for questions about claims based in Syria, or limited in Syria.
Questions tagged [syria]
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Did Obama give $195 million to Syria for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Ftr?
I saw this article floating around Facebook today. It claims:
It’s the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. President Obama has decided to give $195M of taxpayer money to the Islamic nation of Syria to mark the…
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Has Syria received proportionally more refugees than other countries in recent history?
This comment by Sonia Bous Aidi on a recent Humans of New York post about the European migrant crisis is powerful if true:
Syria became home to the Circassian refugees in 1860
Syria became home to the Armenian refugees in 1914
Syria became home to…
Anko - inactive in protest
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Were some Russians killed in a fight with American forces in Syria in February 2018?
I just read a question on history stack exchange that linked to this Feb 2018 National Review article:
On the night of February 7, “pro-regime” Syrian forces reportedly launched an assault on a “known” American base. American forces defended…
totalMongot
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Did the Syrian government use Sarin (or other chemical weapons) in the 2017 Khan Shaykhun attack?
On the 4 April 2017, there was an airstrike attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun in Syria, with over 70 civilians killed and many hundreds injured.
Responsibility is attributed to the Syrian government, although that is disputed by them.
There is…
Ivaylo Strandjev
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Did NATO Air Forces start shooting down Russian fighter jets?
In the beginning of October, several news appeared claiming that Russian fighter jets intruded the air space of Turkey. They have been intercepted and escorted away from Turkish air space, but no fire was open.
On October, 10, British news agency…
Be Brave Be Like Ukraine
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Did Turkey neutralize thousands of Syrian Army soldiers?
Operation Spring Shield was a Turkish military operation between from February 27 to March 3rd.
A Turkish news source article, Turkey neutralizes 3,000+ regime elements in Idlib, Syria reported on March 4th:
Turkish forces neutralized 3,136 regime…
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Did the US (ab)use the "deconfliction channel" with Russia to shoot the Syrian Su-22 plane?
I just read this piece of news:
... the American plane took off from a carrier (George HW Bush), flew over all of Russia's radar and missile sites in western Syria, shot down the Syrian Su-22 in Raqqa, and then flew right back over all the Russian…
user541686
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Did Muhammed al-Arifi issue a fatwa permitting rape of Syrian women?
Taslima Nasrin claimed in her blog that Saudi cleric Mohammed al-Arifi issued "a fatawa to rape!". She quoted the following excerpt from this liveleak post as evidence.
A Wahhabi religious cleric in Saudi Arabia, Muhammed al-Arifi, who is
very…
Sakib Arifin
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Did Yasir al-Ajlawni declare that it is lawful to rape any "non-Sunni Syrian woman"?
This report claims:
Fides sources point out that, through social networks, the fatwa was
widespread in Syria produced by Yasir al-Ajlawni—A Salafi sheikh of
Jordanian origin, resident in Damascus—who declared lawful, for
opponents of the…
Sakib Arifin
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Did the Free Syrian Army take a (pictured) toddler hostage?
On Al-hadath News is this picture posted:
Warning: Disturbing image
and claims that the Free Syrian Army posted this picture claiming it is "[their] youngest hostage."
Is it true that the baby was taken hostage and photographed with a gun…
user20862
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Were 14 US-Led Coalition Military Advisors captured by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo?
It caught my eye on Wikipedia's current events portal that US-led coalition military advisors had been captured in a bunker in Aleppo. This story has since disappeared off of Wikipedia, but several (off-beat and minor) news sites are reporting it.…
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Did Assad use chemical weapons in Syria?
Related to Were chemical weapons being used in the civil war in Syria before 2014?.
While the consensus at the time seemed to be that the government was using chemical weapons (this in particular was the position of the US government), and that…
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Were there 2.48 million Syrians living in Saudi Arabia in 2018?
GMI claims
As per the data from 2017-2018, more than 30% of the Saudi population are expats. The total number of non-Saudis in the country is estimated to be 10,736,293. Nearly a quarter of this are Syrians fleeing the war in their country. Almost…
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Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre inspected by OPCW in Nov 2017?
Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre the same as the " Barzah facility" in this 23 March 2018 OPCW report stating (section 11):
the second round
of inspections at the Barzah and Jamrayah facilities of the SSRC was concluded on
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun?
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, a rebel commander and a weapons expert all said…
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