Syria

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attend a working lunch in Istanbul, Turkey, January 8, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERSMOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan had agreed in a phone call to intensify…

(ANKARA, Turkey) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey’s Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. The deaths brought to 15 the number of Turkish soldiers killed in clashes this month amid a…

Am 19.02.2020 veröffentlichtThe conflict in Syria is on the verge of a dangerous escalation, according to a senior United Nations official. The comments come as Turkey threatened to launch a new military offensive. Talks between Turkey and Russia, which backs the Syrian government, failed to reach agreement on how to…

Media captionSyria War: Why is Idlib back in the news? Turkey's president has warned the Syrian government that it will "pay a very, very heavy price" for attacks on Turkish soldiers in north-west Syria. Five troops were killed in opposition-held Idlib prov…

VideoThe BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville follows the spread of Islamic State group, from Syria to the Philippines.

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Beirut - Egypt Today Lebanon’s once soaring property market is on the brink of collapse amid plunging prices and a construction standstill. A boom that began in 2008 fueled by sales to Gulf state citizens and Lebanese expatriates was halted by war in Syria in 2011 and the oil-price slump…

Damascus - Egypt Today Syrian state media said Sunday that air defenses had opened fire near Damascus airport, before withdrawing the report after what appeared to be a false alarm. “Our air defenses engaged hostile aerial targets in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport,” the official SANA news agency said,…