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Turkey and Russia agree on demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib
The leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed Monday to establish a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib region, the last major stronghold of anti-government rebels where fears had been running high of a devastating offensive by government forces. The zone will be established by Oct. 15 ...
Syria is sharply criticizing an upcoming event on the U.N. investigative body that is helping to document serious crimes during the seven-year Syrian conflict, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, said in a letter to General Assembly President ...
Syrian government and Russian warplanes on Saturday targeted the southern edge of Idlib province with an intense wave of airstrikes and shelling, activists and a war monitoring group said, ratcheting up the military pressure on the densely populated rebel-held bastion. The intense air raids came ...
UNICEF warns 1 million Syrian children are at risk if Idlib assault happens
More than a million Syrian children are at risk in the event of a government military assault on the rebel-held province of Idlib, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday. Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's director of emergency programs, said that the agency has drawn up ...
Syrian opposition fighters blew up bridges Friday and dug trenches around their bases to impede an anticipated ground offensive on their last major stronghold in the country. They also called on residents to take up arms and support front-line fighters. The looming battle for Idlib ...
In a corner of northwestern Syria packed with nearly 3 million people, the government and its opponents are preparing for a final, bloody showdown. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition's only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over a million displaced ...
Standoff over Syria: U.S. and Russia trade chemical weapons warnings
The U.S. and Russia exchanged warnings about a possible chemical attack in Syria and a Western military intervention in response, on the eve of what may be one of the decisive campaigns in the Middle Eastern country's civil war. Tensions between the nuclear powers flared ...
Osaka student fights for Syrians' right to study in safety in Japan
When Yahya Almasri heard Japan had closed the door on other students fleeing war, he decided he had to do something.
Chemical weapons watchdog finds 'chlorinated chemicals' in Douma, site of attack by Syrian regime
A preliminary report by the world's chemical weapons watchdog says "various chlorinated chemicals" were found at the site of an April attack in Douma, Syria, that killed dozens of civilians and prompted airstrikes by Britain, France and the United States. The Organisation for the Prohibition ...
Defying the United States, Assad presses assault in southwest Syria
Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar Assad halt the assault. Assad has sworn to ...
Syrian state media said Monday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed "one of our military positions" in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and injuries, but the U.S. military denied carrying out strikes in the area. The strike took place in al-Harra, southeast of Albu Kamal, ...
Pair whose teen graffiti lit Syrian war brace for regime attack on hometown
"Your turn, doctor." Seven years after scribbling the anti-Assad slogan that sparked Syria's war, activists-turned-rebels Moawiya Sayasina and Samer Sayasina are bracing for a regime assault on their hometown, Daraa. They were just 15 when they and friends, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions they ...
