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- Islamic State forces were officially cut off from their main supply routesa  from al-Bab within Aleppo province to Iraq.
- Turkish forces concluded Operation Euphrates Shield, which was intended to secure territory from the Islamic State and reject advances by Kurdish forces. Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.

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- The Syrian government carried out a chemical attack on citizens in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the rebel-held province of Idlib, killing eighty people, among them many children.
- United States launches fifty nine tomahawk missiles  at the Syrian airbase from which the chemical weapons came from U.S.
- The air strike destroyed roughly 20% of Syria's air force.

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Meanwhile, external military intervention—including the provision of arms and military equipment, training, air strikes, and even troops—in support of proxies in Syria. The role of outside actors—namely Russia, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the U.S.-led coalition—complicates the civil war. Ongoing violence could allow terrorist groups already active in Syria to launch attacks against U.S. personnel in the country.

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- More than 470,000 people have been killed, 4.8 million have fled the country, and 6.1 million have been internally displaced. Many refugees have fled to Jordan and Lebanon, straining already weak infrastructure and limited resources.
- More than 2.9 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, and many have attempted to seek refuge in Europe.

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- Geneva peace talks on Syria—a UN-backed conference for facilitating a political transition led by UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura.
- Syrian regime officials struggle to find mutually acceptable terms for resolving the conflict.
- A new round of peace talks began in Geneva in May 2017 with an eighteen-person delegation from Syria.
Syrian peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, with Russia, Turkey, Iran.

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- Russia began launching air strikes against what it claimed were Islamic State targets.
- It also targeted other groups opposed to Assad, including rebel groups deemed moderate.
- The majority of Russian strikes have targeted the Islamic State.

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The United States, the United Kingdom, and France—with the support of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab partners—have conducted over nine thousand air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.

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France expanded its air strikes in Syria and the United Kingdom launched air strikes to target the Islamic State.

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The Islamic State has recruited as many as thirty thousand foreign fighters to join the battle in Syria.

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- Syrian Arab Republic
- Syrian opposition
- Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
- Tahrir al-Sham

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- In preparing for the eventual battle to take Raqqa—the self-declared Islamic State’s de facto capital—the United States is working alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to assist local militias in fighting the Islamic State.
- Civilian casualties have increased result of unintended consequences from air strikes or by acts of terrorism.
- To evacuate civilians from four besieged towns.
- A suicide bombing on a bus convoy headed toward government territory killed at least 126 people.

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The ongoing violence against civilians has been condemned by the

Arab League , the European Union , the United States and other countries.

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- Since the Syrian civil war began over six years ago, foreign actors have played an increasingly important role in the conflict.
- In May 2017, the United States significantly escalated its actions in Syria after nearly three years of air strikes by intentionally hitting  Syrian regime–backed forces near the town of al-Tanf, on the border with Jordan.
- In June, the United States downed a Syrian regime aircraft that was dropping bombs near U.S.-backed fighters.