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Syria relies on Russia’s oil despite pivot to the West

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Syria's history

Syria or where abstract symbols first became structured language

Damascus exhibition reveals Syria’s role in the birth of writing

Israel-Syria unrest

Olabi: Israeli forces are seeking to provoke the Syrian population

UN and Syria accuse Israel of destabilising south as tensions mount

Cultural heritage

Beyond tradition and technique, the craft is also gaining renewed relevance

In Damascus Citadel, father and son keep Syria’s pottery craft alive

Syria's transitional justice

Atif Najib, a relative of Assad, appeared in court in handcuffs

Syria opens first Assad-era trial as transitional justice process begins

Trial of IS jihadists

Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters

Iraq sentences two more French IS jihadists to death

Syria Displaced

Tens of thousands of people, jihadists as well as their families and civilians they detained, fled eastern Syria

Norway receives five IS orphans as Syria camps evacuated

Assault on Idlib

The aerial bombardment on Monday did not relent

Syria regime pounds jihadist bastion

Islamic State

Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Iraqi interrogators of "using a range of torture techniques"

Iraq sentences eighth French jihadist to death

Golan Heights

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes.

Israeli missile strike kills three Syrian soldiers

Syrian War

People walk past a damaged building in the city of Idlib

Russia says Idlib violence is Turkey's responsibility

Counter-terrorism

Yazidi woman Ashwaq Haji, allegedly used by the Islamic State group (IS) as a sex slave, holds portraits of jihadists' victims from her village of Kocho near Sinjar

Yazidis sue Germany for failing to repatriate IS fighters

Counter-terrorism

About 1,100 children of Islamic State fighters are caught in the Iraqi justice system

Iraq hands over Turkish children of suspected jihadists

US war on IS jihadists

Captured by Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria and sent to Iraq

IS suspects transferred by US from Syria to Iraq

Syrian War

Syrians gather at the site of regime bombardment on the village of Kafr Halab

Regime strikes on Syria rebel enclave kill 10

Syrian War

White helmet rescue volunteers and civilians search for survivors amidst the rubble of a building

Civilian toll mounts as Syria regime bombs northwest region

Heritage

A general view shows the ancient Christian town of Maalula

In Syria's Maalula, Christ's language is disappearing

Turkey - Russia

In the last 24 hours, the Syrian army has been sending large troop reinforcements ahead of opening a new front

Turkish weapons used by rebels in Idlib

Syrian Refugees

A Lebanese army soldier stand guards in front of Syrian refugees who stand outside their tent to watch the opening ceremony of a school for Syrian refugees, in the Bekaa valley

Lebanon denies forcing Syrians home from Beirut airport

Smoke plumes rising following reported Syrian government forces' bombardment on the town of Khan Sheikhun

Civilians killed in air strikes as Syria army battles jihadists

Syria Displaced

Residents displaced from the latest violence that hit the last rebel stronghold taking refuge in olive orchard near the town of al-Atmeh

Syrian displaced call on Turkey to open border

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