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In a courtroom in the western German city of Koblenz, a former high-ranking Syrian intelligence officer, charged with crimes against humanity, will go to trial on Thursday.

Suspects In Syrian Crimes Against Humanity Trial Will Face Accusers In German Court

Apr 22, 2020
In a first, Syrian witnesses and plaintiffs, some of whom survived torture in a Damascus prison, will see a former high-ranking Syrian official in court on charges of crimes against humanity.
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Middle East
A U.S. court has ordered the Syrian government to pay $300 million for killing American journalist Marie Colvin in 2012. Colvin is seen here in London in 2010.

U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin

Jan 31, 2019
The judge ruled that Colvin was killed by Syria and "targeted because of her profession, for the purpose of silencing those reporting on the growing opposition movement in the country."
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Middle East
American troops look toward the border with Turkey from a small outpost near the town of Manbij, northern Syria, in February.

White House Orders Pentagon To Pull U.S. Troops From Syria

Dec 19, 2018
U.S. troops have been in Syria since late 2015. The move is a reversal of U.S. policy: Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said troops would stay to stabilize the country.
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Then-Chief Prosecutor Stephen Rapp (right) is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2009. He says there's even more evidence against the Assad regime than the successful war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and S

With Syria's War Nearly Over, Victims Take The Battle To European Courts

Aug 13, 2018
Syria's President Bashar Assad is on the verge of winning the war. But refugee activists are waging new battles against the regime from Europe.
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Participants at a global security conference in Moscow in April gather near a big screen showing a Russian warplane unloading its weapons over a target in Syria. Russia became involved in the Syrian civil war in 2015 in support of its ally President Bash

Russia Says Agreements Were Discussed With Trump On Syria. The U.S. Is Silent

Jul 19, 2018
The Trump administration has offered no information about supposed "specific" proposals that Russian officials have mentioned publicly.
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A surface-to-air missile lit up the sky in Damascus early Saturday morning after President Trump announced airstrikes would be launched to deter the Syrian government for allegedly using chemical weapons.

Debates Ensue After Western Missiles Hit Syria

Apr 15, 2018
The U.S., Britain and France carried out airstrikes against chemical research, storage and military facilities in Syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack.
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Parallels
A truck of the Syrian Red Crescent drives as an aid convoy entered Daraya on June 1, 2016.

How The Syrian Regime Keeps Winning Territory, From An Army Defector's Perspective

Mar 24, 2018
What's happening in eastern Ghouta shows parallels with earlier offensives, from siege to surrender, according to a soldier turned rebel leader.
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This satellite photograph taken on April 18 depicts what the State Department describes as a crematorium — in the bottom right of the image — built to dispose of the bodies of victims at Saydnaya military prison outside Damascus, Syria.

Syria Has Been Burning Bodies To Hide Prison Executions For Years, U.S. Says

May 15, 2017
"We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place" in a military prison outside Damascus, a State Department official said Monday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson waits for the start of a meeting last month at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Tillerson is scheduled to travel to Russia on Tuesday, in what promises to be a difficult round of talks after the U.S. missile strike in

Syria Casts Long Shadow Across Rex Tillerson's Big Trip To Italy And Russia

Apr 10, 2017
The secretary of state is meeting with G-7 diplomats, then heading to Moscow on Tuesday for some rather tough discussions. All the while, the U.S. strike on Syria is likely to be Item 1 on the agenda.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday. The U.S. missile strike in Syria added weight to Trump's suggestion he might act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of Chin

How Is The Rest Of The World Reacting To The U.S. Strike On Syria?

Apr 07, 2017
From Iran to China, from France to Bolivia, see where the world is coming down on the U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base.
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This photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows blood soaked streets and damaged buses after a bombing in Damascus on Saturday.

Explosions in Damascus Target Shiites From Iraq, Kill At Least 40

Mar 11, 2017
The bombing, near a revered cemetery on the border of the old city of Damascus, appears to have targeted Shiite visitors from Iraq. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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A man walks with crutches through a devastated part of eastern Aleppo on Wednesday.

Bashar Assad Claims A Major Victory, But Syria's War Isn't Over

Dec 14, 2016
The Syrian leader is in his strongest position in years. He can claim control of the biggest cities, but the rebels are still a threat in the countryside and the Islamic State holds eastern Syria.
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The Two-Way
A 60-year-old local man who lost his two sons and his wife in airstrikes stands inside his collapsed home in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday.

VIDEO: Aerial Footage Shows Scale Of Destruction In Aleppo

Oct 11, 2016
They are haunting images: rubble-filled streets and entire blocks of ghostly facades. The United Nations says about 250,000 civilians are trapped in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks on Monday at the presidential palace in Ankara. Turkey is now embroiled in conflicts with Syria's President Bashar Assad, the Islamic State and the Kurdish separatists.

Turkey's Debilitating Conflicts On Three Separate Fronts

Jun 29, 2016
Turkey is currently battling Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey. All the battles are draining the country, and none is going well.
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The Two-Way
From Turkish side of the Syrian border, Turkish army howitzers shell Kurdish targets in Syria on Sunday.

Fighting In Syria Intensifies Ahead Of Proposed Truce

Feb 14, 2016
Turkey is shelling Kurdish forces in Syria. Russia is waging air strikes to bolster an advance by Bashar Assad's government. Prospects for a truce aren't looking good.
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The Two-Way
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the audience Friday during an annual meeting at the Defense Ministry in Moscow.

Putin Says Russia Is Backing Some Syrian Opposition Forces

Dec 11, 2015

Russia opposes the Islamic State, but supports Syria's Bashar Assad. Now Moscow says its military is providing weapons and supplies to Western-backed, anti-Assad forces on the frontlines against ISIS.

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Syria Says U.S.-Led Coalition Targeted Its Military, Killing 3 Soldiers

Dec 07, 2015
It is the first time the regime of Bashar Assad has accused the U.S. and its partners of attacking its forces. The U.S. denied the accusation about a strike on a Syrian army camp Sunday.
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The Two-Way
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Putin Defends Russian Military Support For Syrian Regime

Sep 15, 2015
The Russian president says military assistance for Bashar Assad's government is necessary to defeat ISIS. The U.S. says it could exacerbate Syria's civil war.
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Parallels
Free Syrian Army fighters run behind sandbags in Daraa Al-Mahata, in southern Syria, on Jan. 21. Many moderate rebels joined the uprising to fight against President Bashar Assad, but the U.S. plans to train them to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State

Syrian Rebels Want To Fight Assad, But Now They'll Face ISIS

Jan 26, 2015
Moderate Syrian rebels took up arms to topple President Bashar Assad. But the U.S. is planning to train them to fight against a different foe, the self-declared Islamic State, instead.
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