List of Syria articles
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An Iraqi rescue worker gestures towards bodies wrapped in plastic in the Mosul al-Jadida area on March 26, 2017, following air strikes in which civilians have been reportedly killed during an ongoing offensive against the Islamic State (IS) group. Iraq is investigating air strikes in west Mosul that reportedly killed large numbers of civilians in recent days, a military spokesman said. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: No Change to U.S. Airstrikes Despite Rising Civilian Casualty Claims; Pentagon To Go Dark On Troop Deployments; China And Saudi Team Up
Beijing Ready To Go in SCS; North Korea Tests New Rocket Engine; Russia and Iran in Syria
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TOPSHOT - Smoke plumes rise after an airstrike in west Mosul on March 10, 2017 as Iraqi forces advance in the city during the ongoing battle to seize it from the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) As U.S. Airstrikes Rise, So Do Allegations of Civilian Deaths
A massive bombing in Mosul that may have killed as many as 200 people tops a growing list of sites where the U.S. is accused of bombing civilians.
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US Defense Secretary James Mattis waits for the arrival of Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Secretary Mohammed bin Salman at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Has a Strategy for Destroying the Islamic State — and It’s Working
It may be incremental, but it's coherent. And watch out, Iran.
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A man carries two children away from the scene of an explosion in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, early on August 7, 2013. UN weapons inspectors tasked with looking into claims of chemical weapons use in Syria are "completing their preparations" in The Hague before heading to Damascus, the United Nations said. AFP PHOTO/ABDULLAH AL-SHAM (Photo credit should read ABDULLAH AL-SHAM/AFP/Getty Images) Civilians still in Raqqa are still civilians
The presence of the US 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Syria to take part in the campaign to capture Raqqa marks a significant shift in U.S. policy in the Middle East, and heralds an unknown future for the city’s civilians.
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A fighter of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, looks with binoculars as he sits next to anti-tank weapons in the village of Sabah al-Khayr on the northern outskirts of Deir Ezzor as they drive to encircle the Islamic State (IS) group bastion of Raqa on February 21, 2017. The SDF made a major incursion into the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor as part of their push for Raqa, field commander Dejwar Khabat said. / AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: New Allegations, New Fights in Trump-Russia Probe; U.S., Allies, Push on Raqqa; Taliban Seize Key District
Tillerson Wants Safe Zones; Mattis Wants New War Authorization; Navy Wants $150 Billion; And Lots More
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TOPSHOT - US President Barack Obama(R)welcomes President-elect Donald Trump to the White House in Washington, DC January 20, 2017. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s War on Terror Rejects Obama’s Off-Shore Balancing for Obama’s Operational Raiding
Donald Trump's approach to combating terrorism looks a lot like Obama's.
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Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson gestures while speaking at a discussion organized by the Economic Club of Washington on the energy innovations that have led to a new era of energy abundance for North America in Washington, DC on March 12, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Tillerson’s Push for Safe Zones in Iraq and Syria Faces Questions, Obstacles
Allies and activists oppose sending refugees back into a war zone
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rteg20 The Race to Raqqa Could Cost Trump Turkey
The anti-Islamic State fight could devolve into a war between the Kurds and Ankara and disrupt the plan to take back the terrorist group’s de facto capital.
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Aperture The Syrian Refugees Coming Home to Armenia
A century ago, they fled to escape the genocide in the collapsing Ottoman Empire. Now these ethnically Armenian Syrians are trying to make a new home in their old country.
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BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 18: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (2nd-L) meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (2nd-R) at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 18, 2017 in Beijing, China. Tillerson is on his first visit to Asia as Secretary of State. (Photo by Lintao Zhang -Pool/Getty Images) SitRep: Tillerson on Japanese Nukes; WH Hands Off on Troop Deployments; Abadi to Washington
Israel and Russia Talk Syria Strikes; USAF Reduces Nuke Stockpile; Germany Pushes Back on Trump’s NATO Comments; And Lots More
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Members of the Iraqi forces drive their Humvees in the streets of west Mosul on March 17, 2017 as they advance in the offensive against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) What Should Trump Do After the Islamic State Is Defeated?
The defeat of ISIS will create new dilemmas for the Trump administration.
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TOPSHOT - Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following a reported airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jineh in Aleppo province late on March 16, 2017. The US military says it carried out an air strike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where dozens were killed according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Says Airstrike In Syria Did Not Hit Mosque
Videos emerged of a bombed-out mosque and dozens dead after an airstrike in northern Syria, but U.S. officials say they hit al Qaeda.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: (AFP OUT) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends the annual Governors Dinner in the East Room of the White House February 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Part of the National Governors AssociationÕs annual meeting in the nation's capital, the black tie dinner and ball is the first formal event the Trumps will host at the White House since moving in last month. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) SitRep: Pentagon Wins Budget; State Loses; Tillerson Speaks!; Pentagon, NSC Staffing Drama
More Troops to Syria; U.S. and Russian Troops Eyeball in Syria; Hackers Indicted; And Lots More
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Fighters from Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front drive in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo flying Islamist flags as they head to a frontline, on May 26, 2015. Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been divided between government control in the city's west and rebel control in the east since shortly after fighting there began in mid-2012. AFP PHOTO / AMC / FADI AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images) Al Qaeda Is Starting to Swallow the Syrian Opposition
On the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, moderate rebels have never been weaker — and jihadis have never been stronger.
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pic crop Watch: The Global Flow of Asylum-Seekers In One Interactive Map
Visualizing one of history’s biggest global crises.
