Syria

Turkish air strikes on Syria border posts run by regime forces killed 17 fighters on Aug 16 2022. — AFP/FileBEIRUT: Turkish air strikes hit several towns across northern Syria, including the city of Kobane, late Saturday, said Kurdish-led forces there and a Britain-based monitoring group. The Turkish raids killed at…

Updated November 20, 2022 at 9:01 PM Published November 20, 2022 at 1:38 PM ISTANBUL - Turkey announced early on Sunday it had carried out air strikes against Kurdish militant bases across northern Syria and Iraq which it said were being used to launch “terrorist” attacks on Turkey. The Turkish…

Israeli airstrikes hit central and coastal regions of Syria early Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding one, the Syrian military said. State media quoted an unidentified Syrian military official as saying that Israeli warplanes flying over the Mediterranean fired missiles toward military positions in coastal and central Syria. The Syrian…

Two Syrian refugee boys ride a bike down the main street in Zaatari refugee camp. Photo: Stef Kight/Axios ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN — A whole generation of Syrian refugees are living out their lives — working, getting married, having children — in a camp that was supposed to be a…

OTTAWA — The mother of a Canadian man being held in northeastern Syria accuses the federal government of doing "precisely nothing" to secure his release.  Sally Lane urged the Liberal government Tuesday to send a delegate overseas to help free her son Jack Letts and other Canadians detained in atrocious…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed to planting a bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul, killing six people and wounding several dozen others. Kurdish militants strongly denied any links…

ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities have detained 46 suspects in connection with a deadly bomb attack on one of Istanbul’s busiest shopping streets, including a woman they said had planted the explosives, police said Monday. The explosion, which occurred Sunday afternoon on Istiklal Avenue as it was teeming with shoppers, killed…

Syrian woman suspected to have planted bomb that killed six people in central Istanbul. — Twitter/TRT WorldISTANBUL: Turkey on Monday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack. Two girls, aged nine…

Residents came to lay red carnations at the site of the explosion - Copyright AFP/File STR Remi BANET and Fulya OZERKAN Turkey on Monday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack.…

Interior minister says the attack was perpetrated by members of the PKK who crossed into Turkey from SyriaBy Jared Malsin and Elvan Kivilcim Updated Nov. 14, 2022 2:35 pm ET ISTANBUL—The lethal bombing in the heart of Istanbul over the weekend injected new tension into Turkey’s relationship with the U.S.…