Tag: Syria
Syrian rebels withdraw from enclave northeast of Damascus
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian rebels began withdrawing from an enclave northeast of Damascus on Saturday and will go to northern Syria, state TV and a rebel...
Iraq launches airstrikes on IS positions inside Syria
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Air Force on Thursday carried out airstrikes on the positions of Islamic State (IS) militants inside Syria near the border, the Iraqi...
Syria UN envoy says UN security team visited Douma on Tuesday
UNITED NATIONS: Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said a United Nations security team traveled to the Syrian town of Douma on Tuesday ahead of...
EU threatens new Syrian sanctions but no clear Russian target
LUXEMBOURG: European Union foreign ministers threatened on Monday new sanctions on Syria over what the West says were chemical attacks on its own people,...
Macron clarifies Syria comments, says US and France united
PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron sought to clarify his comments on French and US military operations in Syria on Monday, saying both countries were committed...
Russia says Syria chemical attack ‘staged’ with help of foreign secret...
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said Moscow had “irrefutable” evidence that an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged with...
Macron says to strike Syria “in due course”
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he would decide whether to hit Syrian regime chemical arms capabilities when he judged it "the most useful"...
Trump says Syria attack could be ‘soon or not so soon’
President Donald Trump was evasive Thursday over when the United States might fire missiles at Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack,...
UN warns against letting Syria crisis ‘spiral’ out of control
The United Nations warned world powers against letting the crisis over an alleged chemical attack against civilians in Syria from "spiraling out of control"...
MCIS 2018: Pakistan urges world to play role for Kashmir, Palestine
Dastgir offers to share Pakistan’s extensive counterterrorism experience with partners
MOSCOW: Minister for Defence Khurram Dastgir has said that the international community should play its...
Syrian state media: last rebel group starts leaving Ghouta
BEIRUT: The last Syrian rebel group in eastern Ghouta near Damascus began withdrawing on Monday under an agreement with the government, state media said,...
Israel accepts it conducted airstrikes on suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in...
JERUSALEM: Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed...
COMSATS students raise voice in solidarity with distressed Syrians
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) took the lead to arrange a first-ever peaceful protest walk to express solidarity with Syrian children being brutally...
PPP, PML-N should bring joint candidate for Senate chairman: Fazal
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chairman Maulana Fazalur Rehman on Friday said that attempts were being made to bring closer the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and...
White House accuses Russia of killing civilians in Syria
WASHINGTON: The United States on Sunday made its strongest accusation to date of Moscow’s complicity in civilian deaths in Syria, saying Russian aircraft flew...
Pakistan should play role in ending bloodshed in Syria: Siraj
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer (leader) Senator Siraj-ul-Haq on Friday called upon the government to seek the cooperation of Saudi Arabia and Turkey for ending...
Civilians stay put despite ‘pause’ in Syria Ghouta bloodshed
Civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta shunned Russia’s offer to quit the besieged enclave for a second day Thursday, as rebels and Moscow blamed each...
