Tag: War in Syria
Turkey started preparations for further operations in northern Syria: Erdogan
ANKARA: Turkey has started preparations to clear northern Syria’s Ayn al-Arab, Ras al-Ain and Tel Abyad regions from militants up to the Iraqi border,...
Turkey says France could become ‘target’ for backing Syria Kurds
ANKARA: Turkey said on Friday that a French pledge to help stabilise a region of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces amounted to support...
US, British service members killed by improvised bomb in Syria
WASHINGTON: A US and a British service member in the US-led coalition battling Islamic State were killed by an improvised explosive device in Syria,...
Syrian SDF says not informed of any US withdrawal plan
BEIRUT: The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday it had not been informed of any plan to withdraw U.S. forces operating in...
Trump tells advisers he wants US out of Syria: senior officials
FLORIDA: President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants an early exit of US troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday,...
Syrian rebels deny deal with Russia to leave Douma town
MOSCOW: The last Syrian rebel group in the eastern Ghouta near Damascus denied reports it had agreed with Russia to leave the town of...
France ‘completely wrong’ on Syria, says Turkey’s Erdogan
ANKARA: A senior Turkish official said on Friday that a French pledge to help stabilize a region of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces...
Eastern Ghouta operation ‘nearly over’, says Russia
BEIRUT: The massive Russian-backed Syrian military offensive in suburbs east of Damascus is almost over, with rebels holed up in just a single town...
Largest convoy of rebel fighters leaves Eastern Ghouta
DAMASCUS: The largest convoy yet of armed fighters and civilians left a devastated pocket of Eastern Ghouta early on Tuesday, further emptying the onetime...
‘Will not leave’ Ghouta, says Jaish al-Islam’s spokesperson
BEIRUT: Jaish al-Islam, the last rebel faction in control of territory in eastern Ghouta, said on Sunday it would not withdraw to other opposition-held parts...
Syrian army celebrates with eastern ghouta victory in sight as rebels...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels left one besieged enclave on Friday and agreed to abandon another, leaving only the city of Douma still in insurgent hands...
Syrian rebels, Russians to negotiate end to Ghouta suffering-rebel group
BEIRUT: Syrian rebel group in one besieged eastern Ghouta pocket said on Friday it would try to negotiate an end to an army assault...
Syria rebels depart eastern Ghouta town on government buses in first...
DAMASCUS: Syrian rebels withdrew in busloads from a town in eastern Ghouta on Thursday and handed it over to the army, the first such...
Japanese court throws out Syrians’ bid to overturn refugee ruling
TOKYO: Two Syrian asylum seekers on Tuesday lost a bid to overturn a government decision to deny them refugee status, in the first such...
Assad visits frontline troops in eastern Ghouta as rebels initiate talks
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday visited Syrian soldiers who appear close to defeating the last major opposition foothold near Damascus and met...
Turkish military denies it hit Syrian hospital
ISTANBUL: The Turkish military denied on Saturday that it had struck a hospital in Syria’s Afrin region, where it is waging a nearly two-month-old...
Fresh airstrikes kill 30 civilians in Eastern Ghouta: monitor
DOUMA: Air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a blistering Russia-backed regime...
