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Syria probe mission on hold amid security fears
During a reconnaissance mission “the team came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated,” says OPCW chief.
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500 Syrian refugees begin returning home from Lebanon
Syrian government has provided 15 buses for refugees returning from Shebaa.
Putin predicts global chaos if West hits Syria again
Putin and Rouhani agree that the strikes have damaged the chances of achieving a political resolution in the conflict.
Syria: from 'chemical attack' to military strikes
A recap of events that began with a suspected gas attack and ended in retaliatory military strikes by the West in Syria.
West is hypocritical about chemical warfare in Middle East
How could Theresa May follow an American president who the world knows is crackers, insane, chronically unstable?
US, UK and France's attack on Syria draws ire from Assad, allies
Syria denounces Western attack as "barbaric", Russia calls for emergency UN session.
Military strikes on Syria are meant to deter Assad from chemical attacks, claims Trump
British PM Theresa May insists the attacks are not meant to "intervene in a civil war" or "regime change".
Syria strike: world powers weigh pros and cons
US, France and Britain are finalising plans for an expected strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Syria's ruined Ghouta unrecognisable to returnees
“I risked my life to come..I won't leave until I find my home...I want one look even if it's the last," says one woman.
As US-Russia tension mounts, UN warns against letting Syria crisis 'spiral' out of control
Opponents of unilateral US action call emergency closed-door UN meeting; UK also schedules emergency cabinet meeting.
‘Smart’ US missiles will hit Syria, Trump warns Russia in warlike tweet
With renewed US military action seemingly imminent, both Washington and Moscow raised the rhetorical stakes.
Iran says 7 dead in Syria strike will 'not go unanswered'
Seven soldiers' bodies flown to Tehran for burial after Monday's strike which Syria, Russia and Iran blame Israel for.
Syria blames Israel for deadly strikes on airbase
Syrian war-monitoring group says 14 people, including Iranians, killed in a missile attack early in the morning.
Urgent UN Security Council meeting sought on Syria gas attack
France initiates the call, followed by the US, Britain, Kuwait, Sweden, Poland, Peru, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast.
'Big price to pay after mindless Syria attack,' says Trump
"President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad," tweets US president.
40 killed in gas attack near Syrian capital: rescuers, medics
First responders, known as White Helmets, report the attack, say entire families found suffocated in homes and shelters.
Trump tells advisers he wants troops out of Syria
“Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon, very soon, we’re coming out."
Damascus’s ‘leave or die’ tactics force Syrians to flee rebel enclave
Government forces hold 90 per cent area of Ghouta.
Syrian rebels quit another stronghold in eastern Ghouta
About 7,000 people would depart in the deal starting on Saturday morning, including fighters carrying light weapons.
First rebels leave Syria enclave under Russian-brokered deal
The evacuation will likely pressure rebel groups in the remaining two pockets of Ghouta to accept similar deals.
120 killed in Syria as govt, rebels pound populated areas
44 people, mostly women and children, killed in one of the deadliest attacks in Damascus in the seven-year civil war.
Rebel rocket fire kills 29 in Damascus suburb: Syrian state TV
The rocket fire by “terrorist groups” also wounded 23 people in the Jaramana area east of Damascus.
Turkey's Erdogan says Afrin city centre under 'total' control
Afrin is one of many fronts in the Syrian war which has left 350,00 dead and displaced millions of people since 2011.
Turkish-led assault on Syria's Afrin displaced 30,000 in a day
Hundreds of families crammed into the back of trucks and tractor carts to leave the city via the only remaining exit.
Syria war has killed more than 350,000 in 7 years: monitor
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 106,390 civilians have been killed in seven years.
Syria army bombs splintered Ghouta enclave as bodies pile up
The deaths bring the total toll from the government offensive to at least 1,102 civilians, according to SOHR.
Food arrives in Syria's battered Eastern Ghouta
13 trucks loaded with 2,400 food parcels crossed into Eastern Ghouta, entering what has been called “hell on earth”.
Civilian suffering worse than ever in 7-year Syria war: UN
More than 340,000 people have been killed since then in a conflict the UN says caused the worst displacement since WWII.
Syria regime retakes quarter of rebel enclave as civilians flee
Syria's advance into the last major opposition enclave near the capital has left more than 640 civilians dead.
Syria regime strikes rebel enclave as aid trucks wait
More than 40 trucks loaded with aid were unable to reach the 400,000 people living in the battered enclave.