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The News
March 31, 2018
It is sickening that over 167 White Helmet volunteers have lost their lives as they try to rescue survivors as a result of being deliberately targeted by pro-regime forces in double-tap strikes.' Since the war began, the UK has committed Ãâã2.46bn to Syria, its largest contribution to any humanitarian crisis, MsÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 30, 2018
Seven years of Syria's civil war: What Brookings experts are saying ... On Friday, March 23, a panel of Brookings experts discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria. Listen to the event here. Seven years after the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, the country remains mired in conflict.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 29, 2018
This March is the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian civil war. Since then, some 400,000 have been killed, and over 5.5 million refugees have streamed out of Syria; millions more have lost their homes. Over a million Syrian refugees live in Jordan, thousands of them in sprawling refugeeÃâà...
Borgen Project
March 27, 2018
Due to heavy bombing in many parts of Syria like Aleppo, Homs and Daraya, a further 400,000 civilians still remain trapped in major rebel enclaves throughout Syria. Recently, the Syrian Civil War has become the battleground for a number of different fronts, including U.S. coalition forces, Sunni ArabÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 26, 2018
Syrian refugees wait outside their shelters in late January at Zaatari camp near Mafraq, Jordan. The U.S. has a responsibility to help Jordan and stop the war in Syria, human rights advocate Kerry Kennedy said in a meeting with Nobel laureates. (Credit: Muhammad Hamed/Reuters via CNS.)Ãâà...
Business Insider
March 19, 2018
Following is a transcript of the video. Andrew Parasiliti: Russia takes a broader view of what it considers to be terrorist groups than the United States does. Why Russia is so involved with the Syrian Civil War. Parasiliti: I tend to find that Russia's interests in Syria are pretty clear and they are as follows: One,Ãâà...
The Atlantic
March 15, 2018
Before the civil war, the country was, by Arab standards, solidly middle income. It is estimated that it will ... “It's very difficult for us, as Syrians, who have watched this from the beginning of the revolution. For us it feels like ... “That threatens to morph the Syrian civil war into the Syria war,” he said. “This is veryÃâà...
TIME
March 12, 2018
On March 15, Syria will face the seventh anniversary of its civil war. More than 400,000 Syrians have died, according to most estimates. Well over 11 million have been pushed out of their homes, often to refugee camps in neighboring nations. Millions of Syrians live in refugee camps in surroundingÃâà...
BBC News
March 10, 2018
Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam has agreed to evacuate jihadist fighters being held in its prisons in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a statement says. The group says the decision was made in consultation with a delegation that entered with a UN aid convoy. The Syrian government has stepped up efforts toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 4, 2018
He said the series had been discussed on Syrian state TV as well as Orient, a pro-opposition network station: "They've never agreed on anything except on this show. Part of its success is that Syrians feel it talks about human stories. It leaves it to the audience to choose their point of view, and not call thisÃâà...
NPR
March 4, 2018
It's become a frontline between rebel forces and the Syrian regime, making living conditions unbearable. Hope has faded that a cease-fire put in place last week could bring relief to civilians there, as there are reports of Syrian forces seizing a quarter of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta today. In the last two weeksÃâà...
BBC News
March 3, 2018
In northern Syria, on a different front of the country's seven-year civil war, Turkey says it has captured a Kurdish town in the northern region of Afrin. At least 36 pro-Syrian government troops - sent to support Kurdish forces - are said to have died in a Turkish air strike. Turkey launched a military offensive inÃâà...
Vox
February 28, 2018
“Siege, starve, and surrender”: inside the next phase of the Syrian civil war ... Jennifer Cafarella, a Syria expert at the Institute for the Study of War, says that Assad is trying to “recapture every square inch of Syrian territory. ... At the time, it was one of the biggest and most horrific attacks in the civil war.
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 27, 2018
The Islamic State began as a split within Jabhat al-Nusra, with al-Qaida-loyal leaders in Syria fighting with those loyal to al-Qaida's supposed affiliate in Iraq. The Islamic State itself fought against a range of other Islamist groups in Syria, some of which overlapped ideologically with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi'sÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 21, 2018
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor estimates that more than 250 have been killed in the Russia-backed assault since Sunday night. Some 400,000 men, women and children are estimated to remain in the last rebel stronghold close to Damascus, Assad's seat of power.
TIME
February 16, 2018
But with the breach of Israeli airspace by perennial foe Iran, Israel was forced to respond, launching an airstrike on Syrian and Iranian military positions. The Syrians shot down an Israeli jet (the first Israeli jet to be downed by an enemy since 1982), and the Israelis continued to hit numerous military positionsÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
December 31, 1999
THE ISSUE: The military and humanitarian crisis in Syria continues and is growing more complicated every day. The conflict includes a wide array of actors, each of which have different and often conflicting incentives and priorities in the region. As it becomes increasingly clear that the Bashar Assad regimeÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The Syrian civil war, which began with a crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrators by President Bashar al-Assad's government forces in 2011, has resulted in the deaths of more than 465,000 Syrians. More than a million people have been injured and at least 12 million have been forced to leave theirÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Medics in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area of Syria say an attack on Sunday initially suspected to have involved chlorine did not use toxic gas. ... The attack targeted the town of Hammoria and led to the evacuation of dozens of civilians, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, whose volunteer rescueÃâà...
The National
December 31, 1999
The implications of the Syrian civil war for the wider world are on display in Idlib. Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has vowed to advance to Idlib after his forces took control of Afrin. The tragic lesson of Syria is that military successes do not result in peace but rather prompt the victors to wage yetÃâà...
