U.S. News & World Report | Deadly attacks ahead of Iran foreign minister's Syria visit U.S. News & World Report In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Zarif, who negotiated his country's nuclear ... Deadly attacks surge as Iran's foreign minister visits Syria |
BBC News | Syria conflict: Two-day ceasefires begin in three towns BBC News Forty-eight-hour ceasefires between Syrian rebels and pro-government forces have reportedly begun in three towns. The truces will allow food and medical supplies to be delivered to the rebel stronghold of Zabadani, on the border with Lebanon, and to ... Iranian-Brokered Truces Start in Three Syrian Towns Turkey, Iran help broker rare truce in Syria Truce between Hezbollah fighters, militants starts in Syria |
Deutsche Welle | Jeb Bush blames Clinton, Obama for Iraq's problems CNN Simi Valley, California (CNN) Jeb Bush, laying out his strategy to combat ISIS on Tuesday, called for establishing a no-fly zone over Syria, defeating President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and embedding U.S. troops with Iraqi forces, all the while ... US, allies conduct 19 air strikes in Syria, Iraq: US military Bush remarks on Syria and 'Islamic State' well thought out, says policy expert Jeb Bush talks ISIS, Syria, and Clinton in foreign policy speech |
Sydney Morning Herald | Australia should expand role to Syria: MP 9news.com.au The head of parliament's intelligence and security committee believes Australia should launch air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. In a sign the government is considering escalating the role of Australian forces in the Middle East ... Australia in talks to expand bombing raids against Islamic State into Syria Push for Aussie warplanes to start bombing jihadis in Syria Labor warns it would be 'very dangerous' to start bombing Islamic State in Syria |
Arutz Sheva | UN statement on Syria political transition delayed by Venezuela objections Minneapolis Star Tribune The draft council statement demands that all parties in Syria "work urgently" toward fully implementing the roadmap to peace adopted by key nations in Geneva in June 2012. It calls for the formation of a transitional government with full executive ... UN Statement on Syria Delayed Over Venezuela Objections Venezuela Delays UN Resolution on Syria |
The Guardian | Defeating Isis in Syria is essential to prevent catastrophe The Guardian Islamic State (Isis) is the catastrophic consequence of political illegitimacy in Iraq and Syria. In Iraq, the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, created a governance vacuum. With the unflagging support of Iran, he disenfranchised and alienated Sunni ... The Syrian Catastrophe and the World's Deafening Silence The New Great Game Andrew J. Tabler Obama's Syrian Rebel Force Goes AWOL and MIA |
New York Times | New Diplomacy Seen on US-Russian Efforts to End Syrian Civil War New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — With President Bashar al-Assad of Syria facing battlefield setbacks, diplomats from Russia, the United States and several Middle Eastern powers are engaged in a burst of diplomatic activity, trying to head off a deeper collapse of ... Is Russia's Outreach on Syria a Bid to Distract From Ukraine? Syria opposition heads for Russia cold on anti-IS Assad coalition Russia Hosts Talks With Syrian Opposition, Signals Possible Shift |
Here And Now | Syria regime air strikes, rebel fire on Damascus kill at least 50 ABC Online At least 37 civilians have been killed in Syrian government air strikes near Damascus, while up to 13 other people have been killed after rebels fired a barrage of rockets into the capital, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... Strange Bedfellows Emerge In ISIS Fight In Syria Syria regime air raids, rebel fire on Damascus kill 50 Syria's forgotten victims: the seige of Eastern Ghouta |
The Guardian | US warplanes launch first air strikes against Isis targets in Syria The Guardian Turkish officials have indicated a major priority will be the establishment of a safe zone inside Syria free of Isis jihadists where some of the 1.8 million Syrian refugees Turkey is hosting could be housed. But Washington has yet to express clear ... Turkey PM: Syria no-fly zone needed No IS-free zone? US denies reaching agreement with Turkey on Syria 'safe zone' US jets launch first anti-IS Syria strikes from Turkey |
Irish Times | Travel writer, Syria: 'Most of this is a war zone now, the medieval souk ... Irish Times The small minibus rattled from Turkish holy town Urfa to the hot and grimy border town separating me from Tel Abyad, my first stop in Syria. Worried texts from home (it was March 2011) warned of the increasing volatility in Syria and entreated me to ... |