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Over 6,700 civilians killed in Syria in 2018: Report

A total of 6,964 civilians were killed in Syria in 2018, a rights group said. In a report released on Jan. 12, the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Bashar al-Assad regime forces were responsible for 4,162 of these civilian deaths, including 713 children and 562...

Fixing the environment: when solutions become problems

In a world where climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, ozone depletion, and other environmental problems overlap, a fix in one arena can cause trouble in another. Here are a few examples of what might be called Earth's "zero-sum" dilemma in the 21st...

Assad lost legitimacy, British envoy says

The Assad regime in Syria “lost its legitimacy due to its atrocities against Syrian people,” according to Martin Longden, the U.K.’s special representative for Syria. Longden said on Twitter on Tuesday that the U.K. closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012 and “we have no plans to...

Bolton warns Syria against use of chemical weapons

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has warned the Syrian government it should not see the impending U.S. military withdrawal from the country as an invitation to use chemical weapons. U.S. President Donald Trump said in December that U.S. troops had succeeded in their mission to...