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Syria joins Paris accord, leaving the US as world’s only non-signatory

Nov 8, 2017

Syria has now joined the Paris climate accord, leaving the United States as the last nation on Earth left out of the landmark agreement after Nicaragua announced plans to sign on last month. Syria announced pla...

Russian plane crashes in Black Sea en route to Syria, government sources blame likely technical malfunction

West Side Story

Dec 25, 2016

Science, World

The Kremlin has said that technical problems most likely caused the crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 into the Black Sea on Sunday, after taking off from the coastal town of Sochi. The flight was headed towards Syria, ...

Study says Climate change caused Syrian civil war and Calif. Drought

Cody Gash

Mar 3, 2015

Innovation

Scientists are warning of a growing link between global warming and human conflict basing their arguments on the extreme drought experienced in Syria between 2006 and 2010, which they believe was as a result of...

Police fears three missing London teenage girls might be traveling to Syria to join ISIS

Amanda

Feb 20, 2015

World

The Scotland Yard fears that the three missing London schoolgirls might be headed to Syria via Turkey to join the terrorist group the Islamic State. They now have reasons to believe that the girls in question, ...

Jordan demands proof of their pilot being alive before swapping him & Japanese hostage for female terrorist on a death row

Amanda

Jan 30, 2015

World

The life of two hostages, Japanese war journalist Kenjo Goto and captured Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kasaesbeh,continues to hang in limbo. The Jordanian government had earlier agreed to release failed female sui...

24 militant belonging to ISIS group killed in clashes with Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobane

Amanda

Jan 7, 2015

World

A total of 41 terrorists belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) group have been killed in bloody clashes with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) at different places in Syria. 24 of them were killed in a...

Unmanned traffickers ship with 450 migrants captured by Italian authorities

Charles Omedo

Jan 2, 2015

World

Just three days after taking control of a Moldovan-registered freighter bearing over 700 refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war, Italian authorities have once again captured another ship ferrying 450 immigrants int...

ISIS militants capture Jordanian fighter pilot after the plane crash in Syria

Amanda

Dec 24, 2014

World

Terrorists belonging to the Islamic State group today captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane was downed over Syria. The plane was conducting air strikes in the region on Wednesday when it crashed near th...

Mortar shell injures 5 in a Turkish residential home in ISIS and Kurdish Militias fight

Charles Omedo

Oct 5, 2014

World

Following heavy fighting between Kurdish militias and the Islamic State fighters in neighboring Syria, five persons have been injured when a fired mortar hit a residential area near Kobani, Turkey. The house hi...

2nd round US Air Strikes in Syria are the start of a prolonged campaign, says U.S. Military leaders

Siddhant Ghatge

Sep 24, 2014

World

U.S. military leaders on Tuesday asserted that their aerial bombings on Syria is only the beginning of a prolonged campaign that will continue for months and will become more difficult as targeted militants see...

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