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ISRAEL'S NETANYAHU TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST WITH PUTIN
Iran, Israel's arch-enemy, has been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's staunchest backer and has provided militia fighters to help him... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY POUNDS REBEL AREAS NEAR DAMASCUS AFTER RUSSIAN BROKERED TRUCE
The army has not commented on the latest Russian agreement with Failaq al Rahman whom it considers a terrorist group that threatens the capital... READ MORE›
LEBANESE ARMY BEGINS OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISIL ON BORDER
READ MORE Arsal Hezbollah, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham agree ceasefire The Lebanese army says it is not coordinating with the Syrian army in its military operations... READ MORE›
FADWA SULEIMAN ACTRESS AND VOICE OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION IN EXILE DIES AT 47
Fadwa Suleiman, Actress and Voice of Syrian Opposition in Exile, Dies at 47... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD ADVISOR SAYS SYRIA WAR NEARING ITS END
Washington also has a garrison in the southeast Syrian desert, near a strategic highway border crossing with Iraq, to train local rebels to battle Islamic State... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY ENCIRCLES ISLAMIC STATE IN CENTRAL SYRIA ADVANCE
Driving Islamic State militants out of that pocket would reduce pressure on the road... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. FORCES TO STAY IN SYRIA FOR DECADES, SAY MILITIA ALLIES
The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State has deployed forces at several locations in northern Syria, including an airbase near the town of Kobani... READ MORE›
ASSAD'S MARCH EAST COMPOUNDS WEST'S SYRIA DILEMMA
A Western-backed Syrian rebel with detailed knowledge of the area said Deir al-Zor would be a tough prospect... READ MORE›
THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME IN NUMBERS
The World Food Programme WFP is the leading humanitarian organisation committed to fighting hunger... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES AND MILITANTS RETURN TO SYRIA FROM LEBANON
Hezbollah is stronger than both the Syrian and the Lebanese army... READ MORE›
50,000, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN STRANDED AT UNSAFE JORDAN-SYRIA BORDER AREA
Syrian state media said the capture closed major smuggling points used by rebels to bring weapons and fighters from Jordan into the war-torn country... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY COMES CLOSER TO ENCIRCLING ISLAMIC STATE IN CENTRAL SYRIA DESERT
Syrian government forces advancing from the west have recently crossed into Deir al-Zor province from southern areas of Raqqa province... READ MORE›
SYRIA'S WHITE HELMETS PROTEST AGAINST KILLINGS OF RESCUE WORKERS
US state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert condemned the attack, describing the White Helmets volunteers as heroes ... READ MORE›
FIGHTERS, REFUGEES, LEAVE LEBANON ENCLAVE FOR SYRIA
American soldiers stand near armoured fighting vehicles contributed by the U.S. government to the Lebanese army at Beirut's port, Lebanon, August 14, 2017... READ MORE›
TWO AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ BUT NOT BY 'ENEMY FIRE,' U.S. MILITARY SAYS
The statement did not provide any further detail, except to say that the casualties were being investigated... READ MORE›
SEVEN WHITE HELMETS MEDICS KILLED IN SYRIA'S IDLIB
Gunmen stormed the Sarmin office of the Syrian paramedic group that is active in opposition-controlled areas... READ MORE›
'LOGISTICS' HOLD UP LEBANESE DEAL FOR REBELS, REFUGEES TO RETURN TO SYRIA
Their departure followed military defeat at the hands of Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese group that is fighting in support of the Syrian government... READ MORE›
SEVEN WHITE HELMETS MEMBERS SHOT DEAD IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA
The White Helmets group was widely considered likely to win last year's Nobel Peace Prize... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY SECURES ISLAMIC STATE-HELD TOWN IN HOMS PROVINCE
Syrian government forces advancing from the west have recently crossed into Deir al-Zor province from southern areas of Raqqa province... READ MORE›
DISPLACED SYRIANS HEADING HOME IN LARGER NUMBERS
Speaking after Friday prayers in Ankara, Binali Yildirim, the prime minister, said radical groups have taken over control in Syria's Idlib province... READ MORE›
HEZBOLLAH STEERS LEBANON CLOSER TO SYRIA, STRAINING EFFORTS TO STAY NEUTRAL
Lebanon's relationship with Syria has for decades set rival Lebanese against each other... READ MORE›
SYRIA SEEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TRUCE AS ITS TROOPS TAKE WIDE AREA ALONG BORDER WITH JORDAN
The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media said troops captured all the border observation points along 30 km 18 miles of the border with Jordan... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS TRAPPED IN RAQQA, BUT CHECHEN SNIPERS SLOW U.S.-BACKED FORCES
U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militant... READ MORE›
ARMIDALE REVEALED AS NEW HOME FOR IRAQI AND SYRIAN REFUGEES
The northern NSW town of Armidale will accept 200 refugees who have fled conflicts in Iraq and Syria, the Turnbull Government has announced... READ MORE›
MILITANTS TRAPPED IN RAQQA CENTER BUT SYRIAN KURD COMMANDER SEES LONG BATTLE
SDF spokesman Talal Selo said on Tuesday that mines were slowing movement even where Islamic State... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY GAINS GROUND ON JORDAN BORDER IN SOUTHWEST
Rebel groups, some of them backed by Western and Arab states, still control much of Syria's southwestern frontier with Jordan and Israel... READ MORE›
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS FEARED TRAPPED IN RAQQA BATTLE WITHOUT ACCESS TO AID
The United Nations on Wednesday urged those fighting in Syria's Raqqa to remember obligations to protect civilians, voicing concern over the tens of thou... READ MORE›
US-LED COALITION AIR RAIDS KILL 29 CIVILIANS IN RAQQA
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine women and 14 children had been killed in coalition air raids on Raqqa city since Monday evening... READ MORE›
U.S.-LED COALITION STRIKES KILL 29 CIVILIANS IN SYRIA
The Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, an alliance of coalition-backed groups, began its assault on Raqqa in June after a months-long campaign to isolate the city... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY POUNDS REBEL-HELD DAMASCUS SUBURB, SAY ACTIVISTS
BEIRUT -- Syrian opposition activists say government warplanes have bombed a suburb of the capital, Damascus, where President Bashar Assad's forces are fighting insurgents... READ MORE›
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TRUMP ENDS COVERT CIA PROGRAM TO ARM ANTI-ASSAD REBELS IN SYRIA, A MOVE SOUGHT BY MOSCOW
Just three months ago, after the United States accused Assad of using chemical weapons, Trump launched retaliatory airstrikes against a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
AFGHAN GIRLS TEAM SHINES AT US ROBOTICS COMPETITION
So the competition recruited a robotics team at George C. Marshall high school in Falls Church, Virginia, to help... READ MORE›
ONE OF SYRIA'S BEST-KNOWN DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS HAS BEEN EXECUTED
His death is a grim reminder of the horrors that take place in Syrian prisons every day... READ MORE›
THE NEW SILK ROAD WILL GO THROUGH SYRIA
The China-Arab Exchange Association and the Syrian Embassy organized a Syria Day Expo crammed with hundreds of Chinese specialists in infrastructure investment... READ MORE›
'WE'RE BAD DAY AWAY FROM RUSSIANS ASKING, 'WHY ARE YOU STILL IN SYRIA?' - TOP US COMMANDER
'We're bad day away from Russians asking, 'Why are you still in Syria?' - top US commander -- RT America... READ MORE›
UNDER TRUMP NEW SYRIA FORCE QUICKLY LOST CIA BACKING
But by late 2015 the Russian military offensive in Syria was focusing squarely on the C.I.A.-backed fighters battling Syrian government troops... READ MORE›
TRUMP ENDS COVERT AID TO SYRIAN REBELS TRYING TO TOPPLE ASSAD
The program also sought to bolster so-called moderate rebels against extremist factions like the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda... READ MORE›
INTERPOL CIRCULATES LIST OF 173 SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ISIS SUICIDE BRIGADE
For each of the fighters, an ID was created to ensure that each member country in the Interpol network could integrate the data with local databases... READ MORE›
FORMER BRITISH SOLDIER HELD IN TURKEY OVER 'PRO-KURDISH PROPAGANDA'
Joe Robinson arrested on holiday in Turkey accused of posting photos on Facebook wearing Kurdish militia uniform... READ MORE›
RUSSIA SEES GROWING ACCEPTANCE OF ASSAD AS KEY TO SYRIA TALKS
Borodavkin said the success of such a unified delegation would depend on its willingness to compromise with Assad's team... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE RUSSIAN LOSSES IN SYRIA JUMP IN 2017 REUTERS ESTIMATES SHOW
According to multiple sources, Russian private military contractors are secretly deployed in Syria under command of a man nicknamed Wagner... READ MORE›
ISIS MAY BE ON ITS KNEES BUT IT WILL RISE AGAIN IF WE DON'T BREAK THE CYCLE
The group is also projected to lose its second pillar, Raqqa in Syria, by the end of this year... READ MORE›
AT HISTORIC ALEPPO HOTEL, NOSTALGIA FOR A SYRIA LOST
A view shows the interior of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, Syria July 14, 2017... READ MORE›
AIR STRIKES KILL 10 IN SYRIA'S EASTERN GHOUTA
The assault took place in the Eastern Ghouta region, which has been partially besieged by the Syrian government since 2013... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP ENDS COVERT CIA AID TO SYRIAN REBELS IN 'WIN' FOR RUSSIA
But the revelation comes days after Mr Trump's first meeting with President Vladimir Putin, who backs the Syrian regime... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP GOT ASKED ABOUT HIS POSITION ON HEZBOLLAH. HIS ANSWER WASN'T REASSURING
Hezbollah was a menace from within to the Lebanese people and the region, Mr Trump added... READ MORE›
TRUMP 'ENDS CIA ARMS PROGRAMME FOR REBELS'
US President Donald Trump has ended the CIA's clandestine programme to provide weapons and supplies to Syrian rebel groups, officials have said... READ MORE›
AID AGENCIES FAULT UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON SYRIA CONFLICT
The council adopted two resolutions in 2014 that authorized United Nations aid agencies to send convoys across Syria's borders without the consent of the government... READ MORE›
ARSAL: HEZBOLLAH, JABHAT FATEH AL-SHAM AGREE CEASEFIRE
Hezbollah has been calling for talks in order to reach a settlement... READ MORE›
U.S., RUSSIA, REACH CEASEFIRE DEAL IN SOUTHWEST SYRIA
Washington has been resistant to letting Iranian forces and their proxy militias gain strength in Syria's south, a position shared by Israel and Jordan... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY TAKES ISIL-HELD TOWN OF AL-SUKHNA IN HOMS
Syrian government troops and allied forces have taken the last major ISIL-held town in Homs province, according to a monitor... READ MORE›
THE TORTURE SURVIVORS SUING THE SYRIAN REGIME
In May 2006, al-Bunni and a number of other human rights activists were arrested after signing the Beirut-Damascus Declaration, which called for normalizing Lebanese-Syrian relations... READ MORE›
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOUGHEST BATTLES STILL TO BE FOUGHT AGAINST ISIS
The battle in Mosul is finally over, but the militants still control a sizable area, mostly in Syria but also Iraq... READ MORE›
LEBANESE MEDIATOR KILLED IN FIGHTING NEAR SYRIAN BORDER
On Saturday, Hezbollah announced several advances in the mountainous border area of Juruod Arsal... READ MORE›
CEASEFIRE IN SYRIA'S SOUTHWEST LARGELY HOLDS
Frontlines across three provinces in southwest Syria have remained mostly quiet nearly 24 hours after an internationally brokered ceasefire took effect, according to a UK-based monitor... READ MORE›
DEADLY AMBUSH NEAR DAMASCUS HITS PRO-ASSAD FORCES
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR said the soldiers and allied fighters were ambushed in the village of Rihan, east of Damascus... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY, ALLIES ADVANCE AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE EAST OF RAQQA
The Syrian army has active front lines with Islamic State in western Raqqa province and has made recent gains there... READ MORE›
NEW CONFLICTS THREATEN SYRIA AFTER ISLAMIC STATE DEFEAT
We will not give up our weapons, said a sniper aiming at Islamic State positions, who only gave her first name, Barkaneurin... READ MORE›
DID THE PUTIN-TRUMP CEASEFIRE KILL THE ASTANA TALKS?
On July 9, the new ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia kicked off in southwest Syria... READ MORE›
SYRIA REBELS BLINDSIDED BY U.S. MOVE, SAY JIHADISTS TO BENEFIT
Groups included in the CIA program operate mostly in northwestern and southern Syria... READ MORE›