Kerry Appeals To Russia To Help End Syrian Civil WarMichele Kelemen
After rebel groups toppled President Bashar Assad’s government on Dec. 8, the prospect of returning home opened for the first time in more than a decade for the many Syrians who fled during the civil war that ravaged the country, including 1.3 million in Germany. Many of them...
An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was shock, then joy, and a desperate hope that it might last. Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 years old. But over this decade the war has seemed like ...
ANKARA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- "I have a homeland today to return to, I belong there." At 25, Islam Al-Masri's life has been marked by displacement during Syria's civil war. Now, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, he has decided to end his exile and return. ...
When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, thousands of Syrian refugees began to flood into neighboring Jordan. By the end of the following year, the number of refugees had reached 150,000; a year later, it was one-half million. There are currently at least 1 million Syrian ...
Noun1.Syrian Arab Republic- an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization Syria Popular Struggle Front,PSF- a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have ...
Russia, whose intervention in Syria’s civil war on behalf of Assad was crucial in turning the conflict in his favor, has said it will continue to support him. “We continue our contacts at the appropriate level,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters M...
November 25, 2013 -The United Nations announces that starting January 22 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Syrian government and an unknown number of opposition groups will meet at a “Geneva II” conference meant to broker an end to the Syrian civil war. ...
November 25, 2013 -The United Nations announces that starting January 22 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Syrian government and an unknown number of opposition groups will meet at a “Geneva II” conference meant to broker an end to the Syrian civil war. ...
Hezbollah, Iran’s main proxy in the region, helped former President Bashar al-Assad maintain his grip in Syria through its civil war. When the militant group pulled its forces out of the country to focus on its war with Israel, it left Assad exposed, experts say. ...