Trump’s foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in a vulnerable region of Syria to close
The Trump administration's abrupt freeze in foreign aid has closed health clinics offering free care in one of Syria's most ...
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‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps
The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps ...
Syria’s dire economic woes threaten to undermine its new government
Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...
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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Mohammad Khalawi explains the devastation of Syria's Deir al-Zour province through the scars left by the many conquerors who ...
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's Pick to Oversee US Spy Agencies, Grilled About Snowden, Syria and Russia
Mark Warner of Virginia. Gabbard defended her meeting with Assad, saying she used the opportunity to press the Syrian leader on his human rights record. "I asked him tough questions about his own ...
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Leader of rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named country’s interim president
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to ...
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A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief’s nomination fight
Tim Kaine, D-Va., to the Turkish-Syrian border to see the impact of the war. As part of that trip, they visited Gaziantep, where civilians from Syria were receiving medical treatment across the ...
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Syria's New Government Leaves Russia's Navy Adrift
After loitering off the Syrian coast for weeks, two Russian cargo ships docked at the port of Tartus, part of a reluctant mission to unravel one of the Kremlin's biggest foreign policy successes ...
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Russia’s hopes to keep Syria bases fade with talks stalled
(Tribune News Service) — Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and Africa, according to a person in Moscow ...