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Turkey on Tuesday sent more tanks into Syria and sternly warned a Kurdish militia to withdraw from frontline positions. The tanks joined those which crossed the frontier on Wednesday in the so-called Operation Euphrates Shield, which Turkey says aims at ridding the northern Syrian border […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Die Internationale Organisation für Migration (IOM) im Libanon und die Botschaft feierten am 25. August den Start des Familienunterstützungsprogramms (FAP) für Syrer mit der Eröffnung eines neuen IOM-Familienunterstützungszentrums in Beirut. In seiner Eröffnungsrede hob Botschafter Martin Huth die mit dem Projekt verknüpften Hoffnungen hervor: „The […]

« Voici un dangereux événement historique dont la survenue ne fait qu’augmenter le risque d’une guerre totale. » Au cours des dernières 24 heures, les États-Unis ont rendu très clair leur statut de force d’occupation hostile en Syrie. Hier, les USA ont transmis un communiqué […]

At least 159 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy early Wednesday as most residents were sleeping in their homes. Officials say the towns of Amatrice and Accumoli appear to be the hardest hit by the quake, which struck at […]

One student was killed and 14 injured in an attack on American University of Afganistan in Kabul, Reuters reported citing the head of Kabul hospitals. Earlier on Wednesday, the Afghan news channel TOLOnews reported that armed assailants had breached the university after setting off explosives […]