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NNA – Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdel Karim Ali, said on Sunday that the countries that conspired against Syria were suffering today from the terrorism which they supported and exported to the country. “Syria has almost defeated terrorist organizations and those who supported them,” […]

NNA – Forces loyal to Libya’s U.N.-backed unity government pushed Sunday into the last areas of Sirte held by the Islamic State group in what was the jihadists’ coastal stronghold, a spokesman said. “Our forces entered the last areas held by Daesh in Sirte: district […]

BERLIN: Faced with more than 1 million migrants flooding across the Mediterranean last year, European nations tightened border controls, set up naval patrols to stop smugglers, negotiated an agreement with Turkey to limit the numbers crossing, shut the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands, […]

Syrian army units have been working on Sunday to secure the town of Daraya following the terrorists’ evacuation on Saturday. Al-Manar correspondent in Damascus reported that the Syrian army engineering units dismantled the explosives and mines left by the terrorists in order to pave the […]

A new report raised questions over the Saudi Arabia’s role in fueling the global extremism across the world. Scott Shane wrote in the New York Times that it has become a commonplace to think that “Saudi Arabia’s export of the rigid, bigoted, patriarchal, fundamentalist strain […]

ALEPPO, Syria, Aug. 28 (UPI) — Two barrel bombs were dropped on a funeral wake for children in Aleppo, Syria, killing at least 16 people. The wake was taking place in the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Bab al-Nayrab, the same place where some 15 people were […]

It seems that Turkey is attempting to fight a war on several fronts; this was never the plan, expert Stanislav Tarasov wrote for the Russian news agency Regnum. A Turkish army tank and an armoured vehicle are stationed near the Turkish-Syrian border in Karkamis in […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Turkish operation in northern Syria will continue until Ankara eradicates the roots the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). ANKARA (Sputnik) — Ankara will continue its Euphrates Shield military operation in northern Syria until the threat posed by […]

By sacrificing its Kurdish allies in northern Syria, Washington wants to mend relations with Ankara and prevent Turkey from strengthening its ties with Moscow, thus far killing two birds with one stone, expert on Middle Eastern affairs Jean Perier believes. Washington’s Kurdish allies in Syria […]