EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh
The new triumvirate leading the way on Syria has deep roots.
Flag-wrapped coffin of late Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is carried to a plane during a ceremony at Esenboga airport in Ankara.
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Despite the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Turkey, Ankara is part of a new ad-hoc coalition with Moscow and Tehran in the MiddleEast.
A city under siege: never again?
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The images we have seen of Aleppo could play an important role in future discourses about the responsibility to protect.
Iraqi special forces soldier advancing toward Mosul, Iraq.
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What happens to the Islamic State if it loses the battle for territory in Iraq and Syria? Here’s a list of ways it might go down.
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Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that’s nothing new.
Girls are at greater risk of early marriage in refugee camps where their parents are unable to provided the necessary support.
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Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
A Syrian couple waits on the Turkish side of the Oncupinar border crossing for their parents to arrive.
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Integrating large refugee populations goes far beyond simply offering citizenship to some.
An over-crowded graveyard in Aleppo.
Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters
The international community seems totally incapable of stopping the bloodshed in Syria. But we can express our outrage.
EPA/Zouhir al Shimale
A volunteer force that provides humanitarian aid in the worst of conditions, the White Helmets are the target of some very caustic conspiracy theory.
The guided missile destroyer USS Barry deploys to sea from Naval Station Norfolk ahead of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Politicians are still debating whether climate change is real, but military planners call it a serious threat. A retired rear admiral explains how climate change affects U.S. national security.
Some Americans are fearful of allowing Syrians to resettle in the U.S.
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The US has met its goal for resettling Syrian refugees in 2016, and will aim to take in 110,000 more in 2017. A migration expert examines whether fears of their arrival are well founded.
Turning plastic into fuel in Aleppo.
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As a new cessation of hostilities comes into force, Russia’s influence over the Syrian conflict is deepening.
The Syrian government has allegedly included chlorine in its attacks on Aleppo.
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The Assad government is accused of using chlorine gas as a weapon against its own people.
Lost neighbourhoods.
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At a time of intolerable destruction, a Syrian architect looks ahead to the serious task of reconstruction.
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Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
Iraqi security forces detain a boy after removing a suicide vest from him in Kirkuk, Iraq.
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A young boy is strapped with explosives and sent to detonate himself and those around him at a school. An expert on terrorism explains how and why children become embroiled in militant conflicts.
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Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is strictly limited to Syria.
Syria’s largest city Aleppo has 85,000 children, including around 20,000 below the age of two.
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Aleppo has 85,000 children. Dozens are injured every week, just like five-year old Omran Daqneesh whose pictures have shocked the world. Many have far worse injuries and will not survive.
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh in an ambulance after an alleged airstrike hit a house in Aleppo on August 17, 2016.
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The horrors of war in tweets and hashtags.
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By striking deep in Bashar-al Assad’s heartland, Islamic State issued a reminder that his regime will never control all of Syria.