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DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria (AFP) — The Russian defense ministry released on Thursday (November 23) a video footage of military jets, dropping bombs over militant targets in Syria. A written statement which accompanied the video said Russian jets which carried out air strikes on the Islamic State positions in Deir Al-Zor province took off both from Hmeimim air base and from an air base on the Russian territory. The size of Russia’s military force in Syria […]
by Maria Panina Agence France-Presse SOCHI, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that efforts to end Syria’s six-year war were entering “a new stage” ahead of a planned meeting of Syrian government officials and opposition leaders, warning both sides that compromise would be necessary. The new talks should happen soon, Putin said after a summit with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, insisting that they would reinvigorate a hobbled peace process. […]
by Maria Panina Agence France Presse SOCHI, Russia (AFP) — President Vladimir Putin discussed Syria on Tuesday with his US counterpart Donald Trump, with both speaking of the need for progress toward a peace settlement following the Russian leader’s surprise summit with Bashar al-Assad. Putin’s talks with Assad were part of Moscow’s effort to reboot the Syrian peace process, after military successes on the ground. Putin’s flurry of diplomacy also included phone talks with Saudi […]
by Ali Choukeir and Sarah Benhaida Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Its “caliphate” has imploded, its de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria have fallen, and hundreds of its fighters have either surrendered or fled. The Islamic State jihadist group may not be dead yet but its dream of statehood has already been buried, analysts say. No one in IS “will now think of imposing ‘the territory of the caliphate’,” said Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi […]
by Francesco Fontemaggi/ and Dave Clark © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The latest US and Russian bid to find enough common ground on which to build some hope for Syria is in trouble, just days ahead of talks that could make or break the peace process. A United Nations mediator has called on Bashar al-Assad’s regime and a beleaguered opposition coalition to send envoys to Geneva on November 28 to resolve the seven-year-old civil […]
by Carole LANDRY Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – Russia on Friday cast a second veto in as many days at the UN Security Council to block the renewal of a UN-led investigation to identify the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A draft resolution put forward by Japan would have extended the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) for 30 days to allow time for negotiations on a wider compromise. But Russia used its veto […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French investigators searched the offices of French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge Tuesday, the company said, as part of an enquiry into financial links to jihadist groups in Syria, including Islamic State. “French investigators are in the process of investigating our offices,” a Lafarge spokeswoman told AFP, confirming a report to that effect by France Inter radio. “We are cooperating fully with investigators, but we cannot make any further comment on this ongoing inquiry,” she […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US-led coalition will forge ahead in its fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq until a UN peace process makes further headway, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday. “We’re not just going to walk away right now until the Geneva Process has traction,” he told reporters. “You need to do something about this mess now, not just fight the military part of it and then say […]
SOCHI, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Monday on the need to boost efforts to achieve a lasting political settlement in Syria. Despite being on opposing sides of the Syrian conflict, Russia and Turkey have been working together since a 2016 reconciliation deal ended a crisis caused by the shooting down of a Russian warplane. During four hours of talks at the Black Sea resort of […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – Some 400 civilians are in urgent need of medical evacuation from Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, including 29 who will die if they are not allowed to leave immediately, the United Nations warned Thursday. “Around 400 men, women, children… need to be evacuated now,” Jan Egeland, head of the UN’s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, told reporters in Geneva, adding that 29 of them, including 18 children “will die if they are not […]
by Hassan Mohammed Agence France-Presse KAFR BATNA, Syria (AFP) – Dozens of trucks carrying aid for 40,000 people on Monday entered the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, where residents and relief groups have warned a humanitarian crisis is escalating. Shocking AFP images from the region this month showed severely underweight children, and doctors reported two infants had died of malnutrition and related complications. The United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red […]
by Delphine Matthieussent Agence France-Presse MOUNT HERMON,Syria (AFP) – The wounded Syrians, carried on donkeys through the pitch-black night, could be seen in the beam of a searchlight held by their unlikely saviours — Israeli soldiers. They were high in the mountains, nearing the Israeli-occupied zone of the Golan Heights, where they were to receive medical treatment for their wounds even though Israel and Syria are officially at war. Casualties from Syria‘s six-year civil war are taken […]
