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Chemical weapons watchdog blames Syria’s air force for deadly 2018 chlorine attack
An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people. A report published Friday by a team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons offered the latest confirmation that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons during his country’s grinding civil war.
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Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified
Campaign disseminating disinformation sent thousands of tweets, often targeting the White Helmets
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Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal
After a rookie militiaman secretly watched a video of 41 people being brutally killed, he knew he had to get the horrific images to the outside world
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Syrian refugees welcomed to Canada return the favour to Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion
This week marks the 11th anniversary of the start of the Syrian civil war. Looking back at more than a decade of war, many members of Manitoba's Syrian community are painfully reminded of its effects as they witness the devastating invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops.
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‘We need help’: Snowstorm brings more misery for Syrian IDPs
Dozens of families in an IDP camp in northwestern Syria have been trapped for two days amid a winter storm.
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Assad regime imposes blockade on 40,000 people in Syria's Daraa
Assad regime forces have been blockading a crowded neighborhood in an opposition-held district in northern Syria for eight days, a report said Friday. The...
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How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
Just before sunrise in Istanbul on 11 November 2019, a determined thumping on her iron front door stirred Emma Winberg from a brief sleep. Blurry-eyed, she grasped at the empty space in bed next to her, pulled on a pair of trousers, fumbled with a bedside lamp, then ran across the bedsit to the kitchen next door. “James wasn’t there,” she said. “And that’s when I just knew.”
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Turkey says will not stop Syrian refugees reaching Europe after troops killed
Refugees in Turkey headed towards European frontiers on Friday after an official declared that borders had been thrown open in response to the escalating war in Syria, a day after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government troops.
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800,000 Syrians Have Fled in Three Months. This Is What it Looks Like.
Some crowd into trucks. Others go on foot. The current Syrian migration is similar in scale to the Rohingya crisis in 2017.
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Maggots could be sent to Syria by UK to help clean wounds
The UK government is taking part in a pioneering international aid project which could see consignments of maggots sent to crisis zones such as Syria as a simple and effective way to clean wounds, it has been announced.
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Turkey and Russia made a deal against U.S. - The Baltic Word
Opinion - Turkey and Russia made a deal against U.S. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to inaugurate a new gas pipeline TurkStream, which brings Russian gas to Turkey and southern Europe via the Black Sea. Putin arrived late on Tuesday after paying a surprise visit to Syria (a key Iran ally).
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Hundreds of thousands flee in Syrian rebel region
The UN says a government advance on rebel-held Idlib has had
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Man who filmed beheading of Syrian identified as Russian mercenary
Russian who filmed prisoner being tortured to death worked for firm with links to Kremlin
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Iraq says U.S. forces withdrawing from Syria have no approval to stay
U.S. forces that crossed into Iraq as part of a pull-out from Syria do not have permission to stay and can only be there in transit, the Iraqi military said on Tuesday.
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Trump touts Turkey cease-fire: 'Sometimes you have to let them fight'
At a campaign rally in Dallas Thursday night, President Trump lauded the cease-fire that Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reached with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the same day.
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Kurds reach deal with Damascus in face of Turkish offensive
Agreement to hand over border towns comes after more than 700 Isis affiliates escape camp
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Mattis: ISIS will surge back after Trump's Syria withdrawal
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said ISIS "will resurge" in Syria, in his first public comments following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of troops from the region. "I think Secretary of State Pompeo, the intelligence services, the foreign countries that are working with us have it about right that ISIS is not defeated. We have got to keep the pressure on ISIS so they don't recover," Mattis said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" set to air Sunday.
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As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, Turkey may be sinking deeper in the Syrian conflict.
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They fought alongside the US for five years to be bombed by US NATO ally
Like thieves in the night US forces withdrew from their positions, without explanation, processes, discussions, or leaving behind people to monitor the area.
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The US withdrawal from northern Syria creates the perfect conditions for war crimes | Simon Tisdall
Erdoğan aims to expel refugees and force Kurdish forces away from Turkey, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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