New York Magazine | What Is the United States Doing in Syria These Days? New York Magazine This has always been the daunting nature of the Syrian conflict: many powers, large and small, operating in close quarters and competing for deeply felt interests. The one thing United States and Russia and their respective allies could agree on — at ... Are We in a Syrian Missile Crisis? Iran mocks reports its Syria missile strikes fell short President Trump's next Syria test |
Aljazeera.com | Russia is at a dead-end in Syria Aljazeera.com The victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections last November raised the Russian leadership' hopes of improving Russian-US relations in general and reaching a compromise on Syria, in particular. Now, five months after Trump took power, the ... It's Time to Break Up Syria Counter-ISIS Strikes Continue in Syria, Iraq Superpower proxy war in Syria is troubling |
Washington Post | Israel strikes targets in Syria for 2nd day ABC News The Israeli military on Sunday said it attacked a series of targets belonging to the Syrian military, after several projectiles from neighboring Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for a second day. The military said it targeted two ... Israel strikes Syrian positions after fire toward it Israel Attacks Syrian Posts After Cross-Border Fire From Syria IDF strikes Syrian targets in response to second day of Golan spillover |
Washington Post | We're closer than ever to eradicating Polio — and yet there's Syria Washington Post WONDERFUL AS it is to recall the glories of the manned space program — the exhilaration and sense of infinite possibilities for humanity — there were also setbacks, disasters and disappointments. Something similar is happening now with polio and the ... |
U.S. News & World Report | Car Bomb in Syria's Idlib Province Kills 10: War Monitor U.S. News & World Report A still image taken from a video uploaded by White Helmets on June 24, 2017, shows vehicles on fire at the site of a car bomb, said to be in the town of al-Dana, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province. White Helmets via Reuters TV Reuters. BEIRUT ... |
Aljazeera.com | Deadly car bombing kills Syrian civilians in Idlib Aljazeera.com At least 10 civilians have been killed and 30 others injured in a car bombing in Idlib, an opposition-held city in northwestern Syria, according to a monitoring group. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the bombing targeted a ... Syria Frees Hundreds of Detainees Ahead of Muslim Holiday Syria's more confident Assad gives Eid prayers in Hama Syria releases hundreds of detainees ahead of Eid |
Reuters | US-backed Syrian groups take Raqqa district from Islamic State Reuters BEIRUT A U.S.-backed Syrian coalition of Kurdish and Arab groups advanced against Islamic State in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa on Sunday, taking the al-Qadisia district, they said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began its assault on ... Amnesty declared for 83 ISIL members in Syria's Raqqa Syrian regime, Raqqa council separately announce releases of prisoners |
Reuters | Erdogan dismisses pledges over weapons for Kurds in Syria Reuters ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday countries which promised to get back weapons supplied to Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria were trying to trick Turkey and would eventually realize their mistake. Ankara was infuriated by a ... |
Washington Post | US risks further battles as it steps deeper into Syrian quagmire Washington Post BEIRUT — The United States is becoming more perilously drawn into Syria's fragmented war as it fights on increasingly congested battlefields surrounding Islamic State territory. On Sunday, a U.S. fighter jet downed a Syrian warplane for the first time ... Russia Draws A Line Across Syria After US Shoots Down Syrian Jet Attacks heighten complexity of air war in Syria American Warplane Shoots Down Iranian-Made Drone Over Syria |
New York Times | CIA Set Up Secret Back Channel With Syria to Try to Free US Hostage New York Times So in early February, Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, spoke on the phone with Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria's National Security Bureau intelligence service, a man accused of human rights abuses during the country's civil war and slapped with ... Syria Strike May Have Ruined Trump's Chances Of Bringing American Hostage Home |