# damascus - Sunday 15 April, 2018
Meanwhile, a Russian resolution calling for condemnation of the US, British, and French missile strikes on Syria has failed at the UN Security Council.
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# damascus - Sunday 2 July, 2017
It’s the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months.
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# damascus - Thursday 27 April, 2017
It’s not immediately clear if it was the result of an air strike or a ground attack.
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# damascus - Saturday 11 March, 2017
Attacks are rare in the Syrian government stronghold.
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# damascus - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo as of 7am this morning, Russia’s defence minister said.
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# damascus - Saturday 11 June, 2016
A suicide bomber and a car bomb went off at the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in Damascus this morning.
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# damascus - Saturday 27 February, 2016
Fighting groups in Syria agreed to cease hostilities at midnight.
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# damascus - Thursday 7 January, 2016
The UN said the Syrian government has now given permission for aid deliveries after the images were shared all across the world.
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# damascus - Saturday 12 December, 2015
The country’s oil revenues have imploded.
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# damascus - Thursday 22 October, 2015
The footage is a rare aerial view of the extent of the destruction in Syria.
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# damascus - Wednesday 24 December, 2014
If the jihadists secure even more control, there are some frightening scenes ahead.
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# damascus - Tuesday 13 May, 2014
Human Rights Watch say that barrel bombs embedded with cylinders of chlorine gas were dropped on three towns.
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# damascus - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
Up to 60 people were killed in attacks on Damascus and Homs yesterday.
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# damascus - Saturday 21 December, 2013
The family of Dr Abbas Khan spoke to BBC News about their anger following his death in a Syrian prison.
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# damascus - Monday 7 October, 2013
Syria’s quick compliance with the destroying of chemical weapons stockpile has earned praise from US Secretary of State John Kerry.
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# damascus - Sunday 6 October, 2013
The team charged with the destruction of the weapons began the process this morning, a source in the international mission has said.
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# damascus - Saturday 21 September, 2013
Inspectors are reviewing the latest chemical weapons disclosure by Syrian officials.
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# damascus - Monday 16 September, 2013
Ban Ki-moon says UN invesigators have confirmed “unequivocally and objectively” that chemical weapons, including sarin, were used.
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# damascus - Sunday 8 September, 2013
The interview is the first given by Assad in two years.
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# damascus - Saturday 7 September, 2013
The group of EU foreign ministers have pointed the finger of blame for the alleged murders on the Assad regime.
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# damascus - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
A year ago, the figure was around 230,000. One million Syrian children are now living as refugees.
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# damascus - Sunday 1 September, 2013
Obama says America is ready for strike action following the chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,400 people.
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# damascus - Saturday 31 August, 2013
The team will head to The Hague to assess the evidence gathered during their probe.
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# damascus - Friday 30 August, 2013
The US Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier that “the question is no longer what do we know, the question is what we in the international community do now.”
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# damascus - Wednesday 28 August, 2013
Statistically, it’s unlikely you live in any of them.
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# damascus - Monday 26 August, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# damascus - Friday 23 August, 2013
Using chemical weapons and targeting innocent civilians are war crimes. But so is silence – and every day we sit back while this slaughter continues is another day that we have facilitated the killing of innocent people, writes Maurice McQuillan.
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# damascus - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
Pro-opposition groups say that government forces used a “poisonous gas” in an attack earlier today but the government says the reports are “totally false”.
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# damascus - Monday 6 May, 2013
A member of a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes says it appears that the rebels are using sarin gas.
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# damascus - Sunday 5 May, 2013
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
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# damascus - Saturday 4 May, 2013
At least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria so far, including 122 people killed in violence yesterday.
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# damascus - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
The explosion took place in the central district of Marjeh, Syrian state television said.
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# damascus - Monday 29 April, 2013
Wael al-Halqi was travelling through Damascus when his convoy was targeted earlier today, Syrian state television reports.
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# damascus - Friday 22 March, 2013
The statement was made after a suicide bomb at the Iman Mosque in Damascus.
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# damascus - Monday 25 February, 2013
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem is the first high-ranking regime official to say the government is prepared to talk with rebels.
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# damascus - Friday 22 February, 2013
Almost 60 people were killed in the blast that rocked the city with many children among those wounded.
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# damascus - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Russia’s foreign ministry said it was “deeply concerned” by the Syrian claims and that it was taking “urgent measures” to clarify the situation.
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# damascus - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
The U.N. chief also appealed for a major boost in international relief aid for Syria.
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# damascus - Friday 4 January, 2013
Over 160 people died in violence across the country yesterday, including 72 civilians.
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# damascus - Saturday 29 December, 2012
In the midst of the conflict, death and hurt, some rare smiles and moments of joy are captured by some of the world’s bravest photographers.
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