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Syria's Assad to head to China as Beijing boosts its reach in the Middle East

The office of Syria's President Bashar Assad says he will head to China later this week in his first visit to Beijing since his country’s conflict started 12 years

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Lawsuit by Islamic rights group says US terror watchlist woes continue even after names are removed

A lawsuit filed by an Islamic civil rights group challenges the constitutionality of the government's terror watchlist and says Muslims face negative repercussions even after they are able to clear their name off the list

The Independent UK

3 wounded in southern Syria after shots fired at protesters at ruling party's local headquarters

Security guards from the Syrian president’s Baath party have fired shots at protesters trying to raid its local headquarters in southern Syria, wounding at least three people, activists said

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UN envoy urges donor support for battered Syria facing an economic crisis

The United Nations special envoy for Syria Sunday has urged donors not to reduce their funding as the war-torn country’s economic crisis spirals

The Independent UK

US-backed Kurdish fighters report the capture of a senior Islamic State group financier in Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they detained a senior official with the Islamic State group who was in charge of financing and arming sleeper cells

The Independent UK

Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against the Islamic State group

The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has kept a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years

The Independent UK

Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syrian have destroyed the statue of the country's late president as they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader

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Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of 2011 uprising

Anti-government protests in southern Syria have stretched into a second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad's government and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party.

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Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising

Anti-government protests in southern Syria have entered their second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad, and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party

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3 members of Congress make a rare visit to opposition-held northwest Syria

It's the first known visit to the country by American lawmakers in six years. GOP Reps. French Hill, Ben Cline and Scott Fitzgerald urged the Biden administration to maintain pressure on Bashar Assad.

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Members of US Congress make a rare visit to opposition-held northwest Syria

Three US Congress members have made a brief visit to opposition-held northwest Syria in the first known trip to the war-torn country by American lawmakers in six years

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A decade after a sarin gas attack in a Damascus suburb, Syrian survivors lose hope for justice

A decade after a sarin gas attack killed hundreds and left thousands hurt in a Syrian suburb near the capital of Damascus, survivors say there has been no accountability for that attack or for other atrocities committed during the country's brutal conflict

The Independent UK

Protests rock government-held areas in southern Syria as economy crumbles

Syrian opposition activists say protests have broken out in two government-held provinces in the south amid widespread anger over increasing prices, the crash of the Syrian pound and the dwindling purchasing power of many people in the war-torn country

The Independent UK

Syrian president doubles public sector wages as national currency spirals downwards

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has doubled public sector wages and pensions as the war-torn country’s national currency spiraled further downwards, reaching a new low for the year

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Assad blames Erdogan for violence in Syria and insists on a pullout of Turkish troops

Syrian President Bashar Assad has slammed Turkey and blamed Ankara for the uptick in violence in his war-torn country

The Independent UK

US vows to keep Syria's chemical weapons program in UN spotlight over Russian and Chinese opposition

The United States and its allies are vowing to keep Syria’s failure to account for its chemical weapons program in the spotlight at the U.N. Security Council every month despite opposition from Russia and China

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Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk

The head of a leading aid group says an impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria’s last rebel-held enclave is endangering 4.1 million Syrians living there

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US and major donors demand independent UN aid operation in Syria's rebel-held northwest

The United States says it has joined major donors in demanding that the United Nations be able to deliver aid through a key crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest independently and to everyone in need

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They fled Syria's shattering civil war. Now, Syrian refugees in Jordan fear being forced to return

As Middle East countries begin to restore relations with Syrian President Bashar Assad, many Syrian refugees who fled civil war fear they will be forced to return to their homeland

The Independent UK

UN agency slashes cash aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan, raising the alarm on its funding crunch

The United Nations food agency says it will reduce monthly cash aid for almost 120,000 Syrian refugees living in camps in Jordan

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Iraqi premier in Syria to discuss boosting cooperation during the first visit in over a decade

Iraq’s prime minister is holding talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus during the first trip of its kind to the war-torn country since the 12-year conflict began

The Independent UK

UN says the Damascus-proposed conditions for aid delivery to northwest Syria are 'unacceptable'

The United Nations agency responsible for overseeing humanitarian aid has described conditions placed by the Syrian government on aid deliveries from Turkey to northwest Syria as “unacceptable.”

The Independent UK

Syria gives green light to reopen key crossing to rebel-held northwest from Turkey— with caveats

The Syrian government has given a green light for the United Nations to resume delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest through the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey for six months

The Independent UK

UN ends aid to northwest Syria from Turkey after Security Council fails to renew approval

The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people

The Independent UK

Jordan's foreign minister calls for investment into war-torn Syria to speed up refugee returns

Jordan’s foreign minister has called for investment into conflict-ravaged Syria’s crippled infrastructure to speed up refugee returns

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