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U.S. to lift sanctions against Syria, Trump says
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria during trip to the Gulf on Tuesday. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada announces plan to ease Syria sanctions
The Canadian government announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition. Many Western nations, including Canada, had put a range of sanctions against Syria under its ousted President Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled late last year by insurgent forces. CBC | World News
Read More »Human rights investigators race to document Syria killings on social media
Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says. CBC | World News
Read More »More than 600 dead after 2 days of clashes in Syria between Assad loyalists, government forces
The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago. CBC | World News
Read More »Dozens dead in Syria after clashes between Assad loyalists and government forces
Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country’s new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »After Assad, these 3 women are working to build a just and peaceful Syria
Syrian human rights advocates say the role of women in their country’s future after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime is non-negotiable. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli troops will occupy buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future, says Netanyahu
The Israeli military will remain inside Syrian territory — in what is supposed to be a demilitarized zone — indefinitely, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, as part of what he described as an effort to shore up security amid the turmoil in Syria. CBC | World News
Read More »Assad breaks silence and reveals exactly what happened in his final hours in Syria
Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime came to an end in early December, when a rebel group swept through Syria’s major cities at lightning speed. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »ISIS fanatics in Syria should be stripped of British citizenship, Keir Starmer told
Dozens of battle-hardened extremists are believed to be in prisons – controlled by Kurdish groups – in north east Syria. Daily Express :: News Feed
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