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Smoke billows following a reported car bomb explosion at a Syrian pro-government position during clashes between rebel fighters and regime forces to take control of an area in the southern city of Daraa on February 20. — AFP

Years of failed efforts to end Syrian conflict

HMAS Darwin seized more than 2,000 weapons, including AK-type assault rifles and 100 Iranian-manufactured rocket launchers, from the dhow bound for Somalia, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said. The seizure by FS Provence included 2,000 assault rifles “characteristic of Iranian manufacture” and 64 Hoshdar-M Iranian-made sniper rifles, all of which were in new condition, CAR said.

Report points to Iran arms ‘pipeline’ to Yemen

Gavriel Friedson (right) and Daniel Shore, volunteers of “United Hatzalah”, a network of volunteer medics across Israel, pose next to their rescue medical motorcycles in occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli medical service Magen David Adom (MDA) says it will only enter parts of east Jerusalem with a police escort for security reasons — a decision that can lead to delays in people receiving vital medical treatment. In their absence, first responders living in east Jerusalem from MDA and other groups such as United Hatzalah rush to the scene, often on motorbikes, and provide medical care until the ambulance arrives, while the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) also responds in many cases. — AFP photos

Medicos caught in the M-E turmoil of conflict

Women walk on rubble in Al-Shadadi town, in Hasaka province, Syria. — Reuters

A look at the cost of 5 years of conflict in Syria

Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, center, and Uruguay's Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa, left, speak to reporters outside the United Nations Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday. — Reuters

UN to monitor end of Colombia-FARC conflict

A file picture taken June 25, 2014 shows Zahran Alloush, the leader of Jaysh al-Islam (Islam Army), speaking during a press conference in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital Damascus. — AFP

Syria rebel chief Zahran Alloush killed near capital: monitor, opposition

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Bombardment of rebel bastion near Syria capital kills 28: monitor

World’s inaction on Syria conflict DEPLORABLE

World’s inaction on Syria conflict DEPLORABLE