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gulfnews.com
April 29, 2018
Eastern Ghouta fell after a brutal military operation and a series of similar evacuation deals brokered by regime ally Russia that saw tens of thousands of residents bussed to northern Syria. More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011 with aÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
April 29, 2018
People walk in a street during a media tour in Douma near Damascus, Syria April 23, 2018. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho Monzer Shekally, a senior at the University of Iowa, at The Gazette in Iowa City on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) School children are seen in front of their school inÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 29, 2018
The Syrian government and rebels have reached a deal to evacuate opposition fighters from an area of southern Damascus near the site of a ... More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011 with a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.
The Guardian
April 21, 2018
The US, British and French missile strikes designed to punish Assad for the use of chemical weapons have done nothing to slow the advance of his forces, now in their strongest position since the early months of the seven-year war. Efforts to investigate the chemical attack in Douma on 7 April have beenÃâà...
Xinhua
April 21, 2018
SYRIA-DAMASCUS-DOUMA-WAR-AFTERMATH. A Syrian man walks through the damaged street in Douma district, east of the capital Damascus, Syria, on April 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Hummam Sheikh Ali)Ãâà...
Enab Baladi
April 21, 2018
“A child, about three years old, wearing a red t-shirt and shorts,” the policeman Bassam said to the Head of the Police Department in the al-Qanawat neighborhood in the capital Damascus, stressing that a telegram must be generalized about a lost child, who passersby had brought to the department.
Express.co.uk
April 16, 2018
Instead Dr Thiel argued the Saturday missile strike set the stage for later events to occur – namely the destruction of Damascus and the US by a European Power which will serve as a catalyst for World War Three. All of this will supposedly happen just before the Great Tribulation, a period of intense famine,Ãâà...
The Japan Times
April 16, 2018
On April 13 in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an attack against Syria's chemical weapon targets. Simultaneously in Japan, I was supervising a 24-hour war game on a crisis in the Korean Peninsula. This policy simulation event was organized by the Canon Institute for Global StudiesÃâà...
CNN
April 10, 2018
As US President Donald Trump promised to respond "forcefully" within "24 or 48 hours," people on the streets of Damascus went about daily life. And Syrian ... With the specter of an imminent US strike looming, Damascenes CNN spoke with said an attack couldn't be worse than the last seven years of war.
New York Times
April 9, 2018
It followed a vow by President Trump to respond to an apparent chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government near Damascus on Saturday. It did not appear to have been in response to that event, raising the possibility that Israel had merely seized the opportunity to take out what it saw as a threat toÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 25, 2018
After my parents fled the war in Syria for Egypt in 2013, they did their best to recreate their old life. My mother, a stellar cook and hostess, arranged the living room in their new home in Cairo to resemble the one they'd left in Damascus, filling an elegant bowl on the coffee table with little chocolates wrappedÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2018
The song, a moving lament for those who've left their homeland behind, seemed a fitting choice for Bitar and the other musicians assembled one crisp morning at Damascus' opera house. As the last remaining members of the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, they have watched seven years of civil warÃâà...
BBC News
March 20, 2018
At least 35 civilians have been killed in a rocket attack on a busy market in a government-held district of Syria's capital Damascus, state media report. Rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region fired the rockets at Kashkoul, police told the Sana news agency. Six other civilians were injured in a separateÃâà...
WSB Atlanta
March 15, 2018
At least 26 civilians were killed Hamouria on Wednesday, the Observatory said earlier. The Syrian government, backed by its allies Iran and Russia, is determined to retake control of the once farming region just outside the Damascus, after seven years of war and bloodletting that has killed over 450,000Ãâà...
Express.co.uk
March 13, 2018
... troops if US strikes Damascus. RUSSIA has issued a chilling warning to US President Donald Trump as the Syrian conflict threatens to spiral out of control as the Kremlin warned “Attack Damascus and we'll attack you”. By Ciaran McGrath. PUBLISHED: 18:28, Tue, Mar 13, 2018 | UPDATED: 18:50, Tue, Mar 13, 2018Ãâà...
The Local Germany
March 7, 2018
AfD lawmakers travel to 'normal' Damascus in attempt to encourage refugee returns ... Lawmakers from Germany's far-right AfD party were in Syria on Tuesday, expressing "surprise" at scenes of normal life in Damascus as they push their bid for Berlin to start sending refugees back to the war-torn country.
Aljazeera.com
March 6, 2018
Described as the "bloodiest" day since a Russian-sponsored truce failed to stop the onslaught and since a UN Security Council resolution was unsuccessful at implementing a 30-day ceasefire, Syrian government forces resumed the shelling of the Damascus suburb for the 16th consecutive day on TuesdayÃâà...
PRI
February 27, 2018
That being said, Naamat is sympathetic to Adam's hesitancy to forgive those who killed his friends and family. “We [in Damascus] can say the same thing. How can we forget those people who have killed our families, killed our friends? I have also lost loved ones,” she says. “If we don't forgive, this war isÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 25, 2018
Syria has been an obstacle to the long anticipated war with Iran for both the U.S. and Israel. There has been an economic war on Iran which has been in effect since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 with continued economic sanctions imposed primarily by the U.S. Their main objective is to ultimately turn IranÃâà...
BBC News
February 7, 2018
Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at a Syrian military position near the capital, Damascus, Syrian media report. A Syrian military statement said its air defence systems blocked most of the missiles, but gave no further details. A monitor said ammunition depots in Jamraya were hit. It is the location of aÃâà...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT: Syrian regime air strikes have killed six civilians in southern Damascus where government forces are fighting the Daesh group, a war monitor said Wednesday. The six, including two men and their wives, were killed in the strikes on the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk late Tuesday, the SyrianÃâà...
Vox
December 31, 1999
“Right now, this is a one-time shot,” Mattis said, “designed to set back the Syrian war machine's ability to produce chemical weapons.” He did note ... Assad is winning the war in Syria and has now turned his attention to retaking parts of the country he lost, especially the areas outside Damascus. A centralÃâà...
Irish Times
December 31, 1999
My driver Moutaz was upbeat during the drive from Beirut to Damascus. “My brother's son has come home after seven years in the army. I know of other soldiers also. Petrol is cheaper. The [Syrian] pound is 445 instead of 500 to the dollar.” Cars crept past the checkpoint at the entrance to the capital and weÃâà...
Express.co.uk
December 31, 1999
The first target was the scientific research centre located in the greater Damascus area. “This military facility was the Syrian centre for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological warfare technology. “The second target was a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs.
CBS News
December 31, 1999
DAMASCUS, Syria -- President Trump may punish the Assad regime for an apparent chemical weapons attack that was carried out against civilians in Syria. While the threat of a U.S. military strike may be on minds there, it's not showing much. Medical student Khaled al-Anaz, 23, says he hasn't doneÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Syria's campaign in Eastern Ghouta has drawn international condemnation and an emergency UN ceasefire quickly failed to reign in its offensive on the Damascus suburb. The Syrian government has faced accusations of indiscriminate bombing of civilians, targeting of medical facilities and emergencyÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
18, the Assad regime and its Russian allies abruptly ramped up attacks, launching one of the most intense bombing campaigns yet seen in a war that has become a complex patchwork of overlapping global interests. Turkey is fighting Kurdish forces in the north, Iran is building military bases in the south, while RussianÃâà...
