Displaced Syrians fear safety in aid camps
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Communities desperate as they are unable to cross into Turkey to seek refuge.
Russia is sending two planes to Lebanon on Tuesday to evacuate more than 100 of its citizens from Syria, the Emergencies Ministry said, in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for President Bashar al-Assad’s possible defeat.
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The State Department is publicly discounting claims made by its own diplomats about a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
The Syrian military used an exotic chemical weapon on rebels during an attack in the city of Homs, some U.S. diplomats now believe.
Two explosions tore through one of Syria's biggest universities on the first day of student exams on Tuesday, killing at least 52 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said.
Syria's civil war is unleashing a "staggering humanitarian crisis" on the Middle East as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee violence including gang rape, an international aid agency said on Monday.
Rebels seized control of one of Syria's largest helicopter bases on Friday, opposition sources said, in their first capture of a military airfield used by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Following suit with the US, Germany and the Netherlands have begun deployment of troops and Patriot missiles along the Syrian-Turkish border. Despite claims they will protect against a Syrian threat, some fear Turkey is now the real "security risk".
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"We never rejected a political solution ... but with whom should we talk? With those who have extremist ideology who only understand the language of terrorism? Or should we with negotiate puppets whom the West brought? ... We negotiate with the maste
An Israeli Arab who joined rebel fighters in Syria has told his family he and a friend are being held captive, their passports destroyed.
U.S. troops arrived in Turkey as part of a coalition that will operate Patriot missile defense batteries near the Syrian border, officials said.
More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.
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A Syrian warplane blasted a gas station near Damascus Wednesday, killing and wounding dozens of people and igniting a huge fire in what could be one of the bloodiest attacks in weeks during the 22-month civil war.
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More than 45,000 people have been killed in Syria since the outbreak in March 2011 of an anti-regime revolt that became a bloody insurgency after a brutal crackdown on dissent, a watchdog said Wednesday. “In all we have documented the deaths of 45
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Does this video from Al-Jazeera actually show that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons against the rebel forces thereby crossing Barack Obama's red-line? Or, was it created in an attempt to provoke an outside military response?
Syrian kidnappers have demanded $700,000 for the release of one Italian and two Russian civilians captured in Homs, officials said.
The west's bid to ramp up the war in Syria will simply escalate the killing. Only negotiation can stop the conflict spreading
Syrian government forces on Oct. 31 shelled a bakery in Al Atarib outside Aleppo, which had provided 30 tons of bread a day, serving 200,000 people.
Shortly before the deployment of two American Patriot missiles manned by 400 US servicemen for defending Turkey against Syria was announced Thursday, Dec. 13, Washington quietly recalled from Syrian waters.
To keep his small charity afloat in Aleppo where the cost of supplies have doubled and tripled in recent months, Abu Ahmad must cobble together funding from a range of donors that includes everyone from wealthy Syrian expatriates to charities in Euro
Syria's vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called for a negotiated settlement to save the country from ruin.
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