Sectarian violence in Syria has been less intense than feared since Assad's ouster
The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...
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Hopes raised in Syria as sectarian violence lesser than expected
The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that all Syrians might live cooperatively and peacefully in a new ...
Russia’s Abrupt Setback in Syria Creates Headaches for Putin
For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...
How Putin’s friends plundered Syria before fleeing the country
When his Russian bosses and the mercenaries protecting them finally left, Homam Kasouha walked into the plant’s head office ...
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Libya PM warns of ‘battlefield’ amid reported Russia weapons transfers
Russia is reportedly moving military equipment from Syria’s Tartus naval base and Khmeimim air base to eastern Libya after ...
Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
A military official at al-Khadim air base in eastern Libya said that a half-dozen Russian planes — some coming from Russia ...
Why Syria’s reconstruction may depend on the fate of its minorities
The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for ...
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Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city
Syria's military said it had carried out a "temporary troop withdrawal" in Aleppo to prepare for a counteroffensive against "terrorists". And it admitted insurgents had entered large parts of the ...
Israel Vows to Complete Syria Bombing in 'Very Short Time'
Israel said it had wiped out the vast majority of the Syrian military's assets, including huge chunks of its air-defense ...
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At least 7 people injured in Israeli shelling of Syria’s Tartus province — report
TUNIS, December 17. /TASS/. At least seven people, all of them civilians, suffered injuries in Israeli airstrikes on military sites in the Syrian province of Tartus, the Syrian newspaper Al Watan ...
Syria War Monitor Says Heavy Israeli Strikes Hit Coastal Region
Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years.
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Insurgents reach gates of Syria's capital, threatening to upend decades of Assad rule
The loss of Homs is a potentially crippling blow for Assad. It stands at an important intersection between Damascus, the capital, and Syria's coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus — the Syrian ...