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Circus Arts Help Syrian Children Make New Life

Laughter rings out and there is an atmosphere of excitement and joyful chaos. Children are perched on stilts, others...

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US Steps Up Pressure On Syria Ahead of Russia Talks

The United States stepped up pressure Sunday on Russia to rein in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning that any...

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Assad Allies Vow Reprisals Against Aggression On Syria

A site hit by airstrikes on Tuesday in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib Allies of Damascus have...

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US Envoy Says Syria’s Assad Must Go After ‘chemical Attack’

Washington's UN ambassador said that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad cannot stay in power after a suspected chemical...

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Top US Diplomat Haley Says No Syria Peace With Assad

Coming closer to embracing regime change in Syria, the US ambassador to the United Nations said that with President...

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Defeating IS Is ‘first Priority’ In Syria

The top priority for the United States in Syria is to defeat the Islamic State group even before stabilizing the...

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Strike Kills 18 Civilians In Syria’s Idlib

An air strike killed 18 civilians including five children in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, the...

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Trump’s Syria Strike Celebrated By ‘terrorists’, Iran Says

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has said "terrorists are celebrating" US strikes on a Syrian airbase. His comments echo...

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Trump’s Syria Strike Celebrated By ‘terrorists’

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said “terrorists are celebrating” US strikes on a Syrian airbase. His...

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Iraqi Shiite Cleric Sadr Urges Assad To Step Down

Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling...

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Iran’s Rouhani Says Trump Abetting Syria ‘terrorists’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that "terrorists" were applauding his US counterpart Donald Trump for...

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Syria Grows Increasingly Volatile For US Forces

Friday's strike on a Syrian airbase marks the first direct US attack on the Damascus regime, raising questions about...

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Jets Launch Raids From Syria Base Hit By US

Two warplanes took off from a central Syrian airbase Friday hours after it was struck by US missiles and carried out...

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Why Would Syria Mount ‘chemical Attack’?

While Western powers have blamed Syria's regime for this week's suspected chemical attack, questions remain over why it...

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After US Strikes, Syria Attack Victims Dream of Assad Ouster

Emerging dazed but well after three days of treatment in Turkey following the suspected chemical attack in Syria, Ahmad...

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Syria Was Warned of US Strike Threat

Syria's armed forces were warned about the threat of American military action hours before the US strike on the Shayrat...

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Syria ‘chemical Attack’ Survivors Welcome US Strike

In the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, site of an alleged chemical weapons attack, residents still mourning their dead on...

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Four Children Among Nine Civilians Dead In US Syria Strike

A US missile strike targeting an airbase in central Syria killed nine civilians, including four children, on Friday,...

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US Launches Cruise Missiles On Syrian Airbase

The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a government-controlled airbase in Syria, in retaliation...