Syria
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No more US strikes on Syrian Army, Russia assures Assad govt
World | Apr 20, 2017, 07:54 AM ISTRussia has assured the Bashar al-Assad government that there will be no more US strikes on Syrian military positions, according to Syria's presidential advisor Buthaina Shaba'an.
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When a Syrian photographer put down his camera to save children after suicide attack
World | Apr 19, 2017, 07:05 PM ISTThe 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 | Apr 16, 2017, 07:54 AM ISTNearly 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 | Apr 15, 2017, 09:38 PM ISTAt 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 | Apr 14, 2017, 07:16 AM ISTA 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 | Apr 13, 2017, 03:25 PM ISThe 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 | Apr 12, 2017, 06:38 PM ISTThe 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 | Apr 12, 2017, 04:41 PM ISTRussia'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 | Apr 12, 2017, 02:47 PM ISTThe 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 | Apr 12, 2017, 08:50 AM ISTRussian 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 | Apr 12, 2017, 09:35 AM ISTBlasting 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 | Apr 12, 2017, 07:07 AM ISTUS 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 | Apr 11, 2017, 11:19 AM ISTThe 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 | Apr 09, 2017, 01:07 PM ISTAt 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 | Apr 08, 2017, 06:50 PM ISTRussia 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 | Apr 08, 2017, 10:03 AM ISTThe 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 | Apr 08, 2017, 07:28 AM ISTRussian 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 | Apr 07, 2017, 02:44 PM ISTThe 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 | Apr 07, 2017, 02:39 PM ISTLast 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 | Apr 07, 2017, 01:30 PM ISTAlmost 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.