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Syria: Ancient city of Palmyra under threat of ISIL rampage

Fears are growing for the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, hailed as one of the Middle East’s most precious cultural treasures, amid reports that

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Intense battles on several fronts in Syria, including near UNESCO site

Syria’s army, backed up by fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, have reportedly made big advances against insurgents in a key border region. The

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Turkish PM makes unauthorised visit to Syria

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"Death Everywhere" - report accuses Syria of bombing civilians

Amnesty International report accuses Syrian government of deliberately targeting civilians with deadly barrel bombs in Aleppo

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US-led airstrike kills 52 civilians, including 7 children

A group monitoring the conflict in Syria has reported fifty-two civilians have been killed by a single US-led airstrikes. The Syrian Observatory for

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Is Bulgaria's border wall forcing migrants to risk deadly crossings?

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US downplays reports that ISIL leader was wounded in airstrike

The Pentagon said on Tuesday it had no reason to believe that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group, was seriously

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Syria's Assad issues warning to foreign states hostile to his rule

Amid new international peace efforts, Syria's president hits out at foreign nations hostile to his regime

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Child pulled from rubble is rare moment of hope in Syrian war

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Christians in Aleppo call for an end to the Syria conflict

As the systematic bombing of Syria’s largest city continues to wreak destruction and claim lives, a leading Christian clergyman in Aleppo has called

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Syria: blasts over the city of Aleppo

Turkey

Turkey deports British would-be 'jihad' family to UK

Eight British nationals who have been detained in Turkey on suspicion of trying to illegally enter Syria were on their way back to the UK on Tuesday

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Italy: 1,700 migrants rescued off the Sicilian coast

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UN calls for safe passage for Yarmouk refugees

UN officials have visited the Syrian capital Damascus to call for people who want to leave the Yarmouk refugee camp on the city’s fringes, to be

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Europe faces renewed calls to ease Syrian refugee mega-crisis

Europe must do more to help Syrians escape the country’s brutal civil war, says the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In an interview

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Yarmouk Palestinians crushed between ISIL and Assad

On the periphery of the Syrian capital, Yarmouk Camp, now largely destroyed, is in fact a city, with buildings, not tents. As a camp, it was

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Syria: UN calls for aid access to besieged Yarmouk refugee camp

The UN Security Council says crimes against Palestinian refugees in Syria’s besieged Yarmouk camp must not go unpunished. The UN is also calling for

Turkey

Turkish coast guards rescue over 50 Syrian migrants as their boat sank

At least 51 Syrian migrants have been rescued by Coast Guard teams as their boat sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast in two separate incidents. Videos

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Palestinians put pressure on Damascus over Yarmouk crisis

The desperate plight of Palestinians trapped amid fighting in Syria prompted dozens of people to demonstrate outside the UN headquarters in Gaza. One

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Palestinians mobilise to save Yarmouk refugees after ISIL attack

A video posted online on Sunday purported to show militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State advancing into the mostly Palestinian refugee camp