Syria

Climate change and conflict, a perfect storm

World 18:14 29/11/2015

As more than 150 world leaders prepared to meet under heightened security, analysts warned of an increasingly war-torn future facing humanity if they fail to limit global warming

Russia carries out first air strikes in Syria: US

World 20:00 30/09/2015

A US official said the strike was near the city of Homs in what is Moscow's first engagement in a distant theatre of war since the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan

IS downs warplane over Syria, claims capture of Jordan pilot

World 20:30 24/12/2014

The IS branch in Raqa published photographs on jihadist websites purporting to show its fighters holding the captured pilot, with a caption identifying him as Jordanian.

Syrian minister says U.S-led strikes going in "right direction"

World 21:00 24/09/2014

A Syrian government minister said U.S.-led air strikes against militants are going in the "right direction" because the government had been informed before they started

Kerry in Iraq backs government, to build support against Islamic State

World 20:30 10/09/2014

Kerry said he was impressed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's plans to rebuild the Iraqi military and push broad political reforms.

Over 400 killed in 10-day air blitz of Syria's Aleppo: NGO

World 21:30 25/12/2013

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that by Tuesday night the toll since December 15 from air strikes and a bombing campaign using barrels packed with TNT stood at 410. Also among the dead were 34 women, 30 rebel fighters and nine jihadists

Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership

World 22:00 25/09/2013

Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front

Syrian forces responsible for Banias massacres: U.N. report

World 22:00 11/09/2013

The report documented eight mass killings in all, attributing all but one to government forces, but said both government and rebel fighters had committed war crimes including murder, hostage-taking and shelling of civilians in their battle for territory

Opposition says as many as 1,300 killed in gas attack near Damascus

World 21:30 21/08/2013

Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators - who arrived in Damascus just three days ago - to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war