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New York Times
April 12, 2018
But Mr. Trump's pick of targets is complicated by the presence of Russian troops and Iranian militias, who are supporting Mr. Assad's forces in Syria's .... The outpost, known as al-Tanf, would later turn into a key hub for American forces and allied Syrian rebels as they turned their assault toward theÃâà...
Rudaw
April 12, 2018
Buses carrying Jaysh al-Islam fighters and their families from their former rebel bastion of Douma, arrive at the Abu al-Zindeen checkpoint controlled by ... The rebels were allowed to enter the nearby northern Aleppo town of al-Bab on Wednesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Express.co.uk
April 12, 2018
The YPG is the armed wing of the PYD, the Syrian affiliate of the secular Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). It is considered to be a “terrorist” organisation by Turkey, who is currently waging an aggressive war called Operation Olive Branch to remove the YPG from northern Syria. Turkey supports Jaysh al-IslamÃâà...
Haaretz
April 9, 2018
Hundreds of fighters and their relatives had already left Douma for rebel-held areas in northern Syria. The alleged gas attack in Douma comes almost exactly a year after a chemical attack in the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun killed dozens of people. That attack prompted the U.S. to launch severalÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 9, 2018
Hundreds of fighters and their relatives had already left Douma for rebel-held areas in northern Syria. The alleged gas attack in Douma comes almost exactly a year after a chemical attack in the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun killed dozens of people. That attack prompted the U.S. to launch severalÃâà...
The Guardian
April 9, 2018
Syrian state media denied claims that government forces had launched a chemical attack and said rebels in Douma were in a state of collapse and ... Tens of thousands of civilians and rebel fighters have already left other parts of eastern Ghouta for northern Syria or government-controlled areas in recentÃâà...
The Guardian
March 22, 2018
Syrian rebel fighters from the Ahrar al-Sham faction wait by buses to be evacuated from Ghouta after a deal brokered by regime ally Russia. ... fighters and family members have left the besieged enclave of Ghouta after agreeing with Russian and Syrian officials to be exiled to Idlib, in northern Syria.
New York Times
March 19, 2018
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized control on Sunday morning of the city of Afrin, the target of a two-month military operation against Kurdish militias in the enclave in Syria. The takeover dealt a blow to Kurdish aspirations for self-administration there and added to Turkey's growingÃâà...
Tampabay.com
March 11, 2018
It followed 22 days of intensive ground and air assaults on rebels and civilians trapped inside eastern Ghouta, which have killed over 1,000 people ... Vladimir Zolotukhin of the Russian center for reconciliation of Syria's warring parties said the evacuees would receive "all necessary assistance" within twoÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 11, 2018
Faisal Mekdad, Syria's deputy foreign minister, denied Saturday in Damascus claims by opposition forces that government troops used poison gas in east. ... Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group said government forces have laid siege on the rebel-held town of Harasta, cutting it off fromÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rebel snipers are preventing Syrian civilians from leaving the besieged area of eastern Ghouta through a corridor opened this ... in 2014 when United Nations officials were shelled by pro-government forces as they tried to make a delivery in the old city of Homs, then held by rebels.
Haaretz
March 6, 2018
Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from frontlines with Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive ... Omar al-Edilbi, the spokesman for the militias that have been fighting Islamic State in eastern Syria as part of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
BBC News
March 6, 2018
A Russian transport plane has crashed in Syria killing more than 30 people, the defence ministry says. The An-26 plane crashed during landing at Hmeimim airbase, near the coastal city of Latakia, the ministry is quoted as saying by Russian media. It says all 39 military personnel on board died, not 32 asÃâà...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Syrian rebels, in addition to civilians, are free to use evacuation corridors to leave the besieged eastern Ghouta ... Continuing violence has undercut a U.N.-demanded nationwide cease-fire in Syria, as well as Russia's self-declared daily "humanitarian pause"Ãâà...
BBC News
March 6, 2018
Russia meanwhile has offered rebels safe passage out of the area. The latest suspected chemical attack targeted the town of Hammoria and led to the evacuation of dozens of civilians, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, whose volunteer rescue workers are widely known as the White Helmets.
CNN
March 6, 2018
Russia has offered rebels and their families safe passage out of Eastern Ghouta, promising to protect insurgents from prosecution, Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday in a Facebook post. The Russian military would also provide transport and security, the statement said. One of two main rebel groups inÃâà...
Voice of America
March 2, 2018
The dead included three members of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, while the others were pro-Syrian militias who entered Afrin last week to help repel a Turkish ... Turkey and allied Syrian rebel groups began their operation against the YPG in Afrin in January, aiming to drive the group out of the region.
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
The continuing violence also raised further doubts over the sincerity of Russia, the Syrian regime's main patron, which had ordered daily five-hour truces ... In some of the worst bombardment campaigns of the war in Syria, hundreds of people have been killed in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held enclave that isÃâà...
The Economist (blog)
March 1, 2018
In October Raqqa, the capital of the self-styled caliphate, fell to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia that America has used to fight IS. Mr Assad's regime, keen to concentrate on retaking the lands occupied by IS, duly agreed to a ceasefire with the rebels. By December it was in charge ofÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 1, 2018
By that time, Syria was in the midst of civil war. In the United States, the conflict was seen as a battle between the pro-government forces of President Bashar Assad and resistance rebels. But Syria had become many battlefronts involving an array of militias with different objectives. The YPG, a Kurdish militiaÃâà...
New York Times
February 22, 2018
The entry into Afrin of forces loyal to Mr. Assad — the result of a deal between the Syrian government and Kurdish militias, with the backing of Iran and Russia — has harmed Turkey's ambitions in Syria. It is one of many setbacks that Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has experienced throughoutÃâà...
Voice of America
February 21, 2018
Once an oasis in a bend of the Barada river, eastern Ghouta used to be the garden that fed Syria's capital with fruit, vegetables and cereal. In 2013, it was the target of a Syrian government sarin gas attack that left 1,400 dead, say U.S. officials. Eastern Ghouta's fall will mark the end of substantial non-jihadistÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 20, 2018
The eastern Ghouta suburb is one of the last remaining areas of rebel control in Syria. These rebels, who demand the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, are being bombarded by Syrian military airstrikes. The United Nations described the bombardments on Monday as "senseless humanÃâà...
NPR
February 7, 2018
One Syrian rebel soldier was wounded but no U.S. forces were killed or wounded, according to NPR's Tom Bowman, who is reporting from elsewhere in Syria. In a statement, the Pentagon said, "Syrian pro-regime forces initiated an unprovoked attack against well-established Syrian Democratic ForcesÃâà...
New York Times
February 3, 2018
MOSCOW — A Russian fighter jet was shot down in a rebel-controlled area of Idlib Province in northern Syria on Saturday, Russia's Defense Ministry said, adding that the pilot survived the initial attack by parachuting from the plane but was killed by members of a militia on the ground. The downing of the jetÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A new United Nations resolution demanding a cease-fire across Syria appeared to have little effect on Sunday, as Syrian government forces began new ground attacks against a rebel-held enclave east of Damascus, the capital, and continued aerial bombings that have killed moreÃâà...
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