Syria

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) wearing protective masks walk towards the departure entrance of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City, Feb. 18, 2020. Eloisa Lopez, Reuters CAIRO (UPDATE) - Qatar has temporarily barred travelers from 14 countries from March 9 as a precaution against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, the…

Sankore mosque, which was built in the 15th-16th century - Jordi Cami Armed groups operating across Africa’s Sahel region are looting hundreds of cultural and archaeological sites in the same way as Isil did in Syria, experts have warned. Over the last few years, government forces have retreated from vast areas…

KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) - Teargas and smoke bombs clouded a border crossing between Greece and Turkey on Saturday as tensions persisted over thousands of migrants massed at the frontier trying to force their way into the European Union. A Reuters reporter near the crossing at Kastanies said the projectiles were…

DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) - A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was "martyred" in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, withot giving details of how he died.The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a "defender of Sayida Zainab shrine," the holy…

Russia and Turkey announced a ceasefire agreement for Syria on Thursday afternoon that directly rebukes U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s demands earlier in the day—dashing U.S. hopes that Turkey could help roll back Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s control of the country.Pompeo told reporters on Thursday morning that it was…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he hoped decisions made at his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday would ease the situation in northwest Syria’s Idlib region, where conflict has escalated in recent weeks. Speaking in front of cameras at the start of their meeting,…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia agreed a ceasefire deal on Thursday in Syria’s Idlib region, their two leaders said after talks in Moscow to contain a conflict which has displaced nearly a million people in three months. Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing next to his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan,…

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after a migration summit at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told fellow conservative lawmakers that she is in favor of setting up safety zones in northern Syria where…

(Bloomberg) -- Angela Merkel may meet as soon as Friday with the leaders of France, Russia and Turkey amid growing tensions surrounding the conflict in Syria.A meeting with Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be on Syria and the refugee crisis, Michael Grosse-Broemer, the caucus whip from…

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, listens to a question during a joint news conference with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,(unseen) in Kabul, Afghanistan February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad IsmailWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it is considering helping to increase humanitarian…