How a contrarian MIT professor fueled Tulsi Gabbard’s doubt about Syrian gas attacks
Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence disregarded U.S. assessments of chemical weapons attacks and instead ...
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For Generations, Russia Was Syria’s Main Arms Supplier, That May Be Over
it conducted a joint air patrol with the Syrian air force, including along the Euphrates River and Syria’s Golan Heights frontier with Israel. It was clearly an attempt to demonstrate control ...
The slow rise of Hafez al-Assad, from pan-Arabism to Syrian nationalism
Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...
AOL13d
Trump top spy pick faces fresh scrutiny over Syria visit and Russia comments
The US launched missiles at a Syrian Air Force base where the Pentagon said a warplane had taken off before dropping bombs filled with the nerve agent sarin on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.
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Israel has declared war on the promise of a strong, democratic Syria
It also launched a devastating campaign of aerial bombardment, wiping out the Syrian air force and military capabilities. Some of the bombardment was so massive that it registered as minor ...
Israeli Air Force targets Hamas weapons facility in southern Syria
Israeli jets targeted a Hamas weapons storage facility in southern Syria’s Deir Ali region. The operation aims to undermine ...
Morning Star16d
Jihadist rebels defy truce and keep fighting
Deputy leader Abu Ammar al-Umar’s announcement leaves roughly half the insurgent forces in Syria in the bombsights of the Russian air force. Western-backed militants occupying east Aleppo opened fire ...
Pakistan Today26d
UN rights chief meets with Syria’s al-Sharaa, visits Sednaya prison
including on two residential buldings in Douma in northeast Damascus by the Syrian air force on 7 April 2018. It “says a lot about the extreme brutality of the tactics used by the former regime ...
Christian Science Monitor12d
After Assad’s fall, Syrians search for lost loved ones – and a path forward
It confirmed that at least one Syrian air force helicopter dropped two yellow cylinders that struck two residential buildings in Douma’s central area, killing 43 named individuals. Dr. Basel ...