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Petoskey News-Review
April 12, 2018
U.S. ability to influence events in Syria has been vanishingly small since Barack Obama ignored the “red line” he drew in 2012 regarding Syrian ... If at this late date the only, or primary, U.S. objective in Syria — and it is not a contemptible one — is to economize violence and minimize atrocities, the ghastlyÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 12, 2018
This was shown as evidence that the PYD, which is considered the Syrian arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), would use civilians as human shields in the anticipated urban warfare. In the end, the PYD retreated from the center of Afrin and the urban warfare expected to take place with theÃâà...
News Deeply
April 12, 2018
As the Syrian government presses on with reconstruction plans for the northern city of Aleppo, Syria Deeply's expert community warns against excluding residents ... There is a need to protect against dangerous types of rebuilding or urban planning schemes that disfigure the historical character of Aleppo.
ReliefWeb
April 12, 2018
Despite expected new arrivals and registrations, some spontaneous returns are projected to take place in the coming two years, mainly among refugees living outside of camps in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. Considering the current landscape in Syria, where the level of destruction of infrastructure isÃâà...
RUSI Analysis
April 12, 2018
The linking of the Russian air defence picture in Syria – informed by modern and highly capable radars such as those found on Russian naval ships and the feared S-400 system at Latakia – to the Syrian regime's own Russian-supplied air defence system means that the missile batteries which wouldÃâà...
Texarkana Gazette
April 12, 2018
U.S. ability to influence events in Syria has been vanishingly small since Barack Obama ignored the "red line" he drew in 2012 regarding Syrian chemical ... If at this late date the only, or primary, U.S. objective in Syria—and it is not a contemptible one—is to economize violence and minimize atrocities, theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 12, 2018
This case study is focused on Sultanbeyli, a district located at the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey. It explores the Syrian refugee ... Here, Syrian refugees struggle with exclusion and poverty among other groups of urban poor, and are integrating with the urban fabric. All previous research on migration inÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 10, 2018
U.S. ability to influence events in Syria has been vanishingly small since Barack Obama ignored the “red line” he drew in 2012 regarding Syrian ... If at this late date the only, or primary, U.S. objective in Syria — and it is not a contemptible one — is to economize violence and minimize atrocities, the ghastlyÃâà...
TRT World
March 17, 2018
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says regime strikes killed over 30 civilians in eastern Ghouta's Zamalka town as people were preparing to flee ... A wounded man is carried following an air strike on the rebel-held besieged town of Arbin, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capitalÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 16, 2018
This week the Syrian crisis entered its eighth year. ... They must know already that a war of vengeance is a war without end, one in which everybody loses. ... Syria is a conflict characterized by regular breaches of international humanitarian law: sieges, blockades, disproportionate attacks in urban areas,Ãâà...
UNHCR
March 15, 2018
My thoughts are with Syrian families, who have played no part in the conflict and whose homes, livelihoods and hopes have been destroyed, and with everyone working bravely to save life and alleviate suffering inside Syria, in unimaginably difficult circumstances. Until there is peace in Syria, we must stayÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
The transfer of personnel from the Kurdish-led, American-backed militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or S.D.F., is a blow to Washington's effort ... the Y.P.G., which has carved out a zone of de facto autonomy from the Syrian government within Afrin and in a larger swath of northeastern Syria, lastÃâà...
FOX 61
March 4, 2018
Civilians checking their destroyed houses and belongings in Al-Asqalani neighborhood in Irbin town, Eastern Ghouta Syria. ... It is the first time the Syrian regime has announced territory control of Eastern Ghouta since launching an offensive on the rebel-held enclave on the outskirts of Damascus onÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
February 19, 2018
Resentment against Syrians living in Turkey is rising, particularly in the country's urban centers where most Syrians live, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned in a recent report. The ICG particularly flagged up the hard-scrabble Istanbul district of Sultangazi as a site where tensions are rising amidÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group also known as the White Helmets, said the Syrian government hit Irbin with chlorine gas, phosphorus bombs and napalm. This is the second alleged chemical attack in a matter of days. On Wednesday night, activists in residential the town of HamouriyahÃâà...
The National
December 31, 1999
Although the war has ended in Homs, Syria's third-largest city before the war, it persists in other parts of the country. The assault on Eastern Ghouta continues. Just this week, a report from Unicef detailed how last year was the worst year of the war for Syrian children; an entire generation is being scarred.
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