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December 11, 2015

Israel says it carried out joint missile test with US in Mediterranean

Israel has acknowledged conducting a joint missile test with the United States in the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, responding to reports that Russian radar had detected a missile launch in the direction of the eastern Mediterranean. 

December 11, 2015

Assad says Syria will allow access to chemical sites

Syrian President Bashar Assad says his government will allow international experts access to its chemical weapons sites but that rebels might block them from reaching some of the locations.  

December 11, 2015

ISIS controls 50 percent of Syria after takeover of Palmyra, activists say

The Islamic State terror group now controls over half of Syrian territory after seizing the village and archaeological site of Palmyra Thursday, activists monitoring Syria's civil war said.

December 11, 2015

Syrian extremist group posts hand amputation photos on Twitter

An extremist Syrian group took to Twitter Friday to live-tweet pictures of rebels helping to chop off the hand of an alleged thief.  

December 11, 2015

UN aid program in Syria firmly linked to the Assad regime

While United Nations inspectors are struggling to reach areas of Syria where the Assad regime allegedly has used chemical weapons, U.N. humanitarian officials are renewing calls for aid to be donated to their domestic Syrian operations, which are run under the close control of the same brutal regime.

December 11, 2015

Unofficial tests reportedly indicate new chemical weapons use by Syria's Assad

Independent tests have confirmed that Syrian forces have used chemical weapons on civilians at least four times over the past three weeks, a British newspaper reported Wednesday.

December 11, 2015

UN has 20 Syrian chemical weapons sites to inspect, official says

International inspection teams overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons will have to negotiate cease-fires between government and rebel forces to gain access to some sites, officials closely involved with the mission said Wednesday.

December 11, 2015

Battlefield reversals put pressure on Syria's Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who four months ago seemed on the verge of defeating rebel forces, is now mired in defensive battles on several fronts, complicating efforts to fight the Islamic State militant group.

December 10, 2015

UN warns of pending 'massacres' as ISIS closes in on Syrian city

Islamic State fighters have reportedly moved closer to capturing the Syrian town of Kobani, near the Turkish border, in what would be the most serious setback for Kurdish forces since a campaign of U.S. and Arab airstrikes in Syria began last month. 

December 10, 2015

Assad warns of retaliation if West strikes Syria

In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Assad was quoted as saying that Syria has challenged the U.S. and France to provide proof to support their allegations, but that their leaders "have been incapable of doing that, including before their own peoples."