The Guardian | US Syria policy in tatters after favoured 'moderate' rebels disband The Guardian Tension between Hazm and JAN – whose members have been bitter enemies for a long time – has been on the rise for months after Hazm sided with another FSA group, the Syria Revolutionary Front, when JAN was fighting that militia and expelled it from ... Syrian rebel group that got US aid dissolves US-Backed Rebel Group in Syria Disbands The UN envoy to Syria's disastrous failure |
The Guardian | Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change New York Times Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change, and that the drought was a factor in the violent ... Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim Climate change definitely contributed to the conflict in Syria Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war |
BBC News | Missing UK teens seen on video in Turkey before going to Syria CNN Authorities have said they have no reason to believe the girls are still in Turkey and believe they have crossed into neighboring Syria, parts of which have been taken over by Islamist terror group ISIS. The three east London classmates -- Shamima ... CCTV shows British schoolgirls in Istanbul on way to Syria: media Syria girls: CCTV shows UK teenagers at Istanbul bus station Footage spots UK girls in Turkey en route to Syria |
Reuters | US spy chief says 40 Americans who went to Syria have returned Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 180 Americans have traveled to Syria to join Islamist militants and around 40 of them have returned to the United States, the U.S. National Intelligence director, James Clapper, said on Monday. Clapper said not all those ... Rejoice: Intelligence chief claims Americans who fought in Syria are no threat ... Intel Chief: Roughly 40 Americans Have Returned from Syria ASU student travels to Syria for humanitarian efforts |
NPR (blog) | The Art Of Syrian Refugees Sends A Message. Is Anyone Listening? NPR (blog) When Syrian artist Mohammed Al-Amari, 27, fled the country's civil war last winter he couldn't carry much. Just some clothes, and little else, he says. But he did manage to bring some "colors" with him — watercolors, pastels and even a few of his ... |
Breitbart News | Syria: 19 Christians Have Been Released by the Islamic State, Local Leaders Say New York Times Nineteen of the Assyrian Christians seized by Islamic State militants last week in northeastern Syria have been freed, and they met with church officials in a cathedral in the city of Hasaka, local leaders said Sunday. Three of those freed were women ... Activists Say ISIS Releases 19 Syrian Christians Isis releases 19 of the Christians it kidnapped in Syria last week Assyrian Christians Demand Arms, Support to Fight ISIS as Hundreds Kidnapped |
The Hill | ANNE R. PIERCE: Beware ISIS strategy that fortifies Russia, Iran, and Syria Washington Times Although the President now highlights the brutality and aggression of the Islamic State, he still whitewashes the brutality and aggression of established states Syria, Russia and Iran, and still ignores the need for grand strategy to deal with them. Kerry: Syria 'a bigger challenge' than Iraq in terror fight THE LONE AMERCIAN VS. ISIS IN SYRIA: THE REAL RAMBO! |
Syria's Civil War Could Stabilize Its Region National Review Online Population shifts resulting from Syria's four-year long civil war have profoundly changed Syria and its three Arabic-speaking neighbors: Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan. (Turkey and Israel have changed too, but less so.) Ironically, amid tragedy and horror, ... |
RYOT | Mother recognised Mohammed Emwazi's voice on hostage videos BBC News They said he told them he was going to do humanitarian work in Syria. Meanwhile the Department for Education is to investigate schools with links to pupils who have travelled to Syria. Quintin Kynaston Academy in north-west London, where Emwazi had ... Jihadi John: Why are so many from Britain giving up everything to join a ... Newly Released Emails Suggest 'Jihadi John' Was Suicidal Before Heading to ... |
BBC News | Syria girls: CCTV shows students at Istanbul bus station BBC News CCTV images have emerged showing the three British teenage girls who are believed to have gone to Syria to join Islamic State. The footage shows them at an Istanbul bus station, waiting for a bus believed to have taken them to the Syrian border, which ... |