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  When a Syrian photographer put down his camera to save children after suicide attack

  World | April 19, 2017 19:05 IST

  The devastating photos show the photographer, identified as Abd Alkader Habak, crying on his knees near the body of the boy who he had tried to save few minutes earlier.

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  Explosion kills 100 during troubled population transfer near Syria's Aleppo

  World | April 16, 2017 7:54 IST

  Nearly hundred people were killed on Saturday when a deadly explosion targeted an evacuation point near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

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  At least 43 killed as blast hits buses evacuating Syrians

  World | April 15, 2017 21:38 IST

  At least 43 persons were killed on Saturday when a car bomb struck an area near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo where an evacuation operation was underway.

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  Misdirected US airstrike kills 18 allied fighters battling ISIS in Syria

  World | April 14, 2017 7:16 IST

  A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday.

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  Vladimir Putin, Rex Tillerson find very little to agree on Syria

  World | April 13, 2017 15:25 IST

  he diverging opinion between US and Russia over Syria came out in open when President Vladimir Putin and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met on Wednesday.

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  Trust between US-Russia deteriorated under Trump, says Putin

  World | April 12, 2017 18:38 IST

  The US has alleged that the Assad regime was behind the chemical attack last week on the town of Khan Sheikhun that left 87 civilians dead including children.

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  Russia accuses US of unlawful attack against Syrian forces

  World | April 12, 2017 16:41 IST

  Russia's top diplomat today accused the United States of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

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  Syria will pay heavy price if it uses chemical weapons again, warns US

  World | April 12, 2017 14:47 IST

  The United States has warned Syria that it will pay a very heavy price if Damascus used chemical weapons again.

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  US planning 'further provocations' in Syria, claims Russian President Putin

  World | April 12, 2017 8:50 IST

  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday claimed that the United States is planning "further provocations" in other locations in Syria including its capital Damascus.

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  Even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons against his people: White House

  World | April 12, 2017 9:35 IST

  Blasting Syrian President Bashar Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons against a rebel-controlled region of his own country, the White House on Tuesday said that Assad's behaviour was worse than that of Adolf Hitler , "who didn't even sink to us

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  Decision to bomb Syrian airbase was influenced by ‘heartbroken’ Ivanka: Eric Trump

  World | April 12, 2017 7:07 IST

  US President Donald Trump's son Eric has said that his father's decision to launch a missile attack on a Syrian airbase was influenced by the reaction of his sister Ivanka.

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  Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming, claims top US official

  World | April 11, 2017 11:19 IST

  The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

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  Warplanes strike Syrian town hit by chemical attack, 18 killed

  World | April 09, 2017 13:07 IST

  At least 18 people, including five children, were killed when warplanes on Saturday struck Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week.

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  Russia suspends communications hotline with Pentagon on Syria: Report

  World | April 08, 2017 18:50 IST

  Russia has reportedly suspended a communications hotline with Pentagon on Syria as the two countries clashed in United Nations over US missile strike in the war-torn country.

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  Syria missile strike: US, Russia clash in Security Council

  World | April 08, 2017 10:03 IST

  The United States and Russia launched scathing attacks on each other in the UN Security Council on Friday over the US missile attack on a Syrian airfield.

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  US, Russia on 'the verge of a military clash': Russian PM

  World | April 08, 2017 7:28 IST

  Russian Prime Minister on Friday said that the US missile strike in Syria has put Moscow and Washington "on the verge of a military clash."

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  Britain backs US missile attacks on Syrian air base

  World | April 07, 2017 14:44 IST

  The British government has backed the United States missile strikes on a Syrian air base, terming it as an ‘appropriate response’ to the incumbent President Bashar Assad’s chemical attack earlier this week.

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  US missile strike killed 4 soldiers, 6 civilians; nearly destroyed Syria base

  World | April 07, 2017 14:39 IST

  Last night, the US launched 59 cruise missiles into Syria in the first direct military attack by the country on President Bashar al-Assad's regime since the civil war began.

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  Syria strike a defining moment of nascent Trump presidency

  World | April 07, 2017 13:30 IST

  Almost precisely 20 years to the day since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) came into force, the United States has launched a military strike against Syria for using them against its own civilian population.

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  Syria decries 'aggression' as US launches cruise missiles, rebels welcome it

  World | April 07, 2017 12:22 IST

  A military official quoted on Syrian TV said that an air base in central Syria was hit early Friday, causing material damage.