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BELGRADE - Russian ambitions and aggressiveness keep the conflict in Syria going on, US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Sunday, accusing Russia of sufferings of the Syrian people.

Winter is coming and you are invited to visit Syria. That seems to be the latest message from the Syrian Ministry of Tourism in a “Game of Thrones” inspired video.
The video was released last week by the Syrian Ministry of Tourism on their Facebook page that seems to be in on the social media site since the start of the year but has yet to be verified by Facebook.

'The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East' by Christopher Phillips (Yale University Press, $30, 320 pages)

U.S. President Barack Obama has praised a recent deal on migrants between the European Union and Turkey, saying the deal was a step toward fairer sharing of the job of housing migrants.

Turkey, as a country shaken through consecutive massive terror activities, is currently in the middle of a ring of fire, the Turkish prime minister has said, adding its security starts off its Syria-Iraqi borders and over a line passing through Syria's Latakia, Aleppo and Iraq's Mosul and Sulaymaniyah. 

Syrian forces recaptured Palmyra from ISIS on Sunday, months after the city fell to the Islamic State terrorists, state media reported.

Military sources said the Syrian army now has “full control” of the city. It had been gaining ground for several days, supported by Russian air strikes, BBC reported.

No foreign power should be permitted to interfere in the ongoing Syrian peace talks in Geneva, the lead government negotiator said, denying that high-level US-Russian meetings in Moscow will impact the process.

Putin's sudden announcement of partial withdrawal from Syria left us all stunned. Why would any leader withdraw his soldiers in the midst of a war? What is Putin after?

The United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop after a cease-fire deal was reached to take effect as of Feb. 27.

The fall of the town of Azez in northern Aleppo province where the Turkish military is pushing ahead with its cross-border artillery shelling campaign against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia positions in Syria would mean emergence of a new refugee influx and security problem for Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an told his U.S. counterpart, President Barack Obama.