Politico | US fears a clash with Russia over Syria Politico Four years into Syria's civil war and more than a year into a U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group, the U.S. military now faces a new, potentially far more dangerous prospect: backing the opposite side of the Russian Air ... Who Is Fighting Whom in Syria Obama administration scrambles as Russia attempts to seize initiative in Syria Syria crisis: Russia and US military to hold talks on air strikes |
New York Times | Refugee Crisis in Europe Prompts Western Engagement in Syria New York Times UNITED NATIONS — Over the last four years, as four million Syrian refugees poured into neighboring countries and slipped inexorably into poverty, António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said he had pleaded in vain with ... Sen. Peters: Triple Syrian refugees accepted into US |
The New Yorker | Will Iran Coöperate on Syria? The New Yorker For the first time, however, the President also held out the prospect of including Iran in a potential solution to Syria's catastrophic four-year war. “While military power is necessary, it is not sufficient to resolve the situation in Syria,” Obama ... |
Newsweek | Waging the Tangled Air War Over Syria and Iraq Newsweek The flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is pictured in the Gulf, June 18. The carrier is deployed in the region to act as a platform to strike key positions taken over by ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to the ship's ... |
TIME | Trump Says He'll Send Refugees Back to Syria If Elected TIME Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that if elected to the White House, he will send Syrian refugees back to their homeland. At a one-hour rally in Keene, New Hampshire, Trump pulled no punches. “I'm putting the people here on ... Trump: I will send Syrian refugees home In New Hampshire, Donald Trump Puts Syrian Refugees 'on Notice' |
BBC News | IS conflict: French raid in Syria 'kills 12 child soldiers' BBC News An activist group has said France's first air strike on Islamic State (IS) militants in Syrian territory killed 30, including 12 child soldiers. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday's strike on an IS camp in eastern Syria had ... France investigates Syria's Assad for crimes against humanity |
U.S. News & World Report | Will Russia's Move Ruin Erdogan's Plan for Syria? U.S. News & World Report Turkey's July decision to finally open its air bases near Syria and Iraq, including Incirlik, to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State was a game changer for the region. It meant the coalition's air raids against IS would become more ... |
Russia launches first air strikes in Syria as non-Isis rebels claim they are ... The Independent The US believes Russia has launched its first airstrikes in Syria just hours after the country's Parliament approved Vladimir Putin's request for military intervention. No further information was given but activists in Homs and Hama provinces have ... |
BBC News | Philip Hammond: Russia 'must confirm Syria air strike target' BBC News Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said Russia must confirm its air strikes in Syria were aimed at Islamic State or al-Qaeda affiliates. It was very important that Russia should show the attacks were not on moderate opponents of President Assad, he ... |
CNN | Soup for Syria: A recipe to help refugees CNN (CNN) It was a cold winter night. Barbara Abdeni Massaad sat shivering in her apartment in Beirut, Lebanon. She turned on her heater to warm up but still had no relief from the frigid weather. "That night, I couldn't sleep thinking about refugee ... |