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End of Euphrates Shield, says Turkish Security Council

Turkey’s operation in northern Syria has been successfully concluded, a statement from National Security Council read on Wednesday. Operation Euphrates Shield, which was launched last August “has been concluded successfully”, according to the statement after a four-hour meeting chaired...

Spillways functioning normally at Syrian dam

Spillways at the Tabqa Euphrates dam are functioning normally after engineers carried out repairs, a media official with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia, which is trying to capture the dam from ISIS, said on Wednesday. ISIS warned on Sunday that the dam was at risk of...

ISIS shelling stops work on damaged Syrian dam

ISIS shelled positions held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River Wednesday, forcing engineers to temporarily halt efforts to stop a potential collapse, a Reuters witness said. ISIS fired from the southern end of the dam, which it controls,...

Bus bombing hits Syria's Homs, five dead

A bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven Wednesday, state media reported. The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, which has repeatedly been targeted in bombings. Most of the neighborhood's...