War on the Rocks | There is No Russian Withdrawal from Syria War on the Rocks With characteristic deadpan delivery, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the sudden withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria earlier this week, declaring their campaign a success. Before the day was through, Russian aircraft and crews were ... Putin's honouring of Syria veterans suggests wider involvement Russia jets continue strikes in Syria, Moscow says Russia Isn't Really Withdrawing From Syria |
ABC News | The Latest: UN Envoy Says Syria Talks to Continue Monday ABC News Russian Su-25 ground attack jets prepare to land after return from Syria at a Russian air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, southern Russia, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. More Russian planes returned from Syria on Wednesday, two days after President Vladimir ... Russian air strikes in Syria this week after all: US military Syria conflict: Russia 'steps up strikes on IS at Palmyra' Syria Peace Talks a Work in Progress |
What Russia Accomplished in Syria New York Times What Russia Accomplished in Syria. By ANNE BARNARD, SERGIO PEÇANHA and DEREK WATKINS MARCH 18, 2016. Russian jets started attacking Syria six months ago and changed the course of the war. Now Russia says it is done, but the extent of its ... |
Quartz | Five years after I saw my friends die for freedom in Syria, the world has given up Quartz March 18 is the day the first activist was killed by Syrian government forces, at the beginning of 2011's wave of pro-democracy protests. Unlike earlier government-led killings like the 1982 Hama Massacare, YouTube and Facebook made it impossible for ... |
Refinery29 | Why This Woman Went Undercover In Syria Refinery29 Ward, 36, has traveled to Syria 14 times in the past five years, even as conditions have become increasingly dangerous. She made her last trip in February along with CNN producer Salma Abdelaziz and Syria-based filmmaker Bilal Abdul Kareem, filming ... Undercover In Syria: CNN's Clarissa Ward On Reporting In Rebel-Held Syria |
CBS News | Al Qaeda in Syria "appears to have overstepped" CBS News BEIRUT -- With Syria's shaky cease-fire holding, peaceful protesters have yet again taken to the streets in opposition-held areas of the country. But this time, in addition to President Bashar Assad's government, they have another despised authority ... |
The Nation. | There Is No Military Solution for Syria The Nation. Brahimi, who led United Nations missions in Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq before becoming the special joint envoy of the Arab League and the UN on peace efforts in Syria from 2012 to 2014, adds that Russian and American diplomats have in fact been ... Damascus Residents Comment on Russia Pulling out of Syria |
Newsweek | Now is Not The Time to Talk of Federalism in Syria Newsweek Recent events have indicated that some form of division of Syria is increasingly becoming a possibility. Earlier this week, the main Syrian Kurdish faction, the PYD, declared a federal region in the areas they control in the north. Russia's withdrawal ... |
Paris attack cell stretched from Europe to Syria and back Fox News PARIS – Police, prosecutors, friends, families and acquaintances have unveiled details about the men who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Altogether, authorities say that three teams participated in the bloody assault. Here is a look at what ... |
Washington Post | If the war in Syria happened in the US, there would be 68 million refugees Washington Post The past week marked the grim fifth anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict, a grinding, brutal war that has claimed more than 250,000 lives and displaced around half of the country's roughly 22 million people. According to U.N. data, the war ... |