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January 9, 2017

US pilots report numerous close calls with Russian jets over Syria

One night this past fall, a U.S. radar plane flying a routine pattern over Syria picked up a signal from an incoming Russian fighter jet.

January 9, 2017

New cubs of the caliphate: ISIS video shows kids killing prisoners in amusement park

Shocking footage of ISIS’ child recruits beheading and shooting three men has been released by the terror group.

January 7, 2017

Russia announces military drawdown in Syria

Russia’s top general said Friday his country would draw down its military presence in Syria, starting with a withdrawal of its warships from the eastern Mediterranean.

January 7, 2017

Car bomb kills at least 48 in rebel-held Syria town, activists say

A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial district in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border Saturday, killing nearly 50 in a huge explosion that damaged buildings and left rescuers scrambling to find survivors amid the wreckage, opposition activists said.

January 5, 2017

Al-Qaida-linked group in Syria calls cease-fire 'humiliating'

An al-Qaida-linked group in Syria says a nearly week-old cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey is "humiliating" and that those who agreed to it made a "big mistake."

January 4, 2017

Turkey: Truce violations put Syria talks at risk

Turkey says repeated cease-fire violations by the Syrian government are threatening to derail scheduled peace talks in Kazakhstan.

December 31, 2016

Sporadic fighting mars second day of Syria cease-fire

Parts of Syria saw continued fighting Saturday, on the second day of a nationwide cease-fire intended to pave the way for peace talks between the government and the opposition in the new year.

December 30, 2016

Aleppo's orphans replay their trauma with war games in the rubble

Since the fall of Aleppo to Syrian government forces last week, the outskirts of the battered city have become a mass of displacement camps where tiny children don't play hide and seek -- they play hide and shoot.

December 30, 2016

Syria's nationwide cease-fire holding despite minor violations

A nationwide Syrian cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey that went into effect at midnight was holding Friday despite minor violations, marking a potential breakthrough in a conflict that has been shredding high-level peace initiatives for over five years.

December 29, 2016

Cease-fire goes into force in war-ravaged Syria

A cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey went into effect in war-ravaged Syria at midnight Thursday, a potential breakthrough in the six years of fighting that have left more than a quarter-million people dead and triggered a refugee crisis across Europe.