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Business Insider
April 17, 2018
"If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the US responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved," Israel's Ynetnews quoted a senior defense official as saying. "But if there was another objective — such as paralyzing the ability to launchÃâà...
CNN
April 17, 2018
A second administration official noted that "we have seen a consistent pattern of the Syrian regime resorting to the use of chemical weapons." The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, told the Security Council on Friday that the US assesses that Assad "has used chemical weapons in the Syrian war atÃâà...
Mother Jones
April 17, 2018
Only 11 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States this year, down from more than 2,400 during the same period in 2017, even though Syria remains convulsed by a civil war that reached another crisis point this month when President Bashar al-Assad's regime appeared to attack the city ofÃâà...
CNN
April 14, 2018
Another administration official laid out evidence on Saturday for the United States' conclusion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government was behind the chemical weapons attack; that included eyewitness accounts of Syrian government helicopters circling the site of the attack on April 7 andÃâà...
CNN
April 14, 2018
Two US officials tell CNN's Jim Sciutto a military reaction is not the end of the US response to Syria's chemical weapons attacks, with a senior administration official saying "this isn't over." Source: CNN Ãâ÷ CNN Original Series on CNNgo. Watch Full episode on. Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown.
ABC News
March 25, 2018
This photo released Saturday, March 24, 2018, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation by buses of rebel fighters and their families in Arbeen, in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saysÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 15, 2018
The fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has slowed in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, McKenzie said. Some Syrian Democratic Forces have moved from the battle in the south to Afrin, where Turkish forces have surrounded Kurdish SDF forces. “That has had an effect on our ability to finish offÃâà...
UN News
March 13, 2018
“In 2017, documentation of violations of children's rights during the conflict – by all sides – was the highest since the beginning of the conflict. Simply put, 2017 was the deadliest year of the Syrian war for children,” Mr. Moumtzis told the Council. The Syria Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism verified that inÃâà...
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 week by the government to facilitate evacuations, a United Nations official said. The official, who entered the area with a relief convoy earlier this week, addedÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
March 5, 2018
AMMAN, March 5 (KUNA) -- An aid convoy crossed into Syria's eastern Ghouta on Monday, after a ceasefire was concluded in the enclave, said the UN ... Earlier today, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Syrian authorities had removed up to 70 percent of the medical supplies from the UNÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
March 5, 2018
A senior United Nations official in Syria, who is accompanying an aid convoy attempting to enter the besieged eastern Ghouta area, told Reuters on ... that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told ReutersÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 5, 2018
Dozens of aid convoys entered Syria's eastern Ghouta on Monday, bringing the first relief to the besieged enclave since one of the deadliest government assaults of the seven-year war began two weeks ago. A World Health Organisation (WHO) official said government authorities had stripped most medicalÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 5, 2018
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has requested that German authorities detain and extradite a Syrian Kurdish politician wanted in the country, Turkish officials and reports said Monday. Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Turkey asked Germany to extradite Salih Muslim, the former co-chair of theÃâà...
NPR
March 1, 2018
"North Korea has a sordid history of supplying rogue states like Syria with weapons of mass destruction technology for cash," Andrew C. Weber, a former top Pentagon nonproliferation official told The Washington Post. "Given its large and growing arsenal of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons andÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
The Turkish attack on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria is likely to have the same devastating outcome as the Syrian army siege of Eastern Ghouta, destroying everything but failing to capture the area, says a senior Syrian Kurdish leader. The official says it was inevitable that Afrin would comeÃâà...
Axios
March 1, 2018
Israel is concerned by what it sees as a policy difference with the U.S. on countering Iranian military entrenchment in Syria, officials say. The issue is going to be discussed again in the White House meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump on Monday. The bottom line: A senior Israeli official whoÃâà...
AzerNews
February 20, 2018
Countries that supported Turkey in the fight against Islamic State terrorist organization (ISIS) don't support Ankara in its struggle against PYD/YPG terrorists in Syrian Afrin, Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Omar Celik said on Feb. 20 according to Turkish media. The EU states and some other countries don't wantÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 19, 2018
"This comes in the framework of supporting residents and defending the territorial unity and sovereignty of Syria," the agency added. A senior Kurdish official said on Sunday Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the canton, which wasÃâà...
CBS News
February 8, 2018
"Pro-regime" forces that attacked a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) headquarters in northeastern Syria -- and were hit in return by U.S. airstrikes -- included Russian mercenaries, according to a Pentagon official. If Russians are among those who were killed, this would mark the first time a U.S. airstrike hasÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
The request from the OPCW Technical Secretariat to the Syrian government was announced just as Russia was telling the U.N. Security Council it would put two draft resolutions on Syria to a vote on Tuesday, after rejecting a similar proposal from the U.S. following an angry debate at the council Monday.
