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The regime and Russia have overlapping and differing goals in their quest to re-conquer southern Syria. Russia wants to cement its role as a regional mediator, while the regime wants to quash any obstacles to ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fatima Alzahra Shon thinks neighbors attacked her and her son in their Istanbul apartment building because she is Syrian. The 32-year-old refugee from Aleppo was confronted on Sept. 1 by a ...
SYRIAN communists joined protests against hikes in fuel and bread prices in the country’s Kurdish-led north-east on Friday as they called for an end to US occupation. Crowds gathered in front of the United Nations building ...
Syrian rebels have begun leaving the besieged district of Daraa al-Balad after a Russian-brokered truce halted fighting with Assad regime forces. Syrian rebels started leaving the southern province of Daraa on Tuesday as part of a ...
Daraa al-Balad has been besieged by the Assad regime for over three weeks in an attempt to force opposition fighters to surrender. Parents have reported that infant milk has ran out for babies at medical centers ...
The Syrian National Coalition opposition group has elected Salem al-Muslet, a tribal sheikh from northeastern Syria, as its new leader to succeed Nasr Hariri. Muslet, who is from Hasakah Province in northeastern Syria, is a ...
(AP) — Western nations headed to a likely Friday showdown with Russia over the delivery of humanitarian aid from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria, where the U.N. says 3.4 million people are in desperate need ...
Amnesty International has criticised Russia following a ‘compromise’ UN Security Council resolution on cross-border aid to Syria, saying Moscow was ‘playing political games with the lives and welfare of millions of people’. Aid groups repeatedly ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday called a proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq to Syria’s northeast for delivering humanitarian aid “a non-starter.” He also refused to say what will ...
FORMER Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas accused the Turkish state of forging key documents as he launched a searing attack on the government in an Ankara court room today. He accused President Recep Tayyip ...
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