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A list of the most recent stories about the Syrian conflict.
In northern push, Syrian troops reopen key road
Syrian government forces have reopened a key road leading to the embattled northern city of Aleppo after heavy fighting with rebels that left casualties on both sides, state media and activists said Monday. The state news agency and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime troops wrested control ...
Kerry pleased with Syria chemical disarmament
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the United States and Russia are "very pleased" with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks. And, he offered some rare, if qualified, U.S. praise for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Kerry, speaking at a press conference with ...
Kerry 'pleased' with Syria chemical disarmament
Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and Russia are "very pleased" with the progress made so far in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stocks. He says Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime deserves credit for its compliance with a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for the elimination of the ...
Experts begin dismantling Syrian chemical program
International disarmament experts on Sunday began dismantling and destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal and the equipment used to produce it, taking the first concrete step in their colossal task of eliminating the country's chemical stockpile by mid-2014, an official said. The inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical ...
Agreement ends shelling of Syrian village
Syrian government forces reached an agreement Saturday with local officials of a vulnerable Sunni village in a region dominated by President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect to end hours of deadly shelling in exchange for the surrender of dozens of opposition fighters, an activist group said. The shelling of al-Mitras began ...
I've made mistakes, Assad tells German magazine
Syria's President Bashar Assad has conceded making mistakes and says no side in his country's civil war is entirely free of blame, according to an interview to be published Sunday by German magazine Der Spiegel. The respected Hamburg-based weekly reported that Assad acknowledged "personal mistakes by individuals," though the advance ...
Analysis: US reliability questioned overseas
An unmistakable sense of unease has been growing in capitals around the world as the U.S. government from afar looks increasingly befuddled — shirking from a military confrontation in Syria, stymied at home by a gridlocked Congress and in danger of defaulting on sovereign debt, which could plunge the world's ...
Syrian rebel groups battle each other in north
Al-Qaida militants battled fighters linked to the Western-backed opposition along with Kurdish gunmen in Syrian towns along the Turkish border on Friday, in clashes that killed at least 19 people, activists said. The violence is part of an outburst of infighting among the myriad rebel groups opposed to Syrian President ...
Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals
Pope Francis broke bread with the poor and embraced the disabled on a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown Friday, urging the faithful to follow the example of the 13th-century St. Francis, who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and service to the poor. According to ...
Non-essential staff return to US Embassy in Beirut
The State Department says all non-emergency workers who were ordered out of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut last month are being allowed to return to their jobs. The department told all non-essential U.S. personnel to leave Lebanon on Sept. 6 because of fears that an American-led strike on neighboring Syria ...
Syrians, Lebanese job competition adds to tensions
Along busy Hamra street in west Beirut, Syrians fleeing their country's civil war have opened up scores of shops that compete with older ones run by Lebanese already hurting because of a sharp drop in tourism. Many Lebanese businesses compensate by hiring Syrians who will work for very little salary, ...
Disarmament experts report early progress in Syria
International inspectors racing to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons stockpile said Thursday they have made "encouraging initial progress" in their mission, and they hope to start onsite inspections and to begin disabling equipment within a week. An advance team of disarmament experts arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin laying the ...
Weapons experts start Syria mission amid clashes
Deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus on Wednesday and rival rebel factions battled each other in northern Syria as international chemical weapons inspectors began to secure the sites where they will work. The fighting underscored the immense security challenge that the dozens of disarmament experts must negotiate as ...
New sanctions likely despite thaw in US-Iran ties
U.S. lawmakers from both parties have expressed a willingness to give President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran a chance to end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West, but at the same time they are crafting tough new U.S. economic sanctions to further isolate the Islamic republic. Obama's phone call ...
For Israel, attack on Iran seems off the table
President Barack Obama's decision to open a dialogue with Iran's new president appears to have robbed Israel of a key asset in its campaign to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon: the threat of unilaterally attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. Despite some tough rhetoric in a speech to ...
UN urges Kuwait to host new Syria aid conference
Kuwait says the U.N. chief has urged authorities here to host another donors' conference for Syrian humanitarian relief as needs swell for refugees and other civilians caught in the civil war. Kuwait hosted a gathering in January that raised more than $1.5 billion in aid, but relief agencies say demands ...
Netanyahu: Israel won't let Iran get nuclear arms
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played the spoiler Tuesday to Iran's attempts to ease relations with the West, calling the Iranian leader "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and declaring that Israel will do whatever it takes to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, even if it has to stand alone. ...
Chemical weapons experts in Syria to start mission
Wading into the world spotlight, international inspectors arrived in Damascus on Tuesday to begin the monumental task of overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons in the middle of a civil war. The inspectors from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog have around nine months to complete their mission that calls ...
AP PHOTOS: Syrian children attend school amid war
Clutching his books close to his chest, 12-year-old Abdo al-Fikri eagerly walked into a classroom in Madaya, an opposition-held village in northern Syria, his brother and sister trailing behind him. It has been a year since they were last in school. The area has seen ongoing battles between opposition forces ...
Russia: Armed Syrian rebels could join peace talks
"Reasonable" Syrian rebels could take part in prospective peace talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists during a press conference that the West should help encourage those rebels who don't harbor "extremist or terrorist views" to join the talks ...
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