December 12, 2015 Putin criticizes US efforts in Syria, defends airstrike campaign Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended Moscow’s airstrike campaign in Syria while criticizing suspended U.S. efforts to train Syrian rebels to battle ISIS, The Telegraph reports.
December 12, 2015 State Department confirms American suicide bomber in Syria The State Department confirmed Friday that an American man named Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha launched a suicide bombing against Syrian government troops Sunday, an attack believed to be linked to an Al Qaeda-backed militant group.
December 12, 2015 ISIS denying food, medicine to hundreds of thousands in Syria, UN report says The Islamic State group has denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and hidden its fighters among civilians since a U.S.-led coalition began launching airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, a U.N. panel investigating war crimes in Syria reported Friday.
December 12, 2015 Syrian leader Assad meets with Putin in Moscow President Bashar Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since the war broke out in Syria in 2011 to meet his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Syrian and Russian media reported Wednesday.
December 12, 2015 Israel calls up reserve troops over Syrian threat, hands out gas masks Israel ordered a special call-up of reserve troops Wednesday as nervous citizens lined up at gas-mask distribution centers, preparing for possible hostilities with Syria.
December 12, 2015 In midst of Syrian war, giant Jesus statue arises In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three factions in the country's civil war.
December 11, 2015 US sends small number of advanced weapons to Syrian rebels The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have supplied Syrian rebel groups with a small number of advanced American antitank missiles for the first time in a pilot program that could lead to larger flows of sophisticated weaponry, people briefed on the effort said.
December 11, 2015 Sky News Arabia crew missing in Syria A team of reporters from Sky News Arabia has gone missing in the contested city of Aleppo in northern Syria, the Abu Dhabi-based channel said Thursday.
December 11, 2015 Syria's Assad buying 'a great deal' of ISIS oil, US official says The ISIS terror group and the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad have engaged in "millions and millions of dollars of trade" despite being at war with each other, a top U.S. Treasury official said Thursday.
December 11, 2015 Russia to meet with NATO officials over claims it's bombing civilians in Syria The Russian defense ministry announced Tuesday it invited military representatives from the United States and other NATO countries to explain allegations Moscow has been bombing civilian targets in Syria, Reuters reports.
