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US will hit Assad if chemical arms used, Bolton warns RussiaThe US has told Russia it is ready to take strong military action against Syria if President Bashar Al Assad uses chemical weapons to recapture one of his country’s last rebel-held areas, reported Bloomberg citing four peop More… |
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Syrian govt forces step up Aleppo offensiveForces backing Syrian President Bashar Assad pressed their offensive on Tuesday on Aleppo's rebel-held zone from the south, after capturing areas on other fronts in recent days, a report said. With new reinforcements, the stra More… |
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Assad tasks minister with forming new govtSyria's President Bashar al-Assad tasked the country's Electricity Minister Emad Khamis with forming a new government on Wednesday, state news agency SANA reported. It gave no immediate reason for the formation of a new ca More… |
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US diplomats urge military strikes against Syria's AssadMore than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government to stop its persistent violations of a civil war cease-f More… |
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IS advances near Turkish border, civilians trappedIslamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said. The hardli More… |
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Powers fail to agree new date for Syria peace talksMajor power foreign ministers failed to agree a new date to resume Syrian peace talks at a meeting on Tuesday, and the opposition said it would not come back to Geneva negotiations unless conditions improved on the ground. A pessi More… |
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Syria war could spark confrontation between powersThe chance of unintentional confrontation between foreign powers involved in Syria has risen as its five-year-old conflict turns into a proxy war influenced by increasingly engaged outside powers, a European think-tank said on Wednesday. More… |
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Assad holds election as peace talks resumeSyrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on Wednesday in what they called a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad, while his opponents and Western powers denounced the poll as illegitimate. More… |
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Syrian opposition rejects bid to delay peace talksThe Syrian opposition said it rejected any attempt by the government to delay the next round of peace talks until after a parliamentary election on April 13 and urged Russia to press its ally into serious talks on a political transition. More… |
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Russia to pull out of SyriaPresident Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as UN-mediated talks resumed on ending the More… |
