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Washington expressed concern over the Russian military build-up in Syria and put pressure on countries nearby to deny their air space to Russian flights to the country.

Greece, Italy and Hungary are too overwhelmed to participate.

Indirect support for Assad would come from a country that has no qualms about it, thereby enabling the West to stick to its old he-must-go policy.

Let {us| me} turn the outpouring of public support for refugees into a strong and coordinated effort to tackle the problem at source, with Muslim nations central to any anti-IS coalition. Given that so many of Syria’s 20 million people have been driven from their homes, who...

Those refugees has left their counties escaping the scourge of war that lasts for four years.

Homs- The Islamic State (ISIS) fighters have captured the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during deadly clashes over a vast central desert zone, a monitoring group said.

ISIL fighters blew up the Roman-era temple of Baal Shamin on Sunday, said Syria’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim.

In addition to Syrians, others who have fled wars or were uprooted – such as Palestinians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis and Yemenis – have made their home in the region, as Emirati commentator Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi noted in The worldwide Business Times. But to the Syrians,...

The shadow home secretary said that within 24 hours of her asking councils in England, Scotland and Wales asking if they would be prepared to help in providing places for refugees, more than 40 had written back offering support.

The main cohort consists of Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population on earth.

A Palmyra resident, who goes by the name of Nasser al-Thaer, said IS militants set off a huge blast at 1:45 p.m. Sunday.

The extremists destroyed the smaller Temple of Baalshamin in the complex last week.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russian Federation.

A report by an Israeli think tank indicates that IS militants may have used chemical weapons on July 12, 2014, in the Kurdish village of Avdiko in Syria.

On 17 August, for the first time in two years, the UN Security Council, including Russian Federation, agreed to a statement in favour of a push for a political solution. “I’m thinking of Turkey which must get involved in the fight against Daesh (an alternative name...