Tag: Syria
Syria’s UN ambassador says US support for IS evident after strikes...
Syria’s UN ambassador accused the United States on Sunday of seeking the failure of a ceasefire in his country and backing the Islamic State...
Russian army says US-led coalition has killed 60 Syrian soldiers in...
More than 60 Syrian government soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes on an airbase in the...
‘Coalition raid’ hits Syria army as truce wavers
The US-led coalition admitted it may have hit a Syrian army position Saturday as Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council...
Syria truce extended for 48 hours, aid deliveries still on hold
A fragile truce in Syria has been extended for 48 hours under an agreement between Moscow and Washington, but there was still no sign...
Turkish bombardment kills 20 civilians in Syria
Turkish shelling and air strikes killed at least 20 civilians in Syria on Sunday, the fifth day of an incursion against Islamic State group...
Barrel bombing kills 11 children in Syria’s Aleppo
Eleven children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria’s Aleppo city,...
China state media casts doubt on Syria Omran video
China’s state broadcaster has questioned the authenticity of the video of Syrian boy Omran which went viral worldwide, alleging it may have been faked...
Syria: A case of viral pictures, brutal war, apathetic world
Each day the horror show that is Syria gets worse
Social media is an interesting beast where things often go ‘viral’ and when that happens,...
Video of small boy saved from Aleppo rubble sparks social media...
Video of a small boy, bloodied and covered in dust, who was rescued after an apparent air strike in the Syrian city of Aleppo,...
Children in Syria’s Madaya await urgent medical help
Eyes closed against the searing light, a 10-year-old with meningitis writhes in agony on a bed in Syria’s besieged town of Madaya as his...
Islamic State frees hundreds of ‘human shields’ in Syria
Islamic State group has released hundreds of civilians they used as human shields while fleeing a crumbling stronghold in northern Syria, however, the fate...
Hunger a weapon of war in Syria, Yemen, Nigeria
While grain silos in many Western countries may overflow this winter, tens of millions of people risk going without food as hunger is being...
Danish warplanes drop first bombs against IS in Syria
Danish warplanes bombed Syria for the first time, its military said on Friday, as Denmark extended its fight against the militant Islamic State (IS)...
Obama says Putin can’t be trusted on Syria
US President Barack Obama stated that he was “not confident” that Russia and President Vladimir Putin could be trusted as partners in trying to...
Why do Europeans join ISIS?
Why do Europeans join ISIS or ISIL? That’s a question that keeps coming up and bewilders governments, intelligence agencies, and counter-terrorism experts alike.
One of...
Kerry meets Russia’s Lavrov on Syria cooperation plan
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, met on Tuesday to discuss a U.S. proposal for closer military cooperation...
Road to defeating ISIS goes through the internet
In post-Saddam Iraq, the Nouri al-Maliki regime’s sectarian policies only helped ISIS flourish in the country. The Sunnis were completely marginalised, and as a...
