UN News Centre | The Guardian view on the UN talks on Syria: a waiting game while the country ... The Guardian It may have escaped notice but peace talks about Syria are once again under way. The United Nations, which is organising and directing them from Geneva, has avoided the title Geneva III. That is understandable, given that the first two big and much ... In Geneva, UN envoy on Syria meets with international stakeholders amid ... US, Russia Discuss Joint Efforts on Political Transition in Syria Russian-American special consultations on Syria to be held in Moscow |
New York Times | Hezbollah Deploys Weapon, a Press Tour, on the Syrian Front New York Times QALAMOUN MOUNTAINS, Syria — A powerfully built officer in wraparound sunglasses and digital-print camouflage gave a detailed tactical briefing, propping a map up against a juniper tree and pointing to red circles that he said showed leftover ... Hezbollah making gains on Lebanon-Syria border: Nasrallah Hezbollah, Syrian army kill 10 militants in fresh Qalamoun clashes Hezbollah leader says extremists losing ground in Syria |
Town Hall | Confirmed: Weapons Were Moving Through Benghazi to Syria Town Hall When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifeid in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January 2013, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul asked if weapons were being trafficked from Libya, through Benghazi and to Turkey. Paul: Is the U.S. ... Benghazi | Disclosure could have a ripple effect on the 2016 election |
Wall Street Journal | US raid in Syria supported by secret Stealth Black Hawk helicopters? The Aviationist (blog) According to some sources, the evasive MH-X may have taken part in the raid that killed Islamic State member Abu Sayyaf. In the night between May 15 and 16, U.S. Special Operations forces killed ISIS high level operative Abu Sayyaf, in a daring raid ... US Forces Seize Digital Trove in Syria Raid After Syria Raid, FBI Questions ISIS Wife And Yazidi Slave Abu Sayyaf, key ISIS figure in Syria, killed in US raid |
Reuters | Syrian insurgents battle army around military base in Idlib Reuters The Mastouma base is one of the last major army strongholds in a province controlled by a range of insurgent groups including al Qaeda's Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham movement, fighting to overthrow President Bashar ... Syria rebels battle army around military base in Idlib President Assad calls for stronger Syria-Iran economic ties In Syria: Insurgents battle army around military base in Idlib |
BBC News | Palmyra: Will ISIS bulldoze ancient Syrian city? CNN This time it is the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating back 2,000 years. Syrian government troops have reportedly been fighting to contain ISIS fighters after they launched an attack Wednesday on Tadmur, the ... Syria conflict: IS 'withdraws' from ancient Palmyra Islamic State dead in US Syria raid climbs to 32: monitoring group ISIS rockets kill 5 in Syria's Palmyra: activists |
Syria's First Responders Say They Need a No-Fly Zone, But No One Listens VICE News Last Wednesday, Raed Saleh, the head of Syria's "White Helmets," a volunteer civil defense search and rescue corp that responds to victims of the country's four year civil war, met privately with EU diplomats and United Nations representatives ... |
The Independent | Danish jihadists in Syria have collected 400000 kroner in unemployment benefit The Independent “STAR has thus far received information pertaining to 32 people who, according to PET's information, have gone abroad in relation to the conflict in Syria while at the same time receiving social benefits in the form of kontanthjælp and dagpenge [two ... Danish Jihadists Live Lavishly in Syria as Copenhagen Picks up Tab |
Haaretz | ISIS now controls a supply route from Syria's largest city to Iraq's capital Business Insider “The road between Syria and Ramadi is open, so they can always send more fighters to Ramadi.” This open road simultaneously gives a moral boost to ISIS by lending credence to their statement of an ever expanding caliphate while also providing the ... Forget Ramadi, the real battle is in Syria IS jihadists take Ramadi but pinned back in Palmyra US says raid in Syria kills key extremist |
CNN | Obama says Syria war unlikely to end during his presidency CNN Asked by interviewer Nadia Bilbassy on Friday whether Syria could become the equivalent of Rwanda -- where Hutu extremists, unabated by western intervention, slaughtered almost 1 million people in 1994 -- Obama defended his decision to forgo airstrikes. |