Sentence examples for syria from inspiring English sources

Close observers of his military say Syria is having trouble keeping its sophisticated and maintenance-intensive weapons functioning.

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Since then we have seen the terror threat level raised to severe and an increase in police arrests linked to terrorist activity in Syria.

The mission – which has already seen OPCW inspectors come under sniper fire – was agreed as a means to avoid US-led militactiontion against Syria following a gas attack blamed on forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in August which killed more than 1,400 people.

David Cameron was only prevented by a failed vote in the Commons from taking us into the war in Syria in support of the US.

It is not just the futility of eight years of fighting in Iraq, frustration in Afghanistan, the loss of thousands of soldiers' lives and the maiming of tens of thousands more that are causing so much doubt over a US attack on Syria now.

His early role in what would become Isis led naturally to the senior position he now occupies within a revitalised insurgency that has spilled across the border into Syria.

These were the precursors to the juggernaut now known simply as the Islamic State, which has, under Bagdhadi's command, overrun much of the west and centre of the country and eastern Syria, and drawn the US military back to a deeply destabilised region less than three years after it left vowing never to return.

Speaking in Cairo, he said: "As I move to Syria, we will do whatever we can to urge and press for a cessation of hostilities and end to the killing and violence.

Amos met the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, on Wednesday and an aide said he told her she would be able to go anywhere in Syria she wished to.

Amnesty says the satellite image analysis adds to a growing body of evidence of potential war crimes in the Syria conflict.