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Turkey will launch operation in Syria if safe zone not established: minister

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that if a planned safe zone in northern Syria is not established, and if threats continue against Turkey, a military operation will be launched east of the Euphrates river. Turkey has been in talks with the United States over the...

Pope Francis's envoy tells Syria's Assad of concern for Idlib's civilians

Pope Francis's envoy told Syrian President Bashar Assad in a meeting Monday of the Pope's concerns for the humanitarian situation in northwest Syria, a Vatican spokesperson said in a statement. Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson gave Assad a letter in which the pontiff expressed "deep...

Russian air strike kills 28 civilians in northwest Syria: Observatory

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian airstrike on a market in northwest Syria killed 28 civilians Monday, an activist group said, in the latest violence to plague the country's last major opposition bastion. At least 100 other people were wounded in the raid that hit "a wholesale vegetable market...

Syrian air defenses thwart hostile fire in city of Masyaf in Hama Governorate: state TV

Syrian air defenses on Sunday thwarted hostile fire in the northwestern city of Masyaf in Hama Governorate, state TV reported. It said explosions heard in Masyaf were a result of shells launched by rebel groups in the western countryside of Hama.