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Hopes for calm after clashes in southern Syria and airstrikes in Damascus

Syria

The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Istanbul-based journalist Ruth Michaelson about unrest in Syria amid clashes between minority groups, government military involvement and Israeli airstrikes in the country.

Iranians come together to help one another amid war

Conflict & Justice

Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites and kills its top generals. Iran vows ‘severe’ retaliation

Conflict & Justice

‘Nowhere in Gaza is safe,’ aid worker says

Israel-Hamas war

US urges restraint and deescalation as Israel and Iran trade attacks

Israel-Hamas war
Bashar al-Assad

President Trump, can the US act as global police and put ‘America first’?

Conflict

President Donald Trump has pledged to pursue an “America first” strategy both at home and internationally, but recent events in the Middle East have quickly put that practice to the test.

Lina Shahab is recovering in a hospital in Erbil, northern Iraq, after surviving an airstrike in Mosul.

‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak

Conflict

The Pentagon has confirmed that the ISIS-fighting coalition carried out a strike on March 17 in an area of western Mosul where residents say more than 100 civilians were killed. US officials say they’re investigating the incident.

Three men sit in rubble in white helmets

How to help: Some of the groups that worked to save Omran Daqneesh — and countless others — in Syria

Conflict

Here is a list of some of the organizations trying to rescue the massive number of Syrians caught in the nation’s civil war.Here is a list of some of the organizations trying to rescue the massive number of Syrians caught in the nation’s civil war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meet at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Putin makes Assad an offer he can’t refuse

Conflict

The embattled Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, appeared in Moscow on Tuesday night, for his first trip outside of his country since the uprising against him began in 2011. It’s a sign of his dependence on Russian military assistance. And it seems Vladimir Putin summoned Assad to get a sense of how flexible he is on his role in any political settlement or transition in Syria. Syria’s secular elite shares a deep comfort level with the arrival of Russian forces.

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of three explosions in the New Baghdad neighborhood on September 10, 2014.

The sound of US airstrikes returns to Baghdad

Conflict

US planes have started bombing ISIS militia positions near Baghdad in the first phase of the expanded campaign announced by President Obama last week. The strikes are to support Iraqi troops fighting the Islamist group and they seem to be working.