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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Trump’s Syria Strike Celebrated By ‘terrorists’
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said “terrorists are celebrating” US strikes on a Syrian airbase. His...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...