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Turkey's military hit targets in the northern Syrian town of Tel Rifat in response to artillery attacks that killed 14 people and wounded several others in nearby Afrin, state-run Anadolu agency said on Sunday. Ankara blamed Saturday's attacks, including on a hospital, on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. The Syrian…

There have been two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin. At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources said. The first attack struck a residential area, while the…

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Some eight Syrian soldiers were killed and a number of others were injured in the strikes, according to opposition-affiliated reports. Syrian air defence batteries responding to what the Syrian state media said were Israeli missiles targeting Damascus, in a picture taken early on January 21st, 2019 (photo credit: STR /…

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…