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Syria and Ukraine: two fronts in Russian war for influence

Russia's air strikes in Syria are in part designed to extract concessions from the West over Ukraine by making Moscow a key player in any attempts by world powers to hammer out a post-conflict settlement in Damascus, some Western officials believe. While the Syrian capital lies...

Syrian Kurdish militia says war could last 10 years

The commander of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia said the country's civil war could continue for 10 years, in an interview published Thursday by monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sipan Hemo, whose group has seized wide areas of territory from ISIS in northeast Syria this...