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RAQQA, Syria (CCTV) — The Syrian government has blamed the U.S.-led coalition for bringing down a Syrian Su-22 warplane from over the country’s northern city of Raqqa on Sunday. The pilot is reported as missing, according to the Syrian state news agency. The Syrian government forces have blamed the downing of its warplane as overt infringement upon the country’s sovereignty. The downed warplane was on a combat mission against the Islamic State (IS) group. The general […]
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and reaffirmed his support for last week’s United States air strike in the neighboring country. In comments at the start of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu did not specify whether those injured in last week’s suspected chemical attack in Syria would be among those treated in Israel. Israeli media reported that a proposal to do so had […]
(REUTERS) More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of U.S. policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s government to stop its persistent violations of a civil war cease-fire. The “dissent channel cable” was signed by 51 mid- to high-level State Department officers involved with advising on Syria policy. It was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The cable calls for “targeted military strikes” against […]
PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday (March 27), inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army […]
(Reuters) – With the latest Syrian government offensive backed by Russian airstrikes in Aleppo, tens of thousands more Syrians have shown up at the Turkish-Syrian border, desperately hoping the gates will open. Turkey is currently hosting over 2.5 million Syrian refugees. The swelling numbers are taking a toll on many of its cities — the number of refugees in some areas such as Kilis is almost equal to that of the local population. The town […]
The Syrian government ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of its 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas in 2015 and only 620,000 received help, according to Stephen O’Brien, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, in a briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Wednesday. It comes just two days before UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura is to facilitate intra-Syrian talks in Geneva. “The continued suffering of the Syrian […]
The Syrian government and its opposition have reached an agreement on evacuating the besieged militants and families in three towns under UN mediation, sources said Sunday. According to the agreement, militants trapped in the Syrian-Lebanon border town of Zabadani will be allowed to head for the airport in Lebanon’s capital Beirut through a secure channel and leave for Turkey under the supervision of the International Red Cross, starting from Monday, sources said. The militants have […]
