Trump Freezes Syria Aid Funds, Sends Mixed Messages On Anti-ISIS Strategy
The White House has ordered the State Department to put on hold $200 million in recovery funds to Syria, following President Trump’s remarks last week…
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Report: 23 Palestinians killed in Syria last month
Twenty-three Palestinians were killed in Syria during March, according to the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, a London-based human rights watchdog that monitors the…
Islamic State Regroups in Syria
Since Turkey, a NATO member, launched its Afrin offensive against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG)—a main U.S. ally in the fight against IS—U.S. officials…
Syria monitors: IS militants seize Damascus neighborhood
BEIRUT – A Syrian war monitoring group says Islamic State militants have captured a largely vacant neighborhood in Damascus following intense fighting with pro-government forces….
DoD Spokesman Urges Focus on Humanitarian Issues, Defeating ISIS in Syria
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2018 — As the Syrian Democratic Forces continue to develop their defensive positions against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in…
Rebels in Syria’s eastern Ghouta discussing ceasefire with UN – statement
The main rebel group in the southern pocket of Syria’s opposition-held eastern Ghouta has said it is negotiating with a United Nations delegation about a…
Turkey says civilians can leave Syrian city of Afrin via corridor as he turns up heat on offensive
Turkey’s president has said civilians will be led out of the Syrian enclave of Afrin through a “special corridor”, as he turned up the heat…
How Syria’s war changed the world
(CNN)Imad arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina on an overcast spring afternoon in 2015. He and his family of seven had fled their home…
Al-Qaida in Syria losing ground in battles with insurgents
For the first time since its meteoric rise in 2012 amid the chaos of war, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria is in retreat, battling rival militant groups in…
Pentagon braces for emboldened Iran after Syria gains
America’s top military commander in the Middle East told Congress today that President Bashar al-Assad’s recent gains in the Syrian civil war will enhance Iran’s…