Syria Archive
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What’s on the menu for war-ravaged Aleppo’s starving residents? Garbage and grass
Posted on 26.11.2016 | No CommentsThe 275,000 residents of East Aleppo have been at the centre of Syria’s civil war since July, when they last received food or medical supplies from the UN relief agency -
Mosul families living in squalor as fight against ISIS rages around them
Posted on 12.11.2016 | No CommentsThe U.N. says hundreds of thousands could be made homeless by what is turning into a protracted urban battle against the Islamic State. -
Hope dims for peace in Syrian as diplomatic talks falter
Posted on 23.09.2016 | No CommentsAs diplomats huddled in a New York hotel attempting to find middle ground, Syria's military command said it would restart operations in the northern city of Aleppo, scene of some of the bitterest fighting in recent months. -
With the caliphate in peril, Western officials bracing for ISIL’s ‘hardened killers’ to take mayhem to Europe
Posted on 17.09.2016 | No CommentsEven top Islamic State leaders acknowledge the inevitable collapse of their declared caliphate, and they appear to be shifting to a new strategy that threatens Europe on multiple fronts -
ISIL has lost all territory along Syria-Turkey border, Turkey says
Posted on 04.09.2016 | No CommentsTurkey-backed Free Syrian Army rebels have cleared the area between the northern Syrian border towns of Azaz and Jarablus, Turkey's prime minister, Binali Yildirim, said -
Convicted terror twin Ashton Larmond devised plan to sneak out of Canada, join ISIS
Posted on 31.08.2016 | No CommentsOne of the twin brothers from Ottawa who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges last week had hatched a plan sneak out of Canada and travel overland to join ISIS in Syria, court documents reveal. -
ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani killed in Syria
Posted on 30.08.2016 | No CommentsIslamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, one of the jihadist group's longest-serving officials, has been killed in Aleppo in Syria, its Amaq News Agency reported on Tuesday. -
New ISIL propaganda video shows young British boy executing ‘spies’ with a pistol
Posted on 27.08.2016 | No CommentsCaptions on the online film identify one of the young pistol-wielding executioners, who are all wearing identical military-style uniforms, as a Briton called Abu Abdullah al-Britani -
Russian warplanes target Islamic State fighters in Syria
Posted on 16.08.2016 | No CommentsRussia's Defence Ministry says that Russian warplanes have taken off from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters in Syria. -
Majority of Canadians support using combat troops to fight ISIS: Ipsos poll
Posted on 02.08.2016 | No CommentsA majority of Canadians believe the federal government should to everything in its power to fight the so-called Islamic State, according to a new poll. -
‘I’m not used to sitting home’: Six months after their arrival, Syrian refugees eager for jobs in Canada
Posted on 02.07.2016 | No CommentsThere are over 10,000 privately sponsored refugees immigrating to 290 Canadian communities, along with the 15,780 government-assisted refugees resettled by the Liberals -
2 policemen dead after car bomb explodes in southern Turkey
Posted on 01.05.2016 | No CommentsA car bomb struck the entrance of a Turkish police station Sunday in the southern city of Gaziantep, killing two police officers and wounding 22 other people.
