Tag: Syria
SDF accuses Turkey of backing ‘IS’ with Syria assault
BERLIN: Turkey is determined to push on with its massive offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, as...
Turkish forces push into Syria, Kurdish militia repulsed attacks
AZAZ: Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, the army said, after Turkey launched artillery and air strikes on a...
Rockets from Syria hit Turkish border
ISTANBUL: Four rockets fired from Syria hit the Turkish southern border town of Kilis early on Sunday damaging houses, state-run Anadolu Agency said.
Three of...
Russian forces evacuate Syria civilians from Eastern Ghouta
DAMASCUS: Russian military of the Centre for a reconciliation of the warring parties in the Syrian Arab Republic continues a humanitarian evacuation from Eastern...
UN secretary-general discuss Syria, North Korea, says Russian foreign minister
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have noted the lack of alternatives in the peaceful settlement of crises in...
USA has no intention of building Syria-Turkey border force: Tillerson
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday denied that the United States had any intention to build a Syria-Turkey border force, saying...
Cavusoglu says Turkey’s Syria operation cannot be limited to Afrin
WASHINGTON: Turkey may expand its operations in northern Syria to Manbij city and east of the Euphrates River after Afrin has been cleared, Turkey’s foreign...
30 children killed in Syria’s E Ghouta this year says UNICEF
EAST GHOUTA: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than 30 children were killed in the first two weeks of 2018 in besieged...
Turkey summons Iranian, Russian envoys over Syrian regime’s Idlib ceasefire violations
ANKARA: Turkey has summoned the ambassadors of Russia and Iran to protest the Assad regime's violations of de-escalation zone borders in Syria's Idlib in...
Syria: 42 media activists killed and 47 injured in 2017
LONDON: Forty-two media activists were killed and 47 others injured mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria in 2017, according to a recently...
Russia denies report that 7 planes destroyed in Syria attack
MOSCOW: Russia denied a report in daily newspaper Kommersant that seven Russian planes had been destroyed by rebel shelling at Syria’s Hmeymim air base...
28 civilians killed in Syria, most in Russian air strikes: monitor
DAMASCUS: At least 28 civilians have been killed by bombardment in the besieged Syrian opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, most of them...
Russian military helicopter crashes in Syria, 2 pilots die
MOSCOW: Russia's Defense Ministry says that a Russian military helicopter has crashed in Syria, killing both pilots aboard.
In a statement on January 3, the...
Two shells from Syria hit southeastern Turkey: Anadolu
ISTANBUL: Two artillery shells from Syria hit Turkey’s southeastern province of Hatay on Tuesday and Turkish border troops fired back, the state-run Anadolu agency...
Two mass graves found in Syria
RAQQA: Two mass graves containing dozens of bodies of civilians and Syrian troops killed by Islamic State jihadists have been found in the west...
‘Terrorist’ Assad cannot be part of Syria solution, warns Erdogan
TUNIS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday a political solution to the Syrian conflict was impossible without the departure of Syrian President Bashar...
Syrian, Iranian backed forces advance in border area near Israel
AMMAN: Syrian army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon...
