Syria News
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Sydney -
Canberra said Thursday there was a "high probability" a notorious Islamic State fighter from Australia and two of his children had been killed in a US airstrike in Syria.
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Ankara -
Iran's Armed Forces chief of staff said Wednesday after talks with Turkey's president that a referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdish region would trigger conflict and negative consequences for the entire region.
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Birut -
A Syrian rebel group said it shot down a government warplane on Tuesday and captured its pilot alive near a ceasefire zone in the war-ravaged country's south.
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The Islamic State group order that prompted Mahmud al-Ali to flee his town was simple: "All young men aged 20 to 30 years old must enlist to fight throughout Syria.
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Baghdad -
Despite the recapture of swathes of territory from the Islamic State group, the conflicts in Iraq and Syria are far from over as their governments face major political challenges, experts warn.
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Istanbul -
A charity has successfully transferred 13 animals to a new home in Jordan via Turkey from a neglected Syrian zoo, including a lioness who gave birth to a healthy cub just hours after arriving, it said Monday.
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Geneva -
A UN commission probing Syria rights abuses has gathered enough evidence to convict President Bashar al-Assad of war crimes, an outgoing member of the commission said in interviews published Sunday.
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Birut -
A commando operation backed by Russian warplanes and helicopters has killed 25 members of the Islamic State jihadist group in central Syria, a monitor said Sunday.
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Idlib -
On a bustling street in northwest Syria, young restaurateur Abdulrahim Abulezz serves up juicy chicken wraps crafted according to a traditional recipe from his hometown Daraya, which he left last year.
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New York -
The United Nations on Wednesday urged those fighting in Syria's Raqa to remember "obligations to protect civilians," voicing concern over the tens of thousands of people still trapped without access to aid.
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Sawsan Karapetyan and her family lived in fear for years as some of the only Christians in the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa. On Tuesday she fled, clutching her rosary.
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Duma -
In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling.
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Washington -
The US-led coalition campaign to destroy the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria enters its fourth year this week, and the Pentagon believes the jihadists' defeat is inevitable.On August 8, 2014 two FA-18 jets launched from the USS George W.
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New York -
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said a UN commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the panel.
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Damascus -
Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing.
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Geneva -
Veteran former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who is on a UN commission probing rights abuses in Syria, has said she intends to resign because the body "does absolutely nothing".
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Damascus -
Khalil Khoury dribbles a basketball deftly down the dilapidated gym where he and the rest of the Syrian national team train, passing it through his legs before a silky-smooth lay-up.
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Syria's army seized the last Islamic State group stronghold in the country's Homs province on Saturday, clearing their path to attack the jihadists in the country's east, a monitor said.
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Birut -
A ceasefire between government forces and rebels went into effect in part of central Syria on Thursday after Russia struck a deal with the opposition on a safe zone.
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Moscow -
Syrian regime forces and "moderate" rebels will cease fire in northern parts of Homs province on Thursday after Russia struck a deal with the opposition on implementing a third safe zone, Moscow said.
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Birut -
A prominent cyberactivist who was detained on the first anniversary of the 2011 uprising that sparked the Syrian civil war was secretly executed nearly two years ago, his widow said.
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Ankara -
Digital platforms can help refugee children to better assimilate into a new society, helping with language and education, and also in addressing the mental health issues that inevitably accompany the traumas of escape.
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New York -
George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says around 200,000 Syrian refugee children are out of education.
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Birut -
Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organisations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles.
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Istanbul -
A Turkish court arrested three soldiers allegedly filmed beating up and verbally abusing four young Syrians who attempted to cross the border illegally, state media reported Monday.
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Birut -
A region besieged by the regime forces east of Syria's capital on Sunday received UN aid for the first time in five years, a UN source said.
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Ak -
As Islamic State group fighters steadily lose chunks of their Syrian bastion Raqa to a US-backed force, the jihadists are ramping up the ferocity of their counter-attacks.
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Birut -
The Syrian army has reached the last jihadist-held town on the road to its besieged garrison in the east, a monitoring group said on Friday.
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Istanbul -
An international animal welfare charity was on Friday completing the evacuation of a dozen animals stranded in a neglected zoo in the conflict-torn Aleppo province of northern Syria.
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New York -
Nearly three months after Russia, Iran and Turkey reached a deal on de-escalating the war in Syria, hundreds of thousands of civilians have yet to receive desperately needed aid, a senior UN official said Thursday.
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Violence continues to sweep across Aleppo. Freedom House
A Syrian soldier aims an AK-47 assault rifle from his position in a foxhole during a firepower demonstration, part of Operation Desert Shield. The soldier is wearing a Soviet-made Model ShMS nuclear-biological-chemical warfare masks. Unknown author
US strikes in Syria launched from USS Ross 4 of 5, April 6, 2017. Photo: U.S. Navy
Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Syrian Opposition Coalition Chairman Ahmed Assi al-Jarba during the United Nations General Assembly at the Waldorf Astoria in New York September 24, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Joshua Lott
Don't Attack Iraq! Don't Attack Syria! Peace rally in Edmonton. October 25, 2014.
A map outlining where ISIS have control or influence in Syria and Iraq Independent.co.uk
Iraqi Chaldean Christians fleeing to neighboring Jordan. Wikicommons
Russian warship at Tartus naval facility some years ago. PressTV file photo
A Syrian refugee girl in a camp in Lebanon
Bus Attack in Syria Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
Don't Attack Iraq! Don't Attack Syria! Peace rally in Edmonton. October 25, 2014.
Free Syrian Arab Army liberating Helfaya, Hama FreedomHouse
Despite all the difficulty the Syrian people take care of themselves. Laundry day in Aleppo.
Pope Francis sent a tweet against war on Syria. Twitter screen
Internally displaced people, fleeing to safety from the civil war in Syria. The Epoch Times
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea launches a Tomahawk cruise missile to conduct strikes against the Islamic State as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in 2014. File photo: Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Garst/Navy
Free Syrian Army fighters in Idlib governorate. FreedomHouse2
A Syrian man comforts a boy amid the rubble of buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on February 4, 2016 Thaer Mohammed, AFP
Syrian boys walk to their tent at a refugee camp in Atmeh, Syria. Freedom House
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