After six years of war in Syria that has killed hundreds of thousands, the guns are still firing and the devastation continues.
There is new fighting in Damascus and in central Syria. And, the major push to drive ISIL out of its stronghold in Raqqa is still to come. All of this as interested parties like Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and the Kurds have stakes in the outcome.
Meanwhile, the United States is engaged too and a U.S. Senator warned over the weekend that President Donald Trump is dragging America deeper into the war.
Still, peace efforts have been underway in Geneva where the United Nations envoy for Syria is trying to move things forward.
For the latest details on what’s happening and Syria and how things are changing, CGTN’s Alaa Ebrahim reports.
For more on the Syrian civil war:
- Mohamed Ali, a Syrian journalist who has covered the conflict since it began in 2011
- Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm
- Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
- Rustem Safronov, a Russian journalist and analyst for Radio Sputnik
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.@Coalition strikes yesterday in #Syria destroyed 18 ISIS targets near #Raqqah, #DayrAzZawr, #Palmyra, #Tabaqah & #AbuKamal. #DefeatingISIS pic.twitter.com/ocNM1rWFWJ
— U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria) March 27, 2017
Turkish-led and @Coalition-supported operations have also cleared more than 2,000 square kilometers of territory. #Syria #DefeatingISIS pic.twitter.com/ipS9h8pgIk
— U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria) March 24, 2017
Suicide car bomb ripped through military checkpoint in Syria's Homs, killing a number of soldiers pic.twitter.com/iYP9ry3B1l
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 23, 2017
Russia, Turkey, Iran agree to strengthen tripartite mechanism for monitoring ceasefire violations in Syria https://t.co/VGq4JUnRWB pic.twitter.com/MVrO4G5Tah
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 15, 2017
Russian warplanes launched 452 strikes against IS terrorists in #Syria in the past week, the Russian military said Fri. @KremlinRussia_E pic.twitter.com/dCqow5NM9j
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) March 10, 2017