New York Times | In Push on Aleppo, Syria and Russia Seem Ready to Further Scorch Its Earth New York Times The killing and destruction in Syria, of course, has stupefied much of the world over the past five years. But it could pale in comparison with a military assault to retake all of Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and still home to about two million ... Syria airstrikes kill 85 people in Aleppo amid diplomatic row Syria conflict: US accuses Russia of 'barbarism' in Aleppo US accuses Russia of 'barbarism' and war crimes in Syria |
Financial Times | At Least 26 Killed in Aleppo as UN Meets Over Syria ABC News At least 26 civilians were killed in fresh government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists said Sunday, as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the spiraling violence in Syria but failed to take ... West slams Russian actions in Syria Syrian and Russian airstrikes continue major offensive to take back Aleppo 'From Paradise to Hell': How an Aid Convoy in Syria Was Blown Apart |
Sputnik International | Aid delivered to four besieged towns in Syria: ICRC Reuters Madaya, near the border with Lebanon, has a population of around 40,000 and has been besieged by Syrian government-allied forces for around six month. Zabadani has 1,000 people left. Kefraya and al-Foua, in Idlib province in northwest Syria, have ... ICRC Says 71 Trucks With Aid Convoy Sent to Besieged Syrian Cities |
Washington Post | A soliloquy on Syria Washington Post In his final appearance before the U.N. General Assembly a few days ago, President Obama didn't have much to say about the civil war between Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his enemies. “There's no ultimate military victory to be won,” he said, and ... Calls to Expand US Sanctions on Syria's Assad Grow Louder |
RT | Syria Believes It's on Way to Military Victory ABC News Syria's top diplomat told the world's nations Saturday that his country's belief in military victory is greater now because the army "is making great strides in its war against terrorism" with support from Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters ... Syrian FM at UN: Bombing of Syrian troops no mistake, US is ISIS accomplice Syria believes it's on the way to military victory Syria says Israeli 'terrorism' threatens entire region |
Reuters | Kerry's ceaseless diplomacy faces sternest test on Syria Reuters After last week's bombing of a U.N. aid convoy in Syria dealt a death blow to a ceasefire deal in which he had invested all his diplomatic capital with Russia, the U.S. Secretary of State tossed aside a page of notes and looked at Russian Foreign ... |
How Libyan 'Regime Change' Lies Echo in Syria Consortium News Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. media has largely ignored a U.K. report on the West's lies used to justify the Libyan “regime change,” all the better to protect the ongoing falsehoods used in Syria, as James W Carden explains. By James W Carden. Earlier ... |
BBC News | Johnson: 'Russian actions in Syria could be war crime' BBC News Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has suggested that Russia could be guilty of a war crime if it deliberately targeted an aid convoy near Aleppo in an attack which killed at least 20 civilians. He was speaking to Andrew Marr ahead of an urgent UN ... |
RT | Ahrar Al-Sham plans to launch chemical attack on civilians, blame it on Syria govt – Syrian UN envoy RT Militants from Ahrar Al-Sham, a hardline Islamist group, are planning to use white phosphorus in an attack on civilians to later blame it on Syrian armed forces, UN envoy Bashar Ja'afari told a UN Security Council emergency meeting on Sunday. |
Los Angeles Times | Friends, family salute American who died fighting Islamic State in Syria Los Angeles Times So he found another path to service — one that ran through the Kurdish rebels battling Islamic State in Syria. He joined up and was quickly in the thick of the fight. On July 14, during intense urban combat in Manbij, a city of 100,000 in northern ... |