Tag: syria

Push for safe zone for Syrian refugees near Israel frontier

JERUSALEM, Israel (Reuters) — A safe zone should be set up for displaced Syrians camping on the Syrian border with the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, the leader of a Syrian-focussed charity and a leading Syrian opposition figure said on Thursday (February 18). There is a growing encampment in the area where civilians fleeing the five-year Syrian conflict have been gathering. American-Israeli businessman and founder of the Amaliah charity, Moti Kahana, and Syrian politician, Kamal al-Labwani, told […]

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Humanitarian aid enters 5 besieged areas in Syria

AL-MOADDAMYEH, Syria (CCTV/Reuters) — Around 100 trucks with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Wednesday entered five besieged areas in Syria to deliver much-needed food and medicine to civilians. The areas receiving the relief aid are the Damascus suburb of al-Moaddamyeh, as well as al Fouaa, Kafraya, al-Zabadani and Madaya. It is the first time that the Arab Red Crescent has delivered large amounts of relief supplies to the five besieged areas in one day. Thirty-five […]

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500 rebels cross Turkish border towards Syrian town of Azaz: Observatory

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 500 rebels on Wednesday crossed the Turkish border heading for the Syrian town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, a monitor said, where opposition forces have suffered setbacks at the hands of Kurdish forces. “At least 500 rebels have crossed the Bab al-Salam border crossing on their way to the town of Azaz, from which they want to help the insurgents in the face of gains made by Kurdish […]

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Car bomb kills at least 28 in Ankara

ANKARA, Turkey (CCTV/Reuters) — A car bomb attack killed at least 28 people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday night. The explosion, which targeted an army convoy, also injured at least 61 people, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said at a press conference after the attack. A local resident named Noury was only 300 meters away from the explosion site when the bomb went off, having driven past just 20 seconds earlier. […]

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UN sends aid to Syria as Turkey calls for ground operation

by Stuart Williams DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — UN convoys delivering aid to thousands of besieged Syrians were due to set out on Wednesday, but hopes for lasting peace dimmed the day after Turkey called for a ground operation in its war-torn neighbor. Syria’s government has approved access to seven besieged areas, including the city of Madaya where dozens of people are thought to have died from starvation, a spokeswoman for the UN’s humanitarian affairs office […]

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Russian air strikes in Syria ‘directly enabling’ IS: US

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Russian air strikes in and around the city of Aleppo against opponents of the Syrian regime are benefitting the Islamic State group, a senior US official charged Wednesday. “What Russia’s doing is directly enabling ISIL,” Brett McGurk, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the group in Syria and Iraq, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. US Secretary of State John Kerry has taken the lead over the past […]

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Kurds, allies seize key air base in north Syria: monitor

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Kurdish forces backed by Arab rebel groups captured a strategic air base and the adjacent town in northern Syria from rival anti-government factions overnight, a monitoring group said early Thursday. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its Arab allies expelled Islamist and other rebel fighters from the Minnigh air base and adjacent town, north of Syria’s second city Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. The advance comes […]

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Syrian refugees welcome Syria donors conference in London

Syrian refugees welcome the Syria donors conference which was held in London on Thursday, in the hope of being lifted out of dilemma by funds raised in the conference . The donors conference – Supporting Syria & the Region – in London where representatives of 70 nations met has managed to pledge over ten billion U.S. dollars that will get urgent medical care, nutrition needs and job creation for refugees affected by the ongoing crisis […]

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Putin is fanning Syrian civil war, Britain’s Hammond says

Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday (February 1) during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, about 10 km (six miles) south of the border with Syria. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond scolded Putin for paying lip service to […]

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UN Syria envoy pleas for peace ahead of Geneva talks

On the eve of the first Syrian peace talks in two years, the UN Syria envoy made an emotional plea on Thursday (January 28) for a peaceful resolution to the bloody and bitter five-year-long war. However, earlier on Thursday the Syrian opposition said it will not attend peace talks due to begin in Geneva on Friday (January 29), derailing the first attempt in two years to hold negotiations aimed at ending the conflict. An opposition […]

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Addressing terrorism top priority for Syrian peace talks delegation: analysts

With a new round of Syrian peace talks scheduled to begin on Friday in Geneva, analysts offered opinions on what the Syrian government and the opposition seek to achieve. The chief goal of the delegation of the current Syrian government led by Bashar Ja’afari, permanent representative of Syria to the UN, is to address terrorism, according to some analysts. “I think what the Syrian government prioritizes is to combat all kinds of terrorist groups, those […]

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Iran’s Rouhani says “terrorism” main problem in Syria

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday (January 28) that defeating “terrorism” had to be Syria’s main priority problem, not who is leading the war-ravaged country. Rouhani said that the main issue in the devastating five-year war in Syria was the threat from the Sunni militant group Islamic State and their supporters, and not Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “The problem today in Syria and the region is not a question of ‘this person’ or ‘that […]

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