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Syria campaigners name refugee as London fire victim

Syrian campaigners on Thursday named one of the victims of the devastating west London apartment block fire as Mohammed Alhajali, a 23-year-old refugee who lived on the 14th floor of the tower. Alhajali came to Britain with his brother in 2014 and was a civil engineering student at West...

Airstrikes hit Damascus area for first time in weeks

Air strikes hit rebel-held districts east of Damascus Thursday for the first time in weeks after shells landed in parts of the capital controlled by the Syrian government, a Reuters witness and a war monitor said. Fighting and bombardment around Damascus have eased significantly since...

UN urges Russia, Iran and Turkey to free up aid to Syria

The United Nations urged Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday to open up areas of Syria to the delivery of humanitarian aid in "de-escalation" zones whose parameters the three are meant to finalize. The three countries brokered a deal in the Kazakh capital, Astana, in May to create four...