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CIVIL WAR

EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2015
The enemy of my enemy
If Russia can help end the civil war in Syria, then the rest of the world must be ready to work with it to resolve this crisis.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2015
Syrian rebels say Russian involvement will escalate and prolong war
Rebels who have inflicted big losses on Syrian President Bashar Assad say Russia's intervention in support of its ally will only lead to an escalation of the war and may encourage their Persian Gulf Arab backers to pour in more military aid.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2015
Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault
Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2015
Fabius says France has softened stance regarding Assad departure
France will not demand Syrian President Bashar Assad's departure as a precondition for peace talks, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 19, 2015
Syrian losses spooked Kremlin into hasty military build-up
For Vladimir Putin, Russia's military build-up in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine's frozen conflict. But it was a panicky realization that the Syrian government was being turned over on the battlefield that tipped the Kremlin's hand.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2015
Majority of French people favor sending troops to Syria: poll
A majority of French people are in favor of sending troops to fight Islamic State militants in Syria, a prospect that President Francois Hollande has flatly ruled out, a poll released Sunday showed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 12, 2015
Russia calls for U.S. military cooperation on Syria to avoid 'unintended incidents'
Russia called on Friday for military-to-military cooperation with the United States to avert "unintended incidents" as it stages naval exercises off the coast of Syria, where U.S. officials believe Moscow is building up forces to protect President Bashar Assad.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2015
Putin could be planning a big gamble in Syria
Is Vladimir Putin taking the risky step of dramatically increasing Russia's military role in Syria's civil war?
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2015
Failure of Syria diplomacy exposes enduring divisions over Assad
While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country's war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end the 4-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 7, 2015
Rich gulf Arab nations' refugee response questioned
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Persian Gulf states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from nearby Syria's war have found scant refuge in the Arab world's richest states.
WORLD
Aug 29, 2015
Web campaign raises $67,800 for Syria refugee family in a day
An online fundraiser has raised more than $67,800 for a refugee from Syria and his daughter after a campaigner based in Norway shared moving pictures on social media of the man selling pens in the streets of Beirut.
WORLD
Aug 26, 2015
First man from Ghana joins IS, family says
A 25-year-old Muslim from Ghana has traveled to an Islamic State training camp, becoming the first known recruit from the West African nation to join the militant group, his family said on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 11, 2015
After alleged road rage incident, relative of Assad is arrested following rare protest
Syrian authorities have arrested a relative of President Bashar Assad, the state news agency said Monday, two days after protesters called for the man's punishment over his suspected killing of an army officer in a traffic dispute.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 11, 2015
Al-Qaida in Syria leaves area where Turkey seeks buffer
The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front says it has quit frontline positions against the Islamic State group north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to set up a buffer zone.
WORLD
Aug 10, 2015
Protesters in Syria's Latakia seek punishment for Assad relative: human rights watchdog
Dozens of Syrians staged a rare protest in the coastal city of Latakia, bastion of President Bashar Assad, calling for the punishment of a member of his family they accuse of killing an army officer over a traffic dispute, monitors said.
WORLD
Aug 8, 2015
Islamic State executed 2,000 in Nineveh, Iraq says
More than 2,000 Iraqis in the northern province of Nineveh have been executed by Islamic State militants controlling the area, the defense minister said on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 26, 2015
Assad announces amnesty for estimated 70,000 draft dodgers at home, overseas
To help bolster the ranks of an army severely depleted by four years of battling armed insurgents, Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday announced an amnesty for men at home and abroad who have dodged conscription.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 22, 2015
U.S. general touts putting air controllers with Iraqi troops, giving Ukraine 'lethal equipment'
Putting U.S. air controllers with Iraqi forces closer to combat areas so they can identify and direct bombing would improve airstrikes on Islamic State rebel targets and should be "seriously considered," a top U.S. general told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jul 22, 2015
Islamic State-linked suicide attack unlikely to change Turkish stance on intervention in Syria
A suspected Islamic State suicide bombing that killed 32 people in a Turkish border town is unlikely to push Ankara to strike against the group in Syria, where it still sees Kurdish separatism and President Bashar Assad as the major threats.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 22, 2015
Syrian Islamists, courting West, say they will protect minorities
A conservative Islamist rebel group said on Tuesday it would protect Syria's minorities, pressing a campaign in Western media to address concerns about one of the most powerful insurgent forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad.

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