Yahoo News | The refugee tragedy in Austria shows the range of Syria's civil war Washington Post Reports suggest that the majority of the 71 people who died of suffocation inside a truck found this week in Austria were refugees from Syria. If confirmed, the grisly incident would be yet another bloody episode in Syria's brutal civil war. The ... Syrians fear for relatives after Austrian migrant tragedy Three people in custody in Hungary over death of 71 Syrian migrants in truck Austrian police: Bodies found in truck likely of Syrian refugees |
Voice of America | Analysis: Syria War Is Growing Threat to Israel Voice of America Israeli missiles launched into Syria last week, in addition to reports of major military training operations in Israel, raised questions about whether or not it was planning on more direct involvement in the Syria war, according to Jordan-based ... |
Washington Times | Russia emerges as key player in new round of Syria diplomacy Washington Times Moscow is increasingly emerging as a center of diplomacy on Syria's four-year-old civil war, with the Obama administration sending a key emissary to the Russian capital discuss the conflict on Friday, following recent visits by high-level Saudi ... Readout of US Special Envoy for Syria Michael Ratney's Trip to Moscow U.S. envoy for Syria meets with Russian officials in Moscow US Envoy For Syria Holds Talks In Moscow |
BuzzFeed News | People Found This Syrian Man After His Photo Went Viral And Raised $50000 In ... BuzzFeed News Yarmouk is a mostly Palestinian refugee camp near the Syrian capital of Damascus that has played host to nearly 150,000 refugees since it was established in 1957. For months during the country's ongoing civil war, the camp was under siege, receiving ... #BuyPens: Fund for Syria Refugee Abdul Reaches $58K in 22 Hours Web campaign raises US$67800 for Syria refugee family in a day Viral Photo Of Syrian Refugee Prompts Strangers To Give Him 'A New Life' |
U.S. News & World Report | Syrian Shiites Take Up Arms in Support of Assad's Army U.S. News & World Report In the four years since the start of the civil war in Syria, Shiite groups have been fighting militant Salafists alongside the Syrian army. The most prominent of these groups is the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, whose presence has had a direct impact on ... |
The Daily Star | Aid-starved Syria refugees desert Mideast The Daily Star AMMAN: After escaping a devastating war, frustrated Syrian refugees in aid-starved neighboring states say they must now choose between joining an exodus to Europe or “returning home to die.” Millions of Syrians have found shelter in surrounding ... Syrian conflict: The lives of the refugees who fled Syria refugee numbers approach 20 per cent of pre-war population Aid-starved Syria refugees desert Mideast for Europe |
The Australian | Fight to save Iraq, via Syria The Australian Abbott's willingness to strike in Syria now may be contrasted with his reluctance when first elected Prime Minister, when he famously, and accurately, said the conflict in Syria was not so much one of “goodies versus baddies” but “baddies versus baddies”. PM eager to extend mission to Syria US, allies conduct 20 air strikes in Syria, Iraq: military Syria combat missions: Kevin Andrews calls for more detail on protecting pilots |
ABC News | Senior ISIS Member Killed by Drone Strike Inside Syria ABC News The U.S. military says it had killed Junaid Hussain, a senior ISIS recruiter and cyber specialist during a drone strike in Syria. Hussain's death was confirmed in a tweet from Brett McGurk, the Deputy Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition ... Pentagon confirms militant killed in US air strike in Syria was recruiter IS British Hacker Killed in US Airstrike in Syria |
Christian Science Monitor | Young Syrian migrant's navigational tool: 'I follow the trash' Christian Science Monitor To ensure constant access to information, the young man, who declined to give his surname for fear of endangering the lives of relatives still stuck in Syria, carries a state-of-the-art mobile phone charger in his fanny pack. He has had it ever since ... Syrian migrant girl gets hair tangled in barbed wire while scrambling into Hungary Germany opens its gates: Berlin says all Syrian asylum-seekers are welcome to ... |
The Interpreter | Weekend catch-up: Monuments in Syria, Australian aid, flying in China ... The Interpreter As Ross Burns said in the introduction to his piece on The Interpreter this week, the brutal execution of Syrian archaeologist Khaled al Asad and the destruction of the Temple of Baalshamin by ISIS seem to have caught the worlds attention. Ross runs a ... |