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Over the same period Scotland housed 249 Syrian refugees and Northern Ireland 104, Home Office figures show. Nine of Wales’ 22 councils had taken part in the Syrian refugee settlement programme up to the end of June, four more than three months earlier. Oxfam Cymru […]

Facing accusations that it acted aggressively toward a US warship in the Persian Gulf this week, Iran has defended its actions. This comes amid reports of a series of close encounters between US and Iranian vessels that took place in the region this week. On […]

Syria said that a chemical attack that killed hundreds of civilians in August 2013 was orchestrated by French intelligence agencies. Appearing during a heated session of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari hit out at several members […]

Iraqi forces on Wednesday closed in on the centre of Qayyarah, officials said, on the second day of an operation to recapture the town from ISIL terrorists. Qayyarah lies on the western bank of the Tigris river, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) south of Mosul, […]

Russia’s foreign ministry expressed deep concern on Wednesday at Turkey’s military operation in Syria, warning of rising tension over Ankara’s targeting of Kurdish militia fighters at the border. “We are deeply concerned at what is happening in the Syrian-Turkish border area,” the ministry said in […]

NNA – Finance Minister, Ali Hasan Khalil, on Thursday voiced rejection to any return to 1960 law in parliamentary elections, expressing optimism about continuing dialogue in favor of reaching a new electoral law. Minister Khalil’s stance came Thursday in the context of his meeting with […]

Ankara plans to expel militants, including the Kurdish armed forces, from Aleppo, in order to use the Syrian province as a trump card in future political negotiations, a member of the Democratic Union Party, formed by Syrian Kurds, said. ALEPPO (Sputnik) – On Wednesday, Turkish […]

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is launching a fresh bid to enlist Russia as a partner in Syria despite more than a month of dashed hopes as the situation on the ground becomes more volatile and uncertain with the introduction of Turkish ground forces. As the […]

The Free Syrian Army plans to start an operation to liberate the strategic city of al-Bab in Syria’s Aleppo province, Redif Müslim a lawyer and representative of the FSA told Sputnik in an interview. A destroyed building in the Bani Zeid district in north Aleppo […]