Sentences with phrase «syrian people»

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The first was that Assad did not declare everything — a reality that Kerry acknowledged in a farewell memo to staff, in which he wrote that «unfortunately other undeclared chemical weapons continue to be used ruthlessly against the Syrian people.»

Let's take a look at Lebanon, which is housing over one million Syrian people, while France only took in 5,000 Syrians.

Amid the calls for military action, it is easy to lose sight of what would most benefit the Syrian people.

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The terrible suffering of the Syrian people must be brought to an end as soon as possible and every intervention must be judged on what contribution it makes to that outcome.

Downing Street has refused to back calls by senior Tory MPs for «humanitarian safe enclaves» to protect the Syrian people.

«Such a step would have an inevitable effect on the Syrian people.

«Her Majesty's government has decided to recognise the national coalition of Syrian revolution and opposition forces as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people,» he told the Commons

Mr Hague said he wanted to see «concrete action» from the Syrian president if he was to restore any credibility with the Syrian people.

The decision to oppose what seemed like the inevitable move to intervention drew plaudits from the party's leftist, anti-war support, but led others to question whether political concerns had taken precedence over the fate of the Syrian people.

«You have to put the Armageddon question the other way - if no action takes place following this appalling use of chemical weapons, what sort of Armageddon will the Syrian people be facing?»

A full economic embargo of Syria would bring the situation to a head, and prevent the Syrian people's suffering being prolonged.

My fellow Syrian swimmer (Mardini) are also representing the broken Syrian people who have faced widespread injustice these past few years.

The continuing violence and deaths inflicted on the Syrian people in Aleppo has been described as «evil»... More

«He grew to love and admire the Syrian people and felt at home there.

«When he saw the suffering of the Syrian people, he went to Turkey and founded an organisation to provide aid and assistance.

This week marks the sixth year of the Syrian civil war which began when the Syrian people started denouncing President Bashar al - Assad's government.

On Facebook Mr Foley's mum Diane said: «He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.

«With that vote Russia made a commitment to us, to the Syrian people, and the world to stop the killing in Syria,» Haley said of February's UN Security Council ceasefire in Syria.

It was «not against the Syrian people», he said.

Syria's President Bashar al - Assad said President Donald Trump's ban on Syrians entering the United States targeted terrorists, not the Syrian people, appearing to defend the logic of the measure in an interview broadcast on Thursday.

«After all, butchering the Syrian people to save the Assad regime is an important Russian goal,» the statement continued.

Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, said there's a «lack of interest and lack of support for mutual and impartial humanitarian access to Syrian people» among the international community.

Not exact matches

Investigative journalist Eliot Higgins called out the social network in 2014 for removing crucial details about the Syrian government's attacks on its own people, by deleting pages posted by rebel groups.

Jonathan Miller, Channel 4's foreign affairs correspondent, investigates footage taken from thousands of videos circulating online, with the aim of determining whether or not there is prima facie evidence of widespread and systematic torture being carried out by the Syrian state on its own people.

President Donald Trump recently launched a salvo of 59 Tomahawk guided - missiles from two Navy destroyers at a Syrian air base in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government are suspected of having used nerve - agent and chlorine gases against people living in Douma, Syria, on April 7, killing dozens and injuring hundreds of men, women, and children.

The Syrian army immediately accused the US of «blatant aggression,» saying the strikes killed six people and caused «big material losses.»

The order, which bars admission of Syrian refugees and suspends travel to the United States from Syria, Iraq, Iran and four other countries on national security grounds, has led to the detention or deportation of hundreds of people arriving at U.S. airports.

U.S. Special Operations forces have been providing air support, training and supplies for the Syrian Kurdish group, the People's Protection Units, known as the «YPG» from its Kurdish initials.

Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the country in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people and pitted multiple warring sides against each other, including jihadists who have come to dominate the insurgency in many areas.

The United Nations voiced deep concern about reports of Syrian soldiers and allied Iraqi fighters summarily shooting dead 82 people in east Aleppo districts this week - accusations denied by the army and the Iraqi militia in question.

The bombing represents a major escalation in the West's confrontation with Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's superpower ally Russia, but is unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people in the past seven years.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 12,500 people left towards government territory.

It came one week after an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad that killed at least 60 people.

«The reports that are on TV about... well, you know, about Syria and the 25 people that are wounded there from the Syrian f — army and — well... to make it short, we've had our asses f — kicked.

«Given the Syrian regime's continuing assault on its own people... we have taken steps to further restrict entry of even the few remaining Syrian officials.»

which serves 470,000 Syrians inside the country and has about 100 people in the area, is expanding its digital cash programs to give refugee families from Aleppo $ 75 as they arrive in welcome centers.

In the past week, more than 30,000 people have fled Aleppo, running in the face of militias loyal to the Syrian government.

Jaish al - Islam, however, believed it could avoid the same fate even as Syrian troops encircled Douma, saying it wanted to protect the town and its people from forced displacement imposed by the Assad government.

The next evening, more than 500 people, mostly women and children, began arriving at medical centers in Douma showing symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent, according to Syrian American Medical Society, a relief organization.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

On Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British war monitor, said about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since it began in 2011, with 85 % of those being killed by Assad's government.

Steve Jobs — the biological son of a Syrian immigrant — considered Grove one of his personal idols, and in 1997 Grove was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

More than 150,000 people fled Afrin in recent days, the Syrian Observatory said, as Turkey pressed on with its campaign despite a U.N. Security Council call for a 30 - day ceasefire across Syria.

The Western countries said the strikes were aimed at preventing more Syrian chemical weapons attacks after a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7 killed up to 75 people.

A Whatsapp group run by the Kurdish - dominated Syrian Democratic Forces said Turkish and Syrian rebel troops tore down a statue in Afrin, in what it called a «blatant violation of Kurdish people's culture and history».

«Chemical weapons have once again been used on Syrian men, women and children,» Haley said at Monday's meeting to discuss what appeared to be a chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49 people dead and scores injured.

Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting since the country's uprising began six months ago, an activist said Monday.