Tag: Syria
Erdoğan, Putin discuss UN vote on Jerusalem, Syria crisis on phone
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday agreed in a telephonic conversation that Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to be...
Pakistani couple starving in Syria a stone’s throw away from embassy
Living in near desolation, Akram and his wife survive by raising livestock
'I have nothing to eat; I have no clean water to...
Syria’s Assad calls US-backed Kurdish fighters ‘traitors’
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called US-backed Kurdish fighters "traitors" Monday, ramping up the rhetoric against the forces controlling more than a quarter of...
Thousands of Russian private contractors fighting in Syria
Before he was killed by a sniper in Syria at age 23, Ivan Slyshkin wrote a poignant message on social media to his fiancee:...
Syria army intercepts Israel missiles near Damascus
DAMASCUS: Syrian air defences intercepted at least two Israeli missiles fired at a government “military position” in Damascus province early Saturday but the attack still...
Documents reveal how ISIL ran areas under its control in Iraq
Documents from ISIL-held areas in Iraq have shed light on the armed group's tough rules of internal governance and the fate awaiting fighters who...
A total of 26,000 US troops deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and...
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence (DOD) said in a new report that the US has almost 26,000 troops deployed in total in Afghanistan,...
Russian strikes kill 53 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor: monitor
BEIRUT: At least 53 civilians, including 21 children, perished early Sunday morning when Russian air strikes hit “residential buildings” in a village held by...
Pentagon likely to acknowledge 2,000 US troops in Syria
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is likely to announce in the coming days that there are about 2,000 US troops in Syria, two US officials said on...
Besieged Syrians eating trash, fainting from hunger: UN survey
GENEVA: Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing...
Bashar Assad appears to have survived, likely to hold onto power...
Syrian President Bashar Assad appears to have survived the war and is likely to hold onto power for the foreseeable future, despite being regarded...
Syria army, allies retake Albu Kamal from Islamic State
DEIR EZZOR: Syria’s army and loyalist militiamen Sunday ousted the Islamic State group from its last urban stronghold in the country as regime strikes claimed...
Russia, US headed for UN showdown over Syria gas attacks probe
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: Russia and the United States were on a collision course ahead of a UN Security Council vote on Thursday on the...
Multiple air strikes kill 43 in Aleppo
ATARIB: At least 43 civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded in three air strikes on a busy market in al-Atarib, a town...
Israel signals free hand in Syria as US, Russia expand truce
JERUSALEM: Israel signalled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces,...
Putin, Trump ‘agree to defeat IS in Syria’
US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to defeat so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the Kremlin said.
It said a...
Syria army announces full recapture of last Daesh-held town
DAMASCUS: Syrian troops and allied forces on Thursday took the town Albu Kamal, which was the last urban hub still controlled by the Islamic...
