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Qatar ruler heads to Saudi Arabia for Gulf summit

Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani left Doha on Tuesday for Saudi Arabia to attend the annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. According to a statement by the Qatari Royal Court, Sheikh Tamim will lead his country’s delegation to the summit in Al-Ula city, northwest of Saudi...

Militants attack bus in central Syria, killing 9

Militants ambushed buses traveling down a highway in central Syria late Sunday, killing nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, state media reported. The ambush is the second this week to target buses traveling between government-controlled areas and to be blamed on suspected Islamic...

11 civilians injured in Kashmir grenade blast

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir At least 11 civilians were injured in a grenade attack on Indian forces in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police officials said. Suspected militants hurled a grenade towards Indian forces deployed near a bus stand in Tral, Awantipora in...

Turkish aid group sends 6 truckloads to NW Syria

A Turkish humanitarian group on Thursday sent six truckloads of aid supplies to an area in northwestern Syria cleared of terrorists by a Turkish military operation. Yusuf Bulbul, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation's (IHH) Kahramanmaras regional manager, told Anadolu Agency that they sent...

Israel says it hit 50 Syria targets in 2020

Israel's military, which rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria blamed on its forces, said Thursday it had hit about 50 targets in the neighbouring country in 2020. The annual report released by the Israel Defence Forces did not provide details about the targets hit, but Israel is...

Syria war killed 6,800 in 2020, lowest annual toll

The Syrian conflict claimed at least 6,800 people in 2020, the lowest annual death toll since it began nearly a decade ago, a war monitor said Thursday. According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 10,000 people were killed in the conflict in 2019....