Wall Street Journal | EU Push on Russia, Syria to End Aleppo Bombing Wall Street Journal LUXEMBOURG—European Union foreign ministers on Monday pledged swift action to broaden sanctions against the Assad regime in Syria and called on Russia to live up to its responsibilities and end the bombing of Aleppo immediately. EU foreign-policy ... Inside a rebel weapons factory in Syria Syria Shows That Realism Still Dominates Global Politics Syria war: Russia announces Aleppo humanitarian pause |
War on the Rocks | The Perplexing Problems of Solving Syria War on the Rocks What is there to say about Syria? That it is a tragedy? That only the horrors of the Holocaust, Pol Pot's reign of terror, and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution diminish its human toll? That the so-called international community strenuously condemns the ... |
BBC News | Syria conflict: IS 'ousted from symbolic town of Dabiq' BBC News Turkish-backed rebels have captured the symbolically important Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, rebel commanders and monitors say. Dabiq was under "full control" of Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut ... Syria: Dabiq and ISIL's end of times Turkey seeks to expand border 'safe zone' 45km into Syria Village Mythologized by ISIS Is Recaptured, Syrian Rebels Say |
New York Daily News | 2 Wisconsin men arrested for trying to join ISIS, travel to Syria New York Daily News Two blood-thirsty Wisconsin men "tired of living under the infidel's system" have been busted for trying to join ISIS by traveling through Mexico to Syria, authorities said. Jason Ludke, 35, and Yosvany Padilla-Conde, 30, both of Milwaukee, outlined ... |
Sky News | Video of boy saved from roof after Syria strike Sky News Video shows boy saved from rooftop after Syria airstrike. The boy is seen covered in dust, holding on for life on the rooftop of a building that has been hit by an airstrike. 16:21, UK, Monday 17 October 2016. A boy is rescued from the rooftop of a ... New Aleppo Attack in Syria Kills at Least 23 Incredible video shows Syrian boy dangling from wrecked building after airstrike in Aleppo Syria crisis: Footage shows boy dangling by legs from building after Aleppo airstrike |
The Independent | When Mosul falls, Isis will flee to the safety of Syria. But what then? The Independent Syria's army and Hezbollah and Iranian allies are preparing for a massive invasion by thousands of Isis fighters who will be driven out of Iraq when Mosul falls. The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned "liberation" of the Iraqi city, the ... US, Coalition Continue Strikes Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq 100000 Iraqis may flee Mosul for Syria, Turkey: UN |
Department of Defense | Iraq, Syria Make Significant Strides Countering ISIL, Press Secretary Says Department of Defense A Navy F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 131 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Oct. 16, 2016. The Eisenhower carrier strike group is deployed in support of Operation ... |
Los Angeles Times | Why thousands of Iraqi fighters have poured into Syria to aid Assad Los Angeles Times As civil war rages in Syria , its outcome has become of vital importance to Iraqis who see the fight there as another front in the battle they face at home. It has pushed some factions of the country's Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) — paramilitary ... |
Wall Street Journal | 'Syria: A Living History' Review: More Than a Land of Conflict Wall Street Journal Broadly speaking, this same purpose actuates “Syria: A Living History,” which features 48 objects from seven international museums. According to Syrian-born co-curator Nasser Rabbat, the Aga Khan professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at MIT, “for ... |
[Ticker] EU condemns Russia for role in Syria killings EUobserver EU foreign ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, condemned the attacks on Aleppo by the Syrian regime "and its allies, notably Russia", saying they "may amount to war crimes", and called for the end of "indiscriminate aerial bombardment". |