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Videos show Syrian President Bashar Assad driving himself to the front lines outside Damascus, where his forces are close to eliminating the last rebel stronghold near the capital.

Russia's top defense official says Russia will respond if the United States launches a missile strike on the Syrian capital, Damascus.

About 511,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war, and 85 percent were civilians who died at the hands of the Syrian regime...

Turkish warplanes struck pro-Syrian government forces in the northwestern Afrin region of Syria on Saturday, killing at least 36 of them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The United States and Russia are again clashing over an expert body to determine responsibility for chemical attacks in Syria, with Washington circulating a new draft UN resolution and Moscow moving toward a vote on its own proposal

Russia called a daily "humanitarian pause" in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, bowing to pressure to halt the carnage in the rebel-held enclave where bombardments eased late Monday after hours of deadly raids.The global network of Agence France Presse

MOSCOW (AP) — An unknown number of private Russian military contractors were killed by a U.S. strike in Syria, Russian media reported Tuesday in a development that could further inflame Russia-U.S....

Although only four Russians have been confirmed dead, reports continue to circulate that many more died in fighting in eastern Syria on Feb. 7-8.

Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed... Friday night, a

The Pentagon said Wednesday that roughly 2,000 U.S. combat troops are in Syria. Until this point, the Pentagon said 503 troops were in Syria...

Just when you thought our Syria policy could not get any worse, last week it did. The US military twice attacked Syrian government forces from a...

Russia has said it will treat United States planes in Syria as targets after an American warplane shot down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday.

THE US has shot down a Syrian warplane in self defence, the military has confirmed.

Omran Daqneesh, shown last year dazed and bloodied, is photographed at home with his family.

Massive explosion rocks airport in the Syrian capital Damascus, activists say

"...part of an immediate review of all intelligence in the hours after the attack" The post U.S. intercepted communications of Syrian military planning chemical attack appeared first on Hot Air.

The White House released a declassified four-page report that details United States intelligence on the chemical weapons attack, asserting that the Syrian and Russian governments have sought to confuse the world community about the assault through disinformation and false narratives.

Spicer made the comments at today's press briefing.

Putin also says Russia will ask U.N. to investigate chemical attack that provoked U.S. missile strike

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