A safe zone to be set up in northeastern Syria jointly between Turkey and the U.S. can host two to three million Syrians, Turkish President has said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that Turkey [ More … ]
Flights are part of first phase implementations of safe zone in eastern Euphrates, says Turkish National Defense Ministry Turkish National Defense Ministry on Thursday announced that two Turkish and two U.S. helicopters conducted a joint [ More … ]
Moscow says the US targeted the region ‘without advance notice’ to Russia or Turkey, says it ‘compromised’ ceasefire. Russia, a major backer of Syria’s government, has accused the United States of having “compromised” a fragile ceasefire in Syria’s [ More … ]
Many Egyptians believe their government and its supporters are behind the latest xenophobic campaign targeting Syrian refugees in the country, including attacks on their businesses. The closure of a popular Syrian-owned restaurant in the east [ More … ]
Air raids on Syria’s Idlib kill a family of seven, say activists Mother and six children reported killed in Deir al-Sharqi as Syria and Russia intensify air raids on the rebel stronghold. Seven members of [ More … ]
The struggles of civilians in northwestern Syria’s Idlib continue. Many have gone underground from fear of the heavy airstrikes by the Bashar Assad regime and Russia that recently devastated basic services and daily life in [ More … ]
French UN ambassador raises risk of humanitarian catastrophe if government launches assault on rebel-held stronghold France has warned that escalating violence in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province will lead to a new humanitarian catastrophe as thousands [ More … ]
What do Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed say about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Golan belongs to Israel” outburst? Are they going to [ More … ]
International donors at a Belgian conference pledged $7bn to help Syrian refugees, falling short of what the UN said it needed on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the country’s uprising. More than 370,000 [ More … ]
Lar month, on January 31, the Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev paid a visit to Abu Dhabi to meet with the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two exchanged views on [ More … ]
Eight children have died in Rukban camp this month, as families blame terrible living conditions and lack of humanitarian aid for their deaths Clutching her young baby to her chest to warm her up during [ More … ]
US National Security Adviser John Bolton has arrived in Turkey to try to hammer out a deal for Kurdish fighters in Syria, as the United States prepares a military withdrawal from the country. Bolton touched down in [ More … ]
Donald Trump has been defending his decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria, and end an air campaign against ISIS. After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home! pic.twitter.com/xoNjFzQFTp [ More … ]
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura set to review joint proposal with foreign ministers in Geneva. The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura is set to hold talks with foreign ministers from Iran, Russia [ More … ]
Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
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