New York Times | Amid New Airstrikes in Syria, an Aid Convoy Arrives New York Times The United Nations resumed aid convoys to besieged communities in Syria on Thursday for the first time since a deadly attack on trucks loaded with supplies on Monday. But that accomplishment seemed fragile as talks in New York between the United States ... Syria regime announces new Aleppo offensive as truce collapses Syria ignores Kerry and launches an offensive to recapture Aleppo AP Exclusive: Assad Blames US for Collapse of Syria Truce |
NBCNews.com | Assad Blames US for Collapse of Syria Cease-fire, Denies Besieging Aleppo NBCNews.com DAMASCUS, Syria — President Bashar al-Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city's rebel-held neighborhoods, blaming the U.S. for the ... Syria conflict: Warplanes set rebel-held Aleppo ablaze The Prospect of a Cease-Fire in Syria Is in Tatters US airstrikes on Syrian troops were 'intentional,' lasted nearly 1 hour – Assad to AP |
Aljazeera.com | More talks at UN as Syria's future 'hangs by a thread' Aljazeera.com Air strikes continue to hammer the city of Aleppo as world powers with a stake in Syria's civil war are meeting in New York. The United States and Russia on Thursday are chairing a meeting that will bring together the 23-nation International Syria ... |
CNN | Obama says Syria war 'haunts' him CNN Obama's efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis in Syria have largely fallen short since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad turned violent five years ago. The latest attempt with Russia to broker peace in Syria is unraveling amid mutual ... |
Wall Street Journal | As Violence in Syria Again Soars, One Rebel-Held Neighborhood Relents Wall Street Journal BEIRUT—Hundreds of rebels and their families began evacuating the opposition's last redoubt in the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, as regime and Russian warplanes pummeled Aleppo to the north in what antigovernment activists called the heaviest ... |
NPR | 'He Will Be Our Brother': Boy, 6, Asks Obama To Bring Syrian Boy To Live With Him NPR The breathtaking sadness of seeing a boy suffering amid Syria's civil war has prompted a breathtaking offer of hospitality and kindness. The sight of shell-shocked 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who was wounded in an airstrike in Aleppo, left many people ... In handwritten letter, 6-year-old tells Obama Syrian boy can be his brother Alex Will Take in Syria's Refugees New York kid, 6, asks Obama if Syrian boy can come live with him |
Voice of America | Rockets From IS-held Areas in Syria Again Target Turkish Town Voice of America Despite a Turkish-led assault to uproot Islamic State fighters from northern Syria, rockets launched Thursday from remaining IS-held areas hit a Turkish border town, wounding at least eight people, including children, near a busy market, Turkish ... Eight wounded as rockets from Syria pound Turkish border town Obama Administration Considers Arming Syrian Kurds Against ISIS Report: U.S. Considering Arming Syrian Kurds, Risking Support From Turkey |
TIME | Syria's Children Are the World's Responsibility TIME Then, when we thought it couldn't get worse, the tide of the refugee crisis flooded the world: More than 4.8 million Syrians—close to half of them children—were displaced from their ancestral homes, forced to dwell in overcrowded and inadequate ... Syria barrel bomb attack: At least 16 killed at wake in Aleppo Syria war: Dozens killed while attending Aleppo funeral Turkey Strikes Kurds, ISIS in North Syria |
ITV News | 'New Holocaust' in Syria as bombs kill dozens in Aleppo ITV News Aleppo experienced its heaviest bombardment in months on Wednesday as a local doctor warned Syria's war was turning into the "new Holocaust". Shelling by warplanes in rebel-held areas of the city left at least 45 people dead as a US plea to halt ... |
Newsweek | Russian Votes From Syria Hint At Size of Military Deployment Newsweek Nearly 5,000 Russians voted in the country's parliamentary election from the territory of Syria, a large part of whom are suspected to be Russian military personnel in the country, news channel RBC reports. Russia has never made the size of its ... |