New York Times | April Nerve Gas Attack in Syria Appears to Be One in a Series New York Times A child being treated for respiratory distress in Aleppo, Syria, in December. A Human Rights Watch report provided new details about an intensifying series of recent government bombings and shellings illegally using chlorine gas. Credit Ghirh Sy ... Soviet-Era Bomb Used in Syria Chemical Weapon Attack, Claims Rights Group Chemical attack in Syria that drew US response was just one in a series, rights group alleges Human Rights Watch report: In Syria, pattern of chemical weapons attacks by Assad regime |
KTLA | Commerce Secretary: U.S. Airstrike in Syria 'Was in Lieu of After-Dinner Entertainment' KTLA On April 6, 57 U.S. missiles struck the Syrian government's Shayrat air base, where the warplanes believed to have carried out a previous chemical attack were based, U.S. officials said. Trump has recounted the strikes, coincidentally timed with Xi's ... Wilbur Ross jokes airstrike on Syria served as 'after-dinner entertainment' Wilbur Ross Calls Syria Attack Trump's 'Entertainment' At Mar-A-Lago Ross: Trump Syria strike 'after-dinner entertainment' |
ABC Online | Australian Defence Force to begin releasing Syria, Iraq airstrike targets in fortnightly reports ABC Online "This decision comes after weighing the importance of reporting ADF air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the potential propaganda advantages it might provide Daesh and any risk to the safety of ADF personnel on operations," Defence said in a statement. US reconsiders its responsibility for civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria Officials Provide Details of Latest Counter-ISIS Strikes in Syria, Iraq Pentagon: 45 civilians killed by coalition strikes in Iraq and Syria |
Washington Examiner | The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist CNN An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned. The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and ... Female FBI agent secretly married ISIS official in Syria Feel safer yet? CNN: FBI agent ran off to Syria and married an ISIS terrorist An FBI employee married an ISIS terrorist in Syria |
Channel NewsAsia | Malaysia sceptical over death of IS leader in Syria Channel NewsAsia Local media NST also reported that Wanndy's comrade, whose nationality is unknown, was also killed in the attack in Ma'dan, Syria, last Saturday. Ayob Khan, head of Malaysia's police counter terrorism unit, told Channel NewsAsia on Monday (May 1) that ... |
KTLA | U.S. Troops Patrol Turkey-Syria Border After Turkish Strikes on Kurds KTLA The airstrikes — targeting the Sinjar Mountains northern Iraq and the Karachok Mountains in northeastern Syria– and the reported cross-border skirmishes since then, have added yet another complication to an already complex situation. Now U.S. troops ... US troops seen patrolling Syria-Turkey border as Washington tries to stop Turkish air strikes on Kurds Erdogan threatens more strikes against US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria The US is trying to stop two of its allies in Syria from mauling each other |
Aljazeera.com | Infighting in Syria's Ghouta leaves nearly 100 dead Aljazeera.com At least 95 Syrian opposition fighters and civilians have been killed during infighting in a rebel-held district in the suburbs of Damascus, according to a monitor. In the third day of clashes, the infighting between Jaish al-Islam group against al ... Factions Fighting in the Syrian Civil War Syrian war: At least 11 killed in barrel bomb attack following weekend of rebel infighting |
ReliefWeb | Syria: UN concerned over worsening security, humanitarian situation in Damascus suburbs ReliefWeb 1 May 2017 – The United Nations today said that it remains deeply concerned by the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in the eastern part of Syria's Ghouta, where some 400,000 people are trapped. “The UN has not reached any part of ... |
Syria: MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta ReliefWeb During the afternoon of 29 April, makeshift hospitals supported by the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were subject to outrageous breaches of respect as intense fighting erupted between armed opposition ... |
Reuters | US-backed militias oust Islamic State from Syria's Tabqa old city Reuters BEIRUT U.S.-backed militias said on Monday they had pushed Islamic State fighters out of the old quarters of Tabqa, a strategically vital town controlling Syria's largest dam, hemming the militants into the remaining modern district along the shore ... US-backed fighters retake more areas from IS in Syrian town US-backed fighters corner IS in Syria's Tabqa Syria war: IS driven back in Tabqa, US-backed fighters say |