Syria

After U.S. Troops Leave Syria, What Happens Next?

11:43pm December 19, 2018

by Greg Myre

The limited U.S. force has had a large impact on Syria's war, beating back ISIS and bringing relative calm to one corner of the country. President Trump's critics fear those gains could be lost.

American troops look toward the border with Turkey from a small outpost near the town of Manbij, northern Syria, in February.

White House Orders Pentagon To Pull U.S. Troops From Syria

2:06pm December 19, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

U.S. troops have been in Syria since late 2015. The move is a reversal of U.S. policy: Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said troops would stay to stabilize the country.

People walk through Ain Issa, one of the camps that holds displaced Syrians as well as foreign wives of ISIS fighters and their children. Thousands of foreign women and children languish in shelters in northeastern Syria, unwanted by their home government

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Foreign Wives And Children Of ISIS Are Held In Syria With Uncertain Future

12:39pm December 07, 2018

Kurdish officials in northeastern Syria say they are holding 550 foreign women whom they captured after defeating ISIS, as well as about 1,200 foreign children.

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Raqqa's first responders use a digger to push through the rubble of a building likely destroyed in an airstrike carried out by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.

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'Entire Families Wiped Out': U.S. Airstrikes Killed Many Civilians In Syria

11:45am November 09, 2018

Rescuers working to dig out and identify corpses from last year's anti-ISIS offensive in Raqqa estimate there were "thousands" of civilian casualties. The U.S.-led coalition acknowledges 104.

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by U.S. special forces, talks on the radio near Raqqa's stadium as they clear the last positions on the front line on Oct. 16, 2017. The city was an important Islamic State group stronghold.

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'This Is Not Liberation': Life In The Rubble Of Raqqa, Syria

1:21pm October 26, 2018

The city's slow recovery after ISIS rule is causing anger among residents who say they're left with little help from the countries that destroyed Raqqa.

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Men walk past a TV screen showing a news program with an image of Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, on Wednesday. Yasuda, who disappeared three years ago in Syria, has been released and is now in Turkey, a Japanese official said.

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Japanese Journalist Is Freed After 3 Years As Captive In Syria

7:15am October 24, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

Jumpei Yasuda was taken hostage by al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, in 2015. Japanese officials say he was freed on Tuesday and is now in Turkey.

U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, shown here at a conference in April, says he will leave his post the last week of November.

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U.N. Syria Envoy Staffan De Mistura Is Stepping Down

11:53am October 18, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

De Mistura told the U.N. Security Council he was leaving for "purely personal reasons." In his final month, he plans to make a major push to try to lay the groundwork for a new constitution in Syria.

Schoolchildren are led through a dance routine at a U.S. government-supported childcare center in Raqqa.

In Syria, A School Helps Children Traumatized By War

7:50pm October 17, 2018

by Tom Bowman

"What we found is children had been so traumatized, they couldn't even recognize numbers or letters," says a U.S. official. "We had to work through that before we could start educating them again."

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North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister Herbert Reul, seen with police officers, apologized for mistakes that left a Syrian man falsely imprisoned and then dead when a fire broke out in the jail.

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German Minister Apologizes For Mistakenly Imprisoning Syrian Who Died After Jail Fire

7:17pm October 05, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The man was arrested for failing to pay a fine for theft, but police officers did not thoroughly check his identity. The 26-year-old died of injuries after a fire broke out in the jail.

A member of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the "White Helmets," walking through the wreckage of their center, which was destroyed Thursday by government forces in the town of al-Tamana in rebel-held Idlib province.

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U.S. Envoy Warns That Syria Preparing To Use Chemical Weapons In Idlib

8:21am September 07, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Special Representative for Syrian Engagement Jim Jeffrey says the U.S. has "lots of evidence" that the Damascus government is preparing for a "reckless escalation" of the conflict.