All news on the topic: Syria conflict

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The Syrian regime outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive Nazis
Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population.
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Ministers urged not to allow Assad’s British wife to return to the UK after reports she is unhappy with life in Moscow
Ministers have been urged not to let the British wife of deposed Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad come back to the UK amid reports she has become unhappy with life in Russia.
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Turkey says more than 25,000 Syrians have returned home since Assad’s fall
More than 25,000 Syrians have returned home from Turkey since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist-led HTS rebels, Turkey’s interior minister said Tuesday.
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Assad’s British wife ’files for divorce’ from Syrian dictator and plans to move to London
The British wife of Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, who is currently in exile in Moscow, has reportedly filed for divorce and wants to move to London as she is not happy in Russia
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Israeli airstrikes on Tartus mark the heaviest attack on Syria’s coast since 2012
Explosions rocked the sky above Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the country’s coastal region - with one blast detected on earthquake sensors
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UK announces £50m in emergency aid for vulnerable Syrians
Foreign secretary says Britain is also working diplomatically to secure better governance in Syria after ousting of Assad
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Assad’s torture victims speak out as Syrian torture chamber horrors are finally exposed
Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced
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How the drug trade funded Bashar al-Assad’s £5 billion regime in Syria
Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.
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UK monitoring British jihadists in Syria closely
Any prospect of British jihadists returning from Syria would be "a concern" and the UK is keeping "a very close eye" on the situation, a Home Office minister has said.
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Israel plans to establish a ’sterile defensive zone’ in Syria while dismissing claims of IDF tanks nearing Damascus as ’fake news’
Israel will set up a “sterile defensive zone” in Southern Syria, the country’s Defence Minister reportedly said on Tuesday.
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US conducts mass airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria following rebel takeover
As statues of Assad and his father Hafez were being toppled across Syria, in Damascus a jubilant Ghazal al-Sharif was rejoicing. He said: “Damn his soul and the soul of the entire Assad family"
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Syrian Islamist rebels sweep into Aleppo as government and Russian planes ’bomb city’
Syrian rebels are said to have taken over around half of Aleppo, with government and Russian forces reported to be bombing the city.
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Syrian rebels enter Aleppo for the first time since 2016
Syrian rebels have breached Aleppo for the first time since 2016 following a shock offensive earlier this week, according to war monitors and fighters.
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Israeli airstrike on Iran consulate in Syria kills six reportedly including IRGC commander
Mohammad Reza Zahedi of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps reportedly among dead in Damascus attack
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'If Shamima Begum was white, she'd be home by now'
As the Court of Appeal rules she should be stripped of her citizenship, Fleet Street Fox asks what the heck we're playing at
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'When ISIS snatched John Cantlie my stomach sank - I felt the dragon waking'
Nicky Perfect experienced many highs and lows in her time as a Met police hostage negotiator - but the hardest to handle was the ISIS kidnapping of a British journalist in Syria
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Syrian doctor's cluster bombs warning with patient's 'eyes shredded to pieces'
Doctor Muhammad Walid Tamer was treating patients at a hospital in Syria when it came under attack from cluster bombs - he has warned Biden about the risks of sending them to Ukraine
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Russian fighter jets 'harass' US drones over Syria in dramaticnewly released vid
The near misses between US Air Force drones and Russian jet fights is just the latest incident in a long line over eastern Syria where 900 troops are still based
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ISIS bride chained up five-year-old girl in sun and let her die of thirst
Jennifer Wenisch, 31, and her husband, an ISIS fighter, bought the five-year-old girl and her mother as slaves in Iraq before they chained her up in the scorching sun and left her to die