Tag: War in Syria
Civilians flee final phases of intense Syria battles
Rebel group rejects Russia's surrender demands
BEIRUT: Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves at opposite ends of Syria on Friday as two...
Russian airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta kill at least 31: monitor
DOUMA: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday the death toll from Russian air strikes on the village of Kafr Batna in...
Syria’s Afrin town surrounded by Turkish forces
ANKARA: Turkey’s military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial...
US ‘may act’ if onslaught against Ghouta continues, Russian military threatens...
NEW YORK: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned on Monday that Washington “remains prepared to act if we must,” if the...
Syrian jets hit south in first attacks since truce, rebels say
AMMAN: Syrian jets struck rebel-held towns in the country’s south on Monday, the first aerial attacks on the area since the United States and...
Turkish forces reach outskirts of Afrin town: monitor
BEIRUT: Turkish forces have reached the outskirts of the town of Afrin after a weeks-long campaign against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, the...
US-backed Syria force to redeploy 1,700 from IS fight to Afrin
SYRIA: A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced on Tuesday it would redeploy around 1,700 members from front lines against the Islamic State group...
Strikes hit Syria’s battered Ghouta as death toll hits 800
DOUMA, EASTERN GHOUTA: Heavy air strikes and clashes shook the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta ahead of an urgent UN Security Council meeting...
Helped evacuate 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta, says Russia
MOSCOW: The Russian military has announced that it has aided in the evacuation of 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday. The civilians were...
Turkey, Russia and Iran to hold summit on Syria in April
ANKARA: Turkey, Russia and Iran will hold a summit in April to discuss Syria and potential steps in the region, the spokesman for the...
Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta
MOSCOW: The Russian military has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta, setting out a proposal to let the opposition surrender its...
Pause in some operations against ISIS due to Turkish offensive, admits...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon acknowledged on Monday that a Turkish offensive against a US-backed militia in Syria had affected the fight against Islamic State and...
Will devote efforts to trade, China and Syria war, says Germany’s...
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would work with France to tackle pressing issues such as trade policy, the war in Syria...
Aid reaches Ghouta but retreats after shelling; Syria presses assault
BEIRUT: Aid trucks reached Syria’s eastern Ghouta region on Monday for the first time since the start of one of the war’s deadliest assaults,...
Turkish bombardment kills 13 in Syria’s Afrin: YPG, monitor
BEIRUT: Turkish shelling and air strikes killed 13 people in the town of Jandiris in Syria’s Afrin region on Monday, Kurdish militia said, while...
French President Macron reaches out to resolve Ghouta crisis
PARIS: The French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to discuss the conflict in Syria at large and the Ghouta region in...
Syrian govt removes medical equipment from Ghouta aid convoy: WHO
GENEVA: Syrian government officials removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from trucks that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian...
