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State news agency reports ‘explosions in Damacus’; war monitor says at least eight pro-government fighters killed. Israeli air attacks struck central Syria late on Tuesday, with state news agency SANA reporting “explosions in Damascus” before adding that its air defences had been activated against the “Israeli aggression”. Israeli planes arrived…

Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 12 Apr 2021 9:40PM · Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says its investigation ‘concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib on February 4, 2018". – EPA pic, April 12, 2021. THE Syrian regime’s air…

MISSOURI, USA/ BEIRUT: Syria has signed a four-year oil and gas exploration deal with a Russian company in Mediterranean waters that Lebanon claims as its own. The two blocks to be explored under the new contract overlap with Lebanese maritime areas for energy exploration along the country’s northern border. Yet…

Al-Monitor, Al-Monitor April 10, 2021 A US-Russia showdown over humanitarian border crossings stymies the UN peace process after 10 years of misery. Read Full Article » Related Topics: Syria Comment Show comments Hide Comments Read More

In March, General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., an Alabama-born marine who commands U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, took a whirlwind tour of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Lebanon—America’s most volatile theatre of operations. Some legs of the trip were made on a C-17, a cavernous aircraft that…

CAIRO: Egypt and Jordan have called for renewed international efforts to break the deadlock in peace efforts between Palestine and Israel. The demands came as a result of a phone meeting on developments in Jerusalem between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs…

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The United Nations says conflicts have forced a record 60 million people around the world from their homes, with Syria being the largest source of refugees. Hundreds of Syrians in Turkey are surging back across the border. Kurdish forces backed by U.S. airstrikes drove ISIS fighters from their home town…

Special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces keep watch on 30 March 2021 in the vicinity of al-Hol camp, the larger of two Kurdish-run displacement camps for relatives of Islamic State jihadists in Syrias northeast. Syria's Kurdish forces have announced that 125 IS jihadists have been captured after announcing the…

First-term Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) said in a recent interview, without offering evidence, that he believes the man alleged to have carried out a mass shooting in a Colorado supermarket last week was inspired to violence following U.S. airstrikes in Syria, which he called a “failed policy” of the Biden administration.…