CNN | Sources: At least 22 killed in strikes against 2 hospitals, school in Syria CNN (CNN) Rescuers wearing hard hats searched through rubble for survivors in northern Syria Monday after airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school building. The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports. Eight others are missing and presumed ... Missiles in Syria kill 50 as schools, hospitals hit; Turkey accuses Russia Airstrikes hit two Syrian hospitals, with Turkey condemning 'obvious war crime' Russian airstrikes destroy Doctors Without Borders-backed hospital in Syria, activists say |
USA TODAY | A mind-boggling stew of nations is fighting in Syria's civil war USA TODAY Armies and militias from more than a dozen countries have joined the Syria conflict, making for a mind-boggling and dangerous stew of shifting and competing alliances. Even as a proposed cease-fire is scheduled to begin as early as this week, more ... Doctors Without Borders clinic bombed in Syria Saudi Troops into Syria: The “Gates of Hell” Will Be Open in the Coming Months. Three Possible Scenarios Syria: 'Quicksand' for Saudi Forces? |
Huffington Post | Assad and Putin Will Likely Disregard the Syria Cease-Fire and Destroy the Opposition Huffington Post Airstrikes destroyed multiple medical centers in Syria Monday, killing dozens of civilians and leaving tens of thousands without health care. Both Russian and Syrian warplanes operate over the region. The strikes occurred amid discussions of a cease ... Syria Accord Looms Over Europe Security Meeting Russia presses air blitz in Syria to dictate peace terms McCain slams Russia: 'Mr. Putin is not interested in being our partner' |
RT | 'Huge step forward': Russia's FM spox Zakharova on Syria peace commitments and challenges RT The agreements reached by the International Syria Support Group in Munich, in spite of “unacceptable” provocations by Ankara and “ambiguous” US policies, have become an “important step” to peace in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson told ... |
Financial Times | A Syria policy that dare not speak its name Financial Times Once President Barack Obama had let Bashar al-Assad cross his “red line” and use chemical weapons in 2013, America was left with a policy in Syria that dare not speak its name. The policy is not what the US wants but, in light of the ceasefire plan ... Turkey, Saudi pursuing Syria invasion for 2 years: Assad Ceasefire Doesn't Mean Parties 'Stop Using Weapons,' According To Syria's Assad |
Turkish defense minister: 'No intention' of sending ground troops into Syria CNN International (CNN) Turkey's defense minister said his country has no intention of sending ground troops into Syria amid international concern over Ankara's shelling of armed Kurdish groups in the war-torn country. Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz made the comments ... |
CNN International | Syria: Assad's frontline with ISIS CNN International CNN's Fred Pleitgen was given exclusive access to the Syrian regime's frontline against ISIS in eastern Syria. U.S. Senator John McCain criticizes Russia's actions in Syria at the Munich · McCain slams Russia: 'Mr. Putin is not interested in being ... |
Wall Street Journal | Hospitals in Syria Bombed as Fighting Escalates Wall Street Journal Violence in northern Syria escalated Monday, casting deep doubt on a planned cease-fire as the U.S. accused the Assad regime and its ally Russia of bombing civilian hospitals. The intensified fighting also is complicating the challenge of getting ... |
CNN | Syria: In Aleppo, one man's story of fear, defiance and survival CNN Masri is a 25-year-old photographer in Aleppo who documents the fatalism, fear and sometimes the defiance of tens of thousands of civilians who remain in rebel-held areas of the city now almost encircled by Syrian government forces and their allies. |
New York Times | Syrian Officer Gave a View of War. ISIS Came, and Silence Followed. New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ours was an unusual, sometimes operatic, correspondence that unfolded over more than a year. Abu al-Majd, a Syrian police officer who was being deployed more and more often like a soldier, texted at all hours, sending news from the ... |