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US expands northern Syria airfield for huge cargo plane

The United States has expanded a runway at a northern Syria air base to accommodate the large C-17 military plane needed to help with logistics for the push to retake the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The huge military air freighter will play an essential...

Conference on Syria overshadowed by chemical attack

The European Union's aid chief called for more humanitarian access in Syria on Tuesday at an international conference meant to support the country's ailing peace prospects, but one that quickly got overshadowed by a chemical attack inside Syria. As Christos Stylianides spoke at the gathering...

Syria attack believed to be chemical, from the air

U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday that a "horrific" attack on a rebel-held town in the country that killed at least 58 people was believed to be chemical and launched from the air. "What we have understood, it was a chemical attack and it came from the air," de Mistura told...