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AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Washington threatened on Wednesday to increase support for Syria's rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders.
A new Fox News poll finds that nearly a quarter of voters (23 percent) thinks the U.S. should get more involved because it's a humanitarian crisis and Syria is a strategically important country. However, nearly three times as many, 68 percent, say the ...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has shut its side of the last border crossing with Syria still controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's government, stepping up security following two deadly bombings this month.
A Syrian man walks past destruction in the northern city of Aleppo on March 22, 2013. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty). The previously undisclosed effort was authorized by the White House, and is now being prepared by the State Department in conjunction with ...
HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel is poised for a large-scale assault on Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel's air force chief said on Wednesday.
For the first time, the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been fighting Syrian troops backed by a large contingent of battle-hardened guerrillas from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese Shia movement. Assad ...
But as the civil war in Syria has spiraled over 26 months, with reportedly more than 94,000 people killed and 1.5 million refugees in neighboring countries, Sunni extremist networks like Belkacem's are thought to be radicalizing youth and pipelining ...
In a bipartisan rebuke of the Obama administration's Syria policy, almost all the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Tuesday to authorize arming moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. Nic6211706. Rebel fighters from the Al-Ezz ...
Torn apart by the construction of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in the 1940s and then left for dead by the building of the World Trade Center a quarter-century later, the once-thriving Syrian quarter of Lower Manhattan is now disappearing from living ...
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Galloway, who opposes his country's decision to support some rebel groups in Syria, seems to be arguing that those rebels are akin to the machete attackers.
By some tallies more than 30 of its fighters have perished since May 19th, as the group backs the Syrian regime in a battle to retake Qusayr, a rebel stronghold close to the border with Lebanon.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - In another day of fierce fighting in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, government forces backed by fighters from the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah continued their offensive on Tuesday against rebels who have long held the town.
MUSCAT, Oman - As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese supporters of rival factions in Syria's civil war battled overnight in the city of Tripoli in the worst such bout of spillover violence since the conflict started two years ago.
AMMAN - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad risks increasing international support for his opponents if he does not agree to take part in peace talks.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on Wednesday, to make “a commitment to find peace in his country,” ahead of a the Friends of Syria bloc meeting in Amman. Speaking at a press conference with the Jordanian ...
The news out of Syria has been one long, terrible stream of horror and atrocities. But even in the midst of war, the country's fighters have been captured putting aside their weapons for an afternoon tea.
Syria's opposition and government are preparing to take part in an internationally-sponsored peace conference, according to Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations-Arab League mediator.
This week, we're exploring how lessons learned from U.S. intervention and non-intervention in foreign conflicts can inform policy decisions toward Syria today. Robert Siegel talks with Chester Crocker, formerly assistant secretary of state for African ...
While Washington has called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and not to use chemical weapons against his opponents, it has done little to respond to his failure to comply on either count.
