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Russia, one of the few remaining friends of Bashar al-Assad's regime, just sent the Syrian government some advanced antiship missiles.
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A school in Damascus that has been turned into a military base was hit by a series of bombings today, as a new report details the shocking abuse suffered by children caught in Syria's civil war.
Iraq was originally so trusting when a New York Times report accused Iran of flying military equipment through Iraq to aid Bashar al-Assad's government forces, but now it looks like they're a bit more suspicious.
Depending on who you believe, it was either a triumphant attack by Syrian rebels or a potentially catastrophic mid-air accident, but a Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital.
The United Nations has drawn up a list of individuals and military units it believes are guilty of war crimes in Syria, though Human Rights Watch also says that opposition forces are guilty of torture and summary executions as well.
Global Post's Tracey Shelton has been embedded with Syrian rebels in Aleppo, one of the most violent cities over the last few months, and she is lucky to be alive after the group she was with was attacked by a government tank.
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Iraq said on Wednesday there was no evidence to support the report in The New York Times that it was allowing Iran to fly military supplies to Syria through its airspace, but that depends on your interpretation of military supplies.
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On Tuesday Al Jazeera became the latest casualty in the online war raging alongside the Syrian conflict as hackers claiming to be Syrian loyalists defaced it with a screed against its coverage, but they weren't terribly thorough.
The ongoing civil war in Syria continues to set all the wrong kinds of records as last month proved to be the deadliest so far in the 17-month old revolt.
Reports out of Syria on Saturday say rebel forces launched attacks on three different air force bases in a fight to control the sky in the Syrian conflict.
This is one of those times when having an embassy in Damascus would be helpful: Americans are working with Czech diplomats to confirm the status of Austin Tice, the freelance journalist missing in Syria since mid-August, and at least it now appears he's alive.
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In the first visit to Iran by an Egyptian leader since the 1979 revolution, new president Mohammed Morsi took on his host country's closest ally, calling on Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step down.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sounded totally detached from reality Wednesday, telling an interviewer that "the situation is much better" in Syria following 18 months of violence and an estimated death toll of 22,000.
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A commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps admits that the government in Tehran is not just offering moral and financial support to Bashar al-Assad, but has actually contributed foot soldiers to reinforce Syria's army.
An army helicopter was shot down over a Damascus neighborhood on Monday as Syrians continue to gather evidence of the latest massacre by government troops.
Unconfirmed reports coming out of Syria are saying over 200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the town of Daraya on Saturday, and most of them were killed by sniper fire or "summarily executed."
It feels like déjà vu all over again: France, which led the charge for military intervention in Libya last year, is now backing a partial no-fly zone in Syria—a step that would for all practical purposes amount to a declaration of war.
Another foreign journalist is missing in Syria, this time it's Austin Tice, an American who hasn't been heard from in more than a week, though we're hopeful his silence just signals a lapse in communication and not something worse.
The final few seconds of the last footage shot by Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto in Syria show gunfire breaking out as the camera falls to the ground.
At a news conference in Moscow Tuesday, Syria's Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil warned the U.S. against foreign military intervention, saying such efforts would lead to "a confrontation wider than Syria's borders."
Mika Yamamoto, the veteran Japanese war correspondent killed in Syria on Monday, died when gunmen identified by rebels as Syrian soldiers opened fire on a group of journalists in Aleppo, the The AFP reported, as heartbreaking details about her death trickled out.
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Considering the array of images of young Syrian men with rocket-launchers on their shoulders and ammo slung around their necks, you probably wouldn't think the rebel army consists of many white collar stiffs. But you'd be wrong.
There's very little information yet available on the Japanese journalist killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, but it looks like we're seeing another situation similar to the death of American reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik in February.
With so many Beltway voices calling for U.S. military intervention in Syria, President Obama finally drew a "red line" Monday that would prompt U.S. engagement in the region. Sort of, anyway.
They've been pushed around, shot at and ignored for four months and now they're finally calling it quits.
Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on Sunday to attend a prayer service to mark the start of the Eid al-Fitr festival, a Muslim holiday. It's the first time al-Assad's been seen in public since July 4.
After Kofi Annan quit the job in frustration, the United Nations announced Friday it had officially named veteran negotiator and former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi as its new envoy to Syria, a move that sounds like it took some work.
The violence in Syria is hitting increasingly close to home for President Bashar al-Assad as rebels encroach on his inner circle.
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Allegations of war crimes have been lurking in the background as the Syrian conflict has continued to rage on, but on Wednesday a United Nations expert panel concluded that both sides had perpetrated them—but the Syrian government's were more serious.
The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for a big explosion that they say was targeting a meeting of high-ranking government officials.
As the battle for Aleppo continues, Syrian rebels and President Bashar al-Assad are ramping up outreach to their respective allies.
Though Syria's state-run television and Bashar al-Assad's forces say "technical malfunctions" sent a fighter jet crashing down from the sky today, YouTube videos from rebel forces tell a different side of the story.
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To get a sense of how rapidly beltway opinion on Syria is shifting, look no further than the debate over a no-fly zone in the country.
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Less than an hour after Syria announced that he was fired, other news outlets have confirmed that Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has defected to Jordan.
Reuters became involved in the Syrian conflict in a way it didn't intend to on Friday, when someone hacked into its blogging site and published a fake post purporting to quote a Syrian rebel leader saying his forces were withdrawing from Aleppo.
Just as United Nations Special Envoy Kofi Annan calls it quits, world powers are beginning to assert themselves more forcefully in Syria.
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Only one thing is certain in Syria following the resignation of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan: It will be impossible to find a more seasoned diplomat to fix the mess it's in.
Nobody knows how to resolve the crisis in Syria and that includes Kofi Annan, who will resign as the United Nation's special envoy for Syria on August 31, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Thursday.
President Obama apparently gave the go-ahead for U.S. intelligence agencies to do everything they can to get Bashar al-Assad out of power in Syria, short of supplying weapons to the rebel forces, according to a new Reuters report.
In a sign that Syrian rebels are starting to adopt the same gruesome tactics as Syrian security forces, a video has surfaced today which appears to show rebels executing four Assad loyalists.
Inside Syria, it's a little hard to keep track of the chaos as government forces battle rebels in Aleppo, but one way to gauge the significance of what's happening is to keep tabs on who in the government resigns over it.
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