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Iron-fisted Assad under threat as Syrian rebels draw closerSyrian President Bashar al-Assad faced a major challenge to his family's 50-year rule. Rebels advanced despite Russian and Iranian backing....07 Dec, 2024, 08.56 PM IST- Gaza faces 'perfect storm' of deadly diseasesThe United Nations is tracking the incidence of 14 diseases with "epidemic potential" and is most concerned about soaring rates of dysenter...14 Dec, 2023, 12.11 PM IST
- Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunalA dozen Syrian rights groups, international legal experts and others have quietly spent two years laying the groundwork for a new treaty-ba...30 Nov, 2023, 11.12 AM IST
- France issues arrest warrants for Syrian president Bashar Assad, 3 generals alleging involvement in war crimesFrance has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity ov...15 Nov, 2023, 06.50 PM IST
- Russia is unlikely to use chemical weapons in Ukraine - unless Vladimir Putin grows desperateA chemical weapon can be any chemical that is used to harm people, including to injure or kill them. Many substances have been used as chem...13 Apr, 2022, 10.56 AM IST
- Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW strips Syria's rights over attacksThe measures are in response to an OPCW investigation last year that found the Syrian air force had used the nerve agent sarin and chlorine...21 Apr, 2021, 05.04 PM IST
- Syria faces sanctions at chemical weapons watchdogMember states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will weigh a French proposal to suspend Syria's "rights an...20 Apr, 2021, 04.08 PM IST
- After Arab Spring, a decade of upheaval and lost hopesThe idea that there was a moment when millions across the Middle East wanted freedom and change so much that they took to the streets seems...15 Dec, 2020, 01.18 PM IST
- Arab Spring: How the West missed a date with historyTen years ago, as protests flared across the Arab world, Western governments failed to meet a date with destiny and help nurture dreams of ...09 Dec, 2020, 12.43 PM IST
- Arab Spring: How the West missed a date with historyHistory will not judge them kindly, said about 20 Western officials, activists and analysts, who talked to AFP on the 10th anniversary of t...07 Dec, 2020, 09.18 AM IST
- Syria, Russia accuse Israel over air strike, deny chemical attackIsrael, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of the seven-year-old civil war, has neither confirmed nor denied m...09 Apr, 2018, 11.47 PM IST
- American mother in Syria's Ghouta urges Trump to 'do something'Syrian troops have recaptured more than 80 per cent of the one-time rebel bastion in a blistering air and ground assault.21 Mar, 2018, 06.39 PM IST
- Fresh strikes on Syria's Ghouta, UN calls for ceasefire to be 'immediately implemented'Air strikes destroyed a building in Douma, the main town in the Eastern Ghouta area east of Damascus, and buried alive an entire family, th...26 Feb, 2018, 05.09 PM IST
- De-escalation zones in Syria led to successful anti-terror campaign against ISAccording to Russian Defence Ministry a “substantial decrease in the levels of violence has been observed after the implementation of the t...27 Sep, 2017, 08.39 AM IST
- The startlingly simple reason Obama continues to ignore SyriaThe US began training a small group of Syrian rebels in early May on the condition that they focus solely on defeating ISIS, The Wall Stree...17 Jul, 2015, 01.03 PM IST
- Presidential election in Syria is a disgrace: USUS alleged millions of Syrians were denied the right to vote & the very electorate continued to massacre its purport to represent and prote...04 Jun, 2014, 08.17 AM IST
- UN inspectors confirm Syria chemical attackUN inspectors said that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict, definitely in a widely publicised Aug 21 attack near Damasc...13 Dec, 2013, 08.59 AM IST
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