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By Abdel Rauf Arnaut JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli government hopes to settle some 250,000 Israelis in the occupied Syrian Golan heights over the next 30 years, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) reported on Monday. The report comes one week after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as “Israeli […]

26th Dec 2018

Israeli warplanes strike targets in Syria from Lebanon

By Faruk Zorlu, Esat Firat (AA): Israeli warplanes flying over southern Lebanon fired missiles at targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Tuesday, Syrian state media reported. Most of the missiles were shot down before hitting their targets, although an arms depot was struck and three soldiers were wounded, according to the regime-run […]

17th Dec 2018

Syria: US coalition airstrikes kill 17 civilians in Deir ez-Zour

By Mohamad Misto and Adham Kako DEIR EZ-ZOUR, Syria (AA): At least 17 civilians were killed on Sunday when the U.S.-led coalition launched airstrikes at a mosque in Syria’s eastern Deir Ez-Zour province. Local sources told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes were carried out in the Daesh-held Hejjin district on the eastern outskirts of […]

30th Nov 2018

Syria: US-led coalition strikes kill dozens in eastern Syria

By Mohamed Misto, Adham Kako and Ashraf Musa DEIR EZ-ZOR/IDLIB, Syria (AA): U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck a building used as a prison by the Daesh terrorist group, killing scores of people, including dozens of civilians, local sources told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. The coalition has continued to target the Hejjin district and surrounding towns […]

25th Nov 2018

Syria: Civilians killed by Syrian Govt & US led attacks

By Ashraf Musa IDLIB, Syria (AA): At least five civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian Government forces and allied militias in Syria’s northern Idlib province, according to the controversial White Helmets civil defense agency on Saturday. Meanwhile, twenty civilians, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes carried out by US-led coalition in […]

28th Oct 2018

Turkey: 30 irregular migrants rescued in Aegean Sea

By Durmus Genc and Ali Balli MUGLA, Turkey (AA): At least 17 irregular migrants have been rescued in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern coast, said security sources on Saturday. The migrants requested help from the Turkish Coast Guard when their rubber boat started taking in water off the Emecik district in the Mugla […]

23rd Oct 2018

Syria: US-led coalition strikes mosque deliberately in eastern Syria

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Monday targeted and destroyed a mosque in the Deir ez-Zor province, according to a top pentagon official. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters the mosque was deliberately targeted by U.S. forces because it was being used as a command center by Daesh. […]

21st Oct 2018

Syria: US-led coalition airstrikes kill 22 civilians in E Syria, 65 killed since Wed

By Adham Kako DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (AA) At least 22 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor province, according to local sources on Saturday. The sources said a coalition airstrike targeted a mosque in the town of al-Susah in eastern Deir Ez-zor during the weekly Friday prayer, killing […]

10th Oct 2018

Syria: Turkey, US training for joint patrols in Manbij

A view of the northern Syrian city of Manbij after YPG/PKK terror groups dug trenches and constructed earth banks on October 04, 2018. (Photo: Adnan Rakkavi/AA) By Sarp Ozer ANKARA (AA): Turkish and U.S. soldiers on Tuesday are beginning joint training on combined patrols in Manbij, northern Syria, Turkey’s national defense minister has announced. Syrian […]

31st Aug 2018

Between 1000 to 9,600 Iraqi, Syrian civilians killed by US-led coalition

By Muayyad al-Tarfi BAGHDAD (AA): A U.S.-led military coalition admitted Thursday that more than 1,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria had been killed by coalition airstrikes since the alliance was established four years ago to fight the Daesh terrorist group. However, in May, UK based monitoring group, AIrways, said in a report that US-led coalition […]

14th Aug 2018

UN: Thousands of Daesh terrorist fighters remain in Syria, Iraq

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): Despite their defeat, an estimated 20,000-30,000 Daesh terrorist fighters are still in Syria and Iraq, according to a UN report published Monday. The report on Daesh and Al-Qa’ida, which was presented to the Security Council, said a smaller number of Daesh fighters had made their way to Afghanistan, where […]

13th Aug 2018

Syria: Arms depot explosion kills 39, injures scores in Idlib

By Esref Musa IDLIB, Syria (AA): At least 39 people, including 12 children, were killed when an arms depot exploded in a residential building, in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. The blast took place in Sarmada district, where rebels and civilians displaced from the northern […]

26th Jul 2018

Syria: Suicide bombings by Daesh leaves 220 dead in SW Syria

By Mahmoud Barakat (AA & The Muslim News): 220 people were killed Wednesday in a series of suicide bombings in southwestern Syria, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. There were four blasts, one of which was carried out by a motorcycle bomber who ploughed into a marketplace in the city of Government controlled Sweida […]

6th Jul 2018

UN urges Jordan to open its border to thousands of Syrian refugees

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): The UN on Thursday called on Jordan to open its border and provide temporary shelter to tens of thousands of Syrian people fleeing airstrikes in southwestern Syria. “I am gravely concerned for the civilian population caught in the crossfire in South West Syria, including airstrikes and heavy shelling. An […]

19th Jun 2018

Iraq: US airstrikes kill 22 Hashd al-Shaabi fighters

By Haydar Hadi BAGHDAD (AA): Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi military force said Monday that 22 of its members had been killed in airstrikes carried out by U.S.-led coalition warplanes near Iraq’s border with Syria. Incorporated into the Iraqi Armed Forces in late 2016, the Hashd al-Shaabi, who are also known as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) […]

6th Jun 2018

Syria: Human Rights report slams hundreds of civilians killed in US-led raid on Raqqah

By Sadik Kedir (AA): The U.S., France, and Britain should admit to the hundreds of civilians they killed in their raid last year in Raqqah, Syria, calling it a “war of annihilation,” Amnesty International argued on Tuesday. “From amid the rubble of Raqqah, civilians are asking why U.S.-led coalition forces destroyed the city, killing […]

15th Apr 2018

Arab world divided on US-led bombing in Syria

ANKARA (AA): The Arab countries are divided on the U.S.-led bombing of alleged Syrian Government’s chemical sites on Saturday. The U.S., France and Britain launched the strikes days after a suspected chemical attack killed dozens in Douma in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. In a statement, Saudi Arabia said it “fully supports” the airstrikes […]

12th Apr 2018

Syria: 18th convoy from E Ghouta arrives in Al-Bab as Govt takes control of Douma

By Esref Musa, Omer Koparan and Adham Kako AL-BAB/IDLIB, Syria (AA): The 18th convoy carrying civilians and rebel fighters from the city of Douma in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta arrived in Aleppo’s Al-Bab district on Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground. Meanwhile,Syria’s government army has taken full control over […]

10th Apr 2018

US: US will respond to suspected chemical attack in Douma

By Safvan Allahverdi WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S. is “determined” to respond to the Assad Government’s latest alleged use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, regardless of whether the UN Security Council acts or not, a top American diplomat said Monday. However according to Reuters, “initial U.S. assessments have so far been unable to determine […]

9th Apr 2018

Syria: Death toll from suspected chemical attack rises to over 70

By Adham Kako, Mohamad Misto and Mahmut Geldi EASTERN GHOUTA, Syria / ANKARA, Turkey (AA): The civilian death toll rose to 78 from Saturday’s suspected chemical attack by allegedly by the Syrian Government in Douma, a district in Eastern Ghouta, local doctors said on Sunday. There has been no independent confirmation of the suspected […]

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