Syria
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Syria: PM calls emergency cabinet meeting as Russian TV jokes about ‘doomsday’
Speed Read Theresa May says use of chemical weapons cannot go unchallenged
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‘Get ready Russia’: Trump tweets Syria missile threat
Speed Read US president brands Assad a ‘Gas Killing Animal’ who enjoys slaughtering his own people
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Syria chemical weapons attack: time for UK to take action?
In Depth Theresa May under pressure to join retaliatory strike against Assad regime
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Syria chemical weapons attack: US denies missile strike
Speed Read Donald Trump insists US forces played no part in overnight raid as Russia and Syria blame Israel
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Syrian civil war: Turkey, Russia and Iran pledge stability as Trump seesaws
In Depth Major players urge political solution to conflict amid ‘schizophrenic messaging’ about withdrawal of US troops
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Trump freezes Syria funding, mulls U.S. withdrawal: 'Let the other people take care of it now'
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Have Western nations abandoned the Kurds?
In Depth World leaders have been reluctant to take a stand against the Turkish assault on Afrin
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Israel warns Iran over nuclear ambitions
Speed Read In a veiled threat, Israel confirms it destroyed Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007
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Anna Campbell: British woman killed fighting with all-female Kurdish militia in Syria
Speed Read The 26-year-old’s convoy was struck by a Turkish missile
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Syrian women ‘forced to trade sex for aid’
Speed Read Local men delivering aid for the UN and international charities responsible for abuse, report finds
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Syria crisis: why the UN Security Council is impotent
Speed Read Organisation has ‘inglorious history of missing chances to avert catastrophe’
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The international power players behind Syria’s ‘civil’ war
In Depth In Depth: proxy wars are under way between Israel and Iran, Turkey and the Kurds, and US and Russia
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Syria: scores of civilians killed in government air strikes
Speed Read Turkey warns Syrian army against helping Kurds repel Turkish forces in north
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Israel threatens direct action against Iran
Speed Read Benjamin Netanyahu’s heightened rhetoric comes a week after Israel and Iran clashed in Syria
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