNN) — At least two Americans have been killed in Syria, and the video of James...
View ArticleSyria’s Ever-Growing Number Of Wars
When Syria’s unrest began in the spring of 2011 with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government, nobody could have guessed Syria would turn into a battlefield for multiple wars....
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Islamic State Militants Attack Syria’s Qamishli, Casualties Reported
Damage of a residential building in Qamishli caused by IS-led attack with mortar fire on Sunday, September 14, 2014.Qamishli, Syria — On Sunday, Islamic State’s (IS/ISIL) militants fighters launched an...
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How an Ancient Tomb is a Fault Line in Syria’s Brutal Civil War
An image from the 1920s of the tomb of Suleyman Shah (Wikimedia Commons).At some point in 1236, the Turkic warlord Suleyman Shah perished by the banks of the Euphrates river. Some say he drowned in its...
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Turkey and Syria’s Kurds
A senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a rebel group that has been fighting for Kurdish self-rule inside Turkey since 1984, declared on September 21st that the Ankara government had...
View ArticleThirty Kurdish Fighters Killed in Suicide Bombs in Syria’s Hasakah
[unable to retrieve full-text content]BEIRUT (Reuters) — At least 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks on two checkpoints run by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah on...
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The Destruction of Syria’s Christian Treasures
By Alfred S. Regnery The Islamists continue a crusade to erase all traces of the religious beliefs of others The Islamist extremist destruction of historical treasures in the Middle East is nothing...
View ArticleBattle rages for control of Syria’s Kobane
Battles have continued to rage on along Turkey’s border between the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) fighters and Syrian Kurds as anti-ISIL coalition’s military chiefs prepare to meet in...
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