Sentences with phrase «syrian state»

In rural areas held by rebels, new institutions are cropping up to fill the void left by the receding Syrian state.

It is therefore inevitable that they must consult before taking part in an armed attack on the Syrian state.

The advent of Saladin, his destruction of the Fatimids in Egypt, and his building up of an Egyptian - Syrian state were aimed solely at the deliverance of Islam.

«Any possible action will only cause more instability in the region and threaten international security and peace,» Syrian state TV quoted Assad as saying at a meeting with a high - level Iranian delegation in Damascus.

Six civilians were also killed and dozens more wounded as Douma rebels shelled the capital Damascus on Saturday, Syrian state media said.

Syrian state media, citing a military source, then carried a similar report.

Syrian state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying a number of air defense missiles had been fired but no foreign attack had taken place.

AMMAN (Reuters)- A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and no new attack on Syria took place, Syrian state media and a military commander said on Tuesday.

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.

Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down missiles fired at an air base in the Homs area, and a media unit run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah said missiles had also targeted an air base near Damascus.

Not exact matches

Separately, a commander in the regional military alliance backing the government attributed the malfunction to «a joint electronic attack» by Israel and the United States targeting the Syrian radar system.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calls on Russia to realign itself with the U.S. and break its alliance with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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.

In Syria, where there often seem to be only bad options, helping the Syrian Kurds fight the Islamic State should be a no - brainer.

The Commons had refused the government permission to bomb Syrian government forces two years ago, but today's bill is about bombing Islamic State positions in the country.

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta on Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month - long assault by the army.

Tensions escalated on Sunday as the U.S. army brought down the jet near Raqqa and Iran launched missiles at Islamic State targets in eastern Syria — the first time each state has carried out such actions in the multi-sided SyrianState targets in eastern Syria — the first time each state has carried out such actions in the multi-sided Syrianstate has carried out such actions in the multi-sided Syrian war.

Assad's government has often criticized Western states for their support for Syrian rebel groups, all of which are regarded by Damascus as terrorists, and has warned that such backing will lead to militant attacks around the world.

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.

«The United States is gravely alarmed by continued allegations of the use of chlorine gas by the Syrian Regime to terrorize innocent civilians, this time in Idlib Province near Saraqib,» the US State Department said in a statement on Monday night.

Trump thanked France for joining with the United States and Britain in launching airstrikes in Syria earlier this month in response to a chemical weapons attack blamed on Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

The United States has insisted for months that the Syrian regime no longer has any legitimacy and is no longer recognized by Washington.

«I think that in the Syrian theater, Russia is unlikely to interfere with the coming US operation or take military steps to prevent it or in retribution, despite their comments,» Cliff Kupchan, a former US State Department official who is now chairman of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, en route to Moscow days after a U.S. missile attack on Syria, is calling on Russia to realign itself with the West and break its alliance with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In separate offensives, the SDF and the Russian - backed Syrian government are battling the Islamic State group in Deir el - Zour.

The U.S. - led coalition is currently backing a campaign by its Syrian militia allies to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa, Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.

AMMAN (Reuters)- After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.

Trump, in welcoming remarks, thanked France for joining with the United States and Britain in launching airstrikes in Syria earlier this month in response to a chemical weapons attack blamed on Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

We seem to have reached a climax since Trump signed an executive order Jan. 27th permanently banning Syrian refugees, and temporarily banning individuals from seven Muslim - majority countries, from entering the United States.

AMMAN (Reuters)- The Syrian army said on Sunday that rockets had struck several military bases in the Hama and Aleppo countryside in what it said was new «aggression» by its enemies, state television said.

Here are these Syrians as captured by Ruslan Fedotow, a student at Belorussian Academy of Arts, in his video of Syria along with facts from Department of State's profile on Syria.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

... If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago!

Carter said the United States would continue to keep boots on the ground, but would remain focused on advising and assisting Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian Arab forces to take and hold territory.

The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group.

Ties between the two countries have been strained over U.S. support for the Syrian Democratic forces, the mainly Kurdish - led militias fighting Islamic State in northern Syria with the help of U.S. forces.

«I think the perspective from the United States supported by the facts that we have are conclusive: that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and executed by Syrian regime forces, and we're quite confident of that,» Tillerson said.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

Syrian troops matched their renewed bombing with a ground operation in the orchards surrounding Douma, with state TV saying they had «stormed» the fields.

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This weekend, a family of Syrians who have been attempting to rejoin family members in the United States for more than a decade, were turned back almost immediately after touching down in the United States.

Just as leaders of Russia, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar prepared to meet to discuss ways to end the war in Syria, Syrian President Bashar al - Assad was quoted saying that his forced will continue «to clean» Aleppo, invoking genocidal language.

Islamic State has released 15 Christians that it kidnapped last month when it captured the Syrian town... More

I am disturbed... by calls from both federal and state officials for an end to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, These refugees are fleeing terror — violence like we have witnessed in Paris.

The State Department said it will stand by President Obama's decision to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country next year.

So why have only less than 3 percent of the 2,184 Syrian refugees resettled in the United States from 2011 until now been Christians?

World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, is strongly against this legislation and urges the United States to continue to welcome and protect Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Highest total since 1999 comes as federal judges rule against state attempts to ban Syrian refugees.

The number is virtually unchanged (71 %) from when Ipsos / World Vision asked the same question in October, before the City of Lights experienced tragedy and American politicians began debating state bans on Syrian refugees in response.