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China seeks to take its business to Syria in post-war rebuilding effort - South China Morning Post Thu, 21 Dec 2017 03:00:28 GMT

South China Morning Post

China seeks to take its business to Syria in post-war rebuilding effort
South China Morning Post
With Western powers reluctant to help rebuild Syria after its civil war, and Russia and Iran balking at the estimated quarter-trillion dollars it will cost, China is stepping in. China-Arab Exchange Association vice-president Qin Yong, who is about to ...
Astana hosts eighth round of talks on Syria's war | Turkey News | Al ...Aljazeera.com
Syria: MSF reports show more assistance is needed to meet healthcare needsMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Syria peace talks little more than political theaterArab News
ReliefWeb -Anadolu Agency -WTHR
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Partial blinding of Syrian baby sparks viral campaign | News | Al ... - Aljazeera.com Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:58:26 GMT

Aljazeera.com
Partial blinding of Syrian baby sparks viral campaign | News | Al ...
Aljazeera.com
Heavily scarred child, known only as Karim, lost his mother in government artillery attack in Eastern Ghouta.
Syrians are covering one eye in symbol of resistance after baby is partially blinded by Assad regime bombingThe Independent
UN Extends Authorization for Cross-border Aid Deliveries in SyriaVoice of America
The man-made disaster in Syria's Eastern GhoutaIRINnews.org
BBC News -UN News Centre -The Straits Times
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Syria war: Air strikes on rebel-held Idlib village kill 19 - BBC News Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:29:13 GMT

BBC News
Syria war: Air strikes on rebel-held Idlib village kill 19
BBC News
At least 19 people are reported to have been killed in air strikes on a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a number of homes were hit overnight in Maarshurin, in the province of Idlib ...
Strikes kill 19 in rebel village in Syria's Idlib: Observatory, rescue serviceReuters
Airstrikes in north-west Syria kill 17SBS
Air strikes kill 19 civilians in SyriaThe News International
The Jerusalem Post mobile website -euronews -AMN Al-Masdar News
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Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study - New York Times Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:00:31 GMT

New York Times
Holocaust Museum Tries Again on Contentious Syria Study
New York Times
One of the most ambitious studies conducted on Syria's civil war and American options to mitigate it finally saw the light of day on Tuesday. The study, which was commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, had been the subject of ...

Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don't Forget Us” - The New Yorker Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:04:13 GMT

The New Yorker
Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don't Forget Us”
The New Yorker
Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who disappeared after the inspiring days of the Arab Spring devolved into a chaotic civil war. Then he became one of ...

Syrian Democratic Forces Continue to Drive Out ISIS, OIR Spokesman Says - Department of Defense Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:21:26 GMT

Department of Defense
Syrian Democratic Forces Continue to Drive Out ISIS, OIR Spokesman Says
Department of Defense
“Despite recent claims from Russia that Syria is free from ISIS terror, the SDF are still meeting resistance from ISIS fighters in the region,” he said. “ISIS is putting up a stiff defense in remaining territories in the [Middle Euphrates River Valley ...
Children 'brainwashed by ISIS' before returning from Syria pose terror threat to UK, Amber Rudd warnsEvening Standard
US “Confronting” Iran inside Syria: Spoiling for an Unlawful Fight?Just Security

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Syria: Flash update on recent events - 20 December 2017 - ReliefWeb Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:46:37 GMT

ReliefWeb
Syria: Flash update on recent events - 20 December 2017
ReliefWeb
1,221,863 displacements recorded by the CCCM Cluster in the last 12 months from affected areas of northern and southern Syria: o 1,191,079 displacements from affected areas of northern Syria, including Ar-Raqqa (320,019), Aleppo (265,291), Deir-Ez-Zor ...

In a New Challenge to Israel, Syria's Assad Sets His Sights on Golan Border Area - Haaretz Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:23:46 GMT

Haaretz
In a New Challenge to Israel, Syria's Assad Sets His Sights on Golan Border Area
Haaretz
The dramatic turns in the Syrian civil war seem likely to affect developments on the border with Israel. Abetted by Russian might in the air and Shi'ite militias sent to him by Iran, Bashar Assad is racking up more and more successes. The conquest of ...

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Sesame Street to help Syrian refugees - BBC News Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:27:21 GMT

BBC News
Sesame Street to help Syrian refugees
BBC News
Characters from the children's television programme Sesame Street are going to be used to help teach children displaced by war in Syria. The Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee have won a $100m (£75m) grant to help with the "toxic ...
Meet some of the young Syrian lives the IRC and Sesame Street will changeRescue
Chicago Foundation Awards $100M to Syrian Children's ProgramU.S. News & World Report
Muppets Win $100 Million MacArthur Grant to Help Syrian RefugeesBloomberg
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Chinese Troops Arrive in Syria to Fight Uyghur Rebels - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:52:08 GMT

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Chinese Troops Arrive in Syria to Fight Uyghur Rebels
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
The Syrian conflict has an endless capability to surprise analysts as seemingly every other day a new element, unprecedented in the Syrian civil war, comes to the surface. Such is the case with the arrival of the first Chinese Army special forces unit ...

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