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Since the start of Syria’s war in 2011, numerous efforts to halt the conflict through diplomacy have failed
The first-person shooter game is a low-cost spinoff of bestseller "Call of Duty" that glorifies the group’s battles in the ongoing Syrian conflict.
Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has drawn sharp criticism, with the significant exception of Israel.
After months of stalemate, the Syrian talks are expected to focus primarily on a new constitution and elections and two reforms proposed by the UN.
Rebels have told ‘Al Jazeera’ that Turkey has indirectly sent a stark warning to any faction that resists the operation.
At least 72 people, among them 20 children, were killed in Tuesday’s attack in rebel-held Khan Sheikhun.
The Russian foreign ministry confirmed the death of envoy Andrei Karlov, which marked one of the most serious spillovers of the Syria conflict.
President Bashar al-Assad said a victory for his army in the city of Aleppo would be a “huge step” towards ending the devastating five-year civil war.
It is unclear how the ICC could proceed given that the court has no jurisdiction for crimes in Syria because it is not a member of the ICC.
Reports from the scenes of Russia’s air strikes suggest that the targeting of groups other than Isis was deliberate. Yet the detail may not matter.
A senior negotiator describes the rejection of an alleged proposal, since then tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced.
A Western-backed coalition of Syria’s opposition to President Bashar al-Assad says it is ready to work with the US to fight the Islamic State.
The United Nations will vote on a draft resolution which will allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians without government consent.
Syria’s governement says a presidential election will take place on June 3, but Western leaders say the vote is a "parody of democracy".
Syria’s exiled opposition will be barred from a presidential election to be held before July, virtually ensuring Bashar al-Assad’s re-election.
The international mediator for Syria has apologised for a lack of progress at "laborious" talks in Geneva.
Russia has offered assurances that the Syrian government will soon ship more toxic agents abroad for destruction.
Aid agencies in Syria have evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk.
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Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country as part of the disarmament programme, which has faced technical problems.
Despite global outrage over the use of chemical weapons, Bashar al-Assad’s government is successfully exploiting divisions among the opposition.
Long-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict have provisionally been set for November 23.
Following a chemical attack in Damascus, disarmament experts will begin cataloguing Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons in order to destroy it.
At least nine people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike that hit a school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday.
South Africa has welcomed a decision providing for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, the department of international relations has said.
People in the Alawite heartland of Qerdaha say they are willing to die for the Syrian president.
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President Bashar al-Assad is willing to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, but says it will cost $1-billion and take a year.
Germany has rejected a suggestion it might have contributed to the sarin attack in Damascus after it was revealed the country sold chemicals to Syria.
Despite France’s sentiments, Russia’s foreign minister has said there was no proof that Bashar al-Assad’s troops carried out the attack on Damascus.
UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom has found in his report that nerve agent sarin was used in the August 21 attack on Damascus.
An elite Syrian unit that runs the state’s chemical arms programme has been dispersing the weapons to dozens of sites across the country, say reports.
The US’s decision to not strike Syria leaves Saudi Arabia and Qatar with a few options beyond continuing to fund one side in a military stalemate.