NPR | UN: More Than 600000 Syrians Have Returned Home In 2017 NPR A rising number of Syrians who fled are returning to their homes, with more than 600,000 going back in the first seven months of this year, according to the International Organization for Migration. The U.N. migration agency says that number is ... Displaced Syrians heading home in larger numbers: IOM Over 600000 displaced Syrians returned home so far this year – UN agency Aid Agencies Warn Displaced Against Premature Returns to Syria |
The Guardian | The Latest: US colonel: Tough battle ahead in Syria's Raqqa ABC News This frame grab from video released Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, and provided by Furat FM, a Syrian Kurdish activist-run media group, shows U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters advance in Raqqa, Syria. U.S.-backed Syrian fighters advancing ... US-led anti-Isis campaign in Raqqa 'failing to avoid civilian deaths' US-backed Syrian fighters link up from east, west in Raqqa Syria's female soldiers prepare to take on Isis in battle for Raqqa |
Sacramento Bee | Lions, tigers, bears from war-torn Syria evacuated to Jordan Sacramento Bee Thirteen animals that had been trapped in harsh conditions in a zoo in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo were evacuated on Friday to a wildlife reserve in Jordan. Five lions, two tigers, two bears, two hyenas and two dogs were being released into the ... 13 Zoo Animals Rescued From War-Torn Syria |
The Independent | Israel tried to thwart peace in Syria because of its concerns about Iran's growing power The Independent Officials from Israel tried to derail a planned ceasefire agreement in Syria's restive south, it has emerged, over worries about Iran's growing influence in the country. US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ... |
Reuters | Hezbollah steers Lebanon closer to Syria, straining efforts to stay neutral Reuters The Lebanese policy of "dissociation", agreed in 2012, has aimed to keep the deeply divided state out of regional conflicts such as Syria even as Iran-backed Hezbollah became heavily involved there, sending fighters to help Assad, who is also allied to ... Israel Anxiously Awaits Butterfly Effect of Destruction of ISIS Syrian rebels to pull out of Lebanon border enclave Syrian Refugees, 350 Militants to Leave Lebanon Saturday to Return Home |
The Guardian | Victorian MP Khalil Eideh accused of hiding visits to Syria prior to US entry attempt The Guardian A Victorian state MP who was denied entry to the United States on an official visit last month has declined to comment on reports he misrepresented the number of times he had visited Syria in the past six months. Labor MP Khalil Eideh, who is the ... Barred from the US: Victorian MP Khalil Eideh visited Syria more times than he admitted Eideh went to Syria twice before US ban |
The Times of Israel | Explosion hits rebels on Syria-Jordan border: monitor, activist Reuters BEIRUT (Reuters) - An explosion hit a rebel gathering near the Syria-Jordan border on Friday, killing at least 23 fighters and wounding dozens more, a war monitor and an activist said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a violent explosion ... Syria suicide blast kills 23 rebel fighters near Jordan border Rebels suffer largest setback in southern Syria after losing Sweida-Jordan borer Syrian army gains ground on Jordan border in southwest |
Washington Post | This journalist imprisoned in Syria must be freed Washington Post But the pull of journalism was strong, and he left law school after his second year to find some larger meaning covering Syria's deepening civil war. In a Facebook post published just weeks before he disappeared, Mr. Tice left little doubt about his ... |
The Independent | Isis is 'adapting' to military pressure in Iraq and Syria, finds UN report The Independent New evidence presented by experts to the United Nations Security Council has found that Isis is still a dangerous and capable militant organisation, despite its recent heavy losses across its territory in Syria and Iraq. The 24-page report, discussed ... |
Herald Sun | Victorian MP told to come clean on secret Syrian trips Herald Sun Mr Eideh had previously claimed his most recent trip to Syria was “last Christmas” and he had not visited after being issued the American visa. Roads Minister Luke Donnellan also backed his Labor colleague on Friday but appeared not to know Mr Eideh, ... |