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2 days ago · UN officials warn Syria’s war is becoming 'deeply entrenched'. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 507,000 people have been killed since the war began in 2011. Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011 when the regime violently cracked down on pro-democracy protests [Getty] The UN on Thursday warned of the ...
May 24, 2024 · Updated 4:07 PM PDT, May 24, 2024. PARIS (AP) — A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the first such case in Europe. The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged 2013 ...
2 days ago · Yom Kippur War, damaging war between Egypt, Syria, and Israel in October 1973. After years of sporadic fighting since 1967, Egypt and Syria launched a full-scale assault, overwhelming Israel before U.S. support helped Israel turn the tide. The war led Israel to negotiate on terms more favorable to the Arab countries.
May 19, 2024 · Failure to invest in the health of the Syrian people will only deepen instability in the war-ravaged country and pose threats to regional and global security, a senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Lives are at risk, and "the cost of inaction is simply too high," Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the ...
May 26, 2024 · Syria’s devastating civil war, now in its 14th year, remains largely frozen and so are efforts to find a viable political solution to end it, while millions of Syrians have been pulled into poverty, and struggle with accessing food and health care as the economy deteriorates across the country’s front lines.
3 days ago · The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, [60] the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took place in the Sinai Peninsula and ...
May 20, 2024 · The Syrian civil war is a continuing, multi-faceted conflict in Syria. It is being waged between the Syrian Arab Republic, led by President Bashar al-Assad and supported by both domestic and foreign allies, and a diverse array of domestic and foreign forces.
