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By Kasim Ileri WASHINGTON (AA) – U.S. airstrikes have killed at least 20 civilians and injured 11 others in Iraq and Syria between last September and early February, a defense official said Friday. However, human rights group says 380 civilians were killed in 18 months since the beginning of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Syria. […]

18th Apr 2016

Syria: Golan Heights will never be returned to Syria: Netanyahu

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA) – The occupied Golan Heights will never be returned to Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday. At the first-ever official Israeli meeting held within the occupied region itself, Netanyahu described the Golan Heights as an “integral” part of Israel and challenged the notion that Israel had “occupied” […]

18th Apr 2016

Switzerland: Syrian opposition refuses power-sharing with Govt

GENEVA (AA) – The opposition’s top negotiator in Geneva’s Syrian talks said Sunday his group is working for a fully empowered transitional government without the participation of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his proxies, not any power-sharing with the regime. Asaad al-Zoubi, the head of the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee (HNC), told Anadolu Agency […]

17th Apr 2016

Turkey: Erdogan: Iran, Turkey should work together

ANKARA (AA): Ankara and Tehran should lead the way to ending violence in Iraq, Syria, and the region, Turkey’s president said on Saturday. Speaking at a joint news conference alongside his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined the role of trans-regional and regional dialogue mechanisms led by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation […]

16th Apr 2016

Syria: Thousands flee camps after Daesh attacks

By Levent Tok and Selen Temizer ANKARA (AA): Thirty thousand Syrians sought refuge near the Turkish border Friday after the Daesh terrorist group targeted three other camps in the northern province of Aleppo, according to Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) officials. IHH staff working at the Turkish-Syrian border told Anadolu Agency that Daesh attacked three […]

18th Mar 2016

US: Daesh committing genocide

[Photo: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Daesh commiting genocide against minorities. Photo: Erkin Keci/AA] By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA) – Daesh is committing genocide in territories it controls in Iraq and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. “In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its […]

15th Mar 2016

Syria: Putin announces reduction of Russian forces

MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will start withdrawing “most” of its forces from Syria Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday. “I think that the tasks set to the Defense Ministry are generally fulfilled. That is why I order to begin withdrawal of most of our military group from Syria starting from tomorrow,” Russian News Agency […]

9th Mar 2016

EU: Over 141,000 refugees enter Europe in 2016

ANKARA (AA) – More than 141,000 refugees have reached Europe by sea so far this year, according to the International Organization of Migration. The organization said in a statement Tuesday that 9,294 refugees crossed into Italy and 131,847 others into Greece through the Mediterranean between Jan. 1, 2016 and March 7, 2016. A total of […]

8th Mar 2016

Syria: 15 killed in attack in Idlib

By Mohamed Misto IDLIB, (AA): At least 15 people were killed in a regime attack in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province Monday, local sources have said. A regime warplane struck a fuel market in Idlib, killing 15 people and injuring 40 others, civil defense sources told Anadolu Agency. The attack has left several shops in […]

3rd Mar 2016

Syria: Car bomb targets rebel group, killing 30

DARAA, (AA) – At least 30 people were killed Wednesday when a car bomb targeted a meeting of moderate rebel commanders in southern Syria, an opposition commander said. The attack in Quneitra province saw scores from various opposition groups wounded, Salman al-Atwa, a commander with the Syria Revolutionaries Front, said. Al-Atwa, who was slightly injured […]

2nd Mar 2016

UN postpones Syrian peace talks

ANKARA (AA) – The UN announced Tuesday the postponement of Syrian peace talks between the government and opposition members by two days. Talks will now start March 9 to allow “adequate time to address logistical and practical matters” the UN’s envoy on Syria said Tuesday. Staffan de Mistura said he was looking forward to “Syrian […]

27th Feb 2016

Syria: US Special Forces help rebels capturing Shadadi

WASHINGTON (AA) — U.S. Special Forces in Syria have helped a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rebel group move into the northeastern town of Shadadi held by Daesh, a U.S. coalition spokesman said Friday. “We have advisers with the SDF as we have had a small group of advisers inside Syria that are connected to the […]

27th Feb 2016

UN council votes unanimously to put Syria truce into action

NEW YORK (AA) — The UN Security Council on Friday endorsed a plan to halt fighting in Syria, less than an hour before the deal was set to take effect. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-nation body demanded the “cessation of hostilities” brokered by the U.S. and Russia to begin as planned at 00:00 […]

24th Feb 2016

Syria: 5 years on, fighting rages on multiple fronts

ALEPPO, (AA): Syria’s multi-front civil war, now in its fifth year, is now seeing fierce clashes between Russia-backed regime forces, armed opposition groups, the Daesh terrorist group and the PYD, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate. Clashes are currently taking place in the northwestern Aleppo province; the northwestern Idlib and Latakia provinces; the west-central Homs […]

22nd Feb 2016

Syria: Daesh kill 140 civilians in Homs & Baghdad

By Mohamed Misto HOMS, (AA): At least 140 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday by twin car bombs that shook Syria’s central city of Homs and capital Baghdad according to local sources. Daesh has claimed responsibity for both bombings. At least four blasts struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zaynab, killing […]

19th Feb 2016

US, Russia map no-go zones in Syria

WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S. and Russia have outlined certain areas in Syria to help ensure the safety of military assets of both countries, a U.S. general said Thursday. “There are some areas we have talked to them about and that’s really where we have some of our coalition forces, particularly as you look around […]

19th Feb 2016

US refuses to confirm YPG behind Ankara attack

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S on Thursday would neither confirm nor deny that terrorist group YPG’s responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Ankara a day earlier. “I’m not going to speak to specific evidence that others may be looking at or be talking about while, as far as we […]

16th Feb 2016

Iran says ‘no military solution in Syria’

BRUSSELS (AA) – Iran has urged world powers to stop “believing in the illusion” that there is a military solution to the conflict in Syria. Speaking after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Monday, Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif said: “We believe there has to be general recognition by […]

16th Feb 2016

Syria: Russian warplanes hit two hospitals, killing 14

By Mohamed Misto IDLIB, (AA): At least 14 people were killed on Monday when Russian warplanes struck two hospitals in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, according to a local source. One of the airstrikes, which struck a hospital funded by Geneva-based medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), killed 11 people and injured 25, a […]

15th Feb 2016

Syria: Russian airstrikes set to continue

By Selen Temizer ANKARA (AA) – Ongoing Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to be hindering a political solution to the conflict despite last week’s meeting in Munich of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), to which Moscow and Washington both sent representatives. Moscow had called for postponing planned ‘cessation of hostilities’ to March 1 […]

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