The unrest is in turn contributing to slower growth in Middle East and North Africa, alongside global trade tensions, oil price volatility and Brexit process, IMF said in report on the regional economic outlook.. ..…

Washington Foolishly Tilts Towards War in Syria . . . . The bitterest fights tend to be civil wars. ..…

Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and other groups warned about everything from massive new flows of refugees to conditions for detained Islamic State fighters from Syria's civil war.. Turkish forces began Syria's northeast on Wednesday to clear out Kurdish..…

The civil war in Syria, which has been going on since 2011, has taken a new turn of an all-out war between Turkey and Kurds. . ... The civil war in Syria, which has been going on since 2011, has taken a new turn of an all-out war between Turkey and Kurds...…

Syria’s Kurds have largely stayed out of Syria’s eight-year civil war (except for fighting the IS with U.S. aerial support, and 2,000 special forces members). ... Between 2012 and 2014, while the civil war in Syria was raging, there were many..…

The civil war between the Christian Lebanese and the Islamists would continue for five more years, ending with Syrian control over Lebanon. 850,000 Christians permanently fled Lebanon during the civil war. Syria eventually pulled its troops out of Lebanon in 2005. . The war took a..…

The civil war between the Christian Lebanese and the Islamists would continue for five more years, ending with Syrian control over Lebanon. 850,000 Christians permanently fled Lebanon during the civil war. ... Furthermore, in 1970, a near civil war broke out between Jordan..…

The Department of Homeland Security announced it would extend TPS to Syrians based on the eight-year-long civil war in Syria. ..…

The civil war that raged in Syria over the past eight years seems to be drawing to a close. ... With the outbreak of the civil war, the struggle for Syria was renewed. ..…

But the civil war in Syria shows just how ambivalent this 'stability' criterion is. ... Tehran and Damascus present a united front: 'The civil war in Syria shows just how ambivalent this ʹstabilityʹ criterion is. ..…

The group said Wednesday's deaths raise to 262 the number of Civil Defense members who have been killed since Syria's civil war began eight years ago. . ..…

The civil war that raged in Syria over the past eight years seems to be drawing to a close. ... With the outbreak of the civil war, the struggle for Syria was renewed. ..…

The civil war in Syria has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..…

Trump administration says it's determined to alleviate the plight of Venezuelan people. ..…

March 15, 2011, is the date generally viewed as the beginning of Syria’s civil war. ... Clearly, after eight years of civil war, Syria is a mess, and it is not at all apparent what will emerge if and when the fighting stops. ..…

This comes at time when the in general, and Middle East in particular, face refugee and humanitarian crises, such Libya, Yemen, and famine conditions and in the latter country.. ..…

If Tehran responds to such a challenge with a missile strike of its own, a big war between Tel Aviv and Tehran may break out. If this happens, the civil war in Syria will go into the background. . ..…

Obama agreed and received for this all that he received the preservation of Assad, the continuation of Civil War Syria and the mushrooming of the 'Islamic State ... ..…

“We struck thousands of targets without claiming responsibility or asking for credit,” Eisenkot told The New York Times.When the civil war in Syria broke out in 2011, Israel began attacking convoys transporting Iranian weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. ..…

Turkey has been the main route for refugees trying to cross into Europe, especially since the beginning of the civil war in Syria. . ..…

Countries that are in the midst of vast social upheaval – brought about by revolution (Yemen), civil war (Syria), foreign invasion (Iraq) or even internal demographic divisions and endless outside interference (Lebanon) – find it difficult to establish a social compact. ..…

He replaces the veteran Italian-Swedish negotiator Staffan de Mistura, who for four years tried but failed to end the bloody civil war. . Syria has been brutalized for nearly eight years now. Eight years is the lifetime of a third-grade child. ..…

'The implementation of the memorandum will allow for stopping the combat activities by warring sides and practically put an end to the civil war in Syria, which is why the document is of great importance for the political settlement in the country,' Fomin said on Friday. ...…

And the groups that are waging civil war against the government of Syria include all sorts of different folks. . But the common threat here is that there wouldn’t be any civil war in Syria if there hadn’t been foreign intervention and a conscious..…

Omari: I do not think so, but a free election would determine what the Syrian people want and an election can never happen when you have a civil war in Syria. ... It is no longer about what Syrians want and it is now about regional powers vying to fill the vacuum that has been..…

also parroted the popular but false claim that warming-induced crop failure was a reason for the Syrian civil war. Syria is part of an arid, desert region of the world where, for thousands of years, droughts have been the norm, not the exception. ..…

Instead of aiding Christians it was turned into a bill that would set up a never-ending commission to blame Russia and Iran for the civil war in Syria which was actually financed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. . ..…

Refugees from Syria are trying to migrate to the United States after feeling unwelcome in Europe. . The civil war in Syria started in 2011 and has displaced more than 11 million Syrians within and outside of the country. ..…

Iran’s involvement in Syria’s civil war did not grow simply out of its strategic interests in the region. ... But Syria is important to Iran for messianic reasons because according to Shi’ite traditions, the Mahdi’s reincarnation is associated with a bloody..…

Why would he order missile strikes against the Syrian military when he promised on the campaign trail that he would not get the U.S. involved in the civil war in Syria? ..…

But 400,000 people have died in Syria’s civil war, among them thousands of children and infants. . ... Like the gas attack in 2013, this has the marks of a false-flag operation to stampede America into Syria’s civil war. . ..…

Aleppo city has been at the epicenter of the ongoing civil war in Syria that began in March 2011. . ... On Wednesday, Turkish PM Yildirim said that Russian and Turkey are working on a solution to the ongoing Syrian civil war. . ..…

The announcement comes after the Kurds were excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syria’s civil war, which has been raging since March 2011. . ... “In Syria’s civil war, Kurdish fighters have emerged as the most effective fighting force against..…

Following the eruption of the Arab Spring, the civil war in Syria brought both sides into open confrontation, with the conflict becoming a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. . ... Moreover, Saudi Arabia intended to exclude Iran from playing an active role in the search for a..…

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“We continue, without obvious success or strategy, to fight on both sides of a messy, Middle Eastern civil war,” Himes said. . ... Esty and Himes have joined dozens of Democrats who have written Obama asking him seek a political solution to the civil war in..…

Country: Syria . Title: President . Education: University of Damascus . ... The civil war in Syria will soon enter its fifth year, with no end in sight. ..…

The Left Party was from the start a party of war (see: “The German Left Party's pursuit of war in Syria”). For more than three years, it has supported the brutal civil war in Syria, which is fueled by the imperialist powers and their regional allies,..…

The question is whether getting involved in a civil war in Syria is necessary to the strategy . ..…

Relations never really moved to the next phase, as further progress was waylaid by frictions over missile defense, NATO’s war in Libya, the civil war in Syria, and a host of repressive measures that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime directed at its own citizens...…

The civil war in Syria continues. Peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have collapsed. ..…

Despite being dropped from the mainstream media’s news cycle, the bloodshed in the nearly three-year-long civil war in Syria is on the rise. ... According to Erika Solomon of Reuters on December 2: “The death toll in Syria’s civil war has risen to..…

Will Syria’s Civil War Spread to a Regional Sectarian War Between Sunnis and Shiites? ... This turn of events highlights even more the incoherence of the Obama administration’s evaluation and handling of Syria’s civil war. . . ..…

BEIRUT -- In his assessment to date, United Nations Kofi Annan acknowledged Thursday that his six-point peace plan was not working and warned that Syria was headed down path of repression, massacres, violence and even all-out civil war... ..…