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Turkish-backed forces impose curfew in Jarablus

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces have imposed a curfew on civilians from Wednesday morning in the border city of Jarablus amid security campaign tracking ‘corrupt’ rebels, the National Army said in statement. A major military campaign was launched by the Turkish forces and...

Syrian 'Toy Smuggler' jailed for donation fraud

A Helsinki court Wednesday found a Finnish-Syrian man who won global media fame for distributing toys to orphans in Syria guilty of money laundering and fraud. Rami Adham, dubbed the "Toy Smuggler" for his campaign to collect money for orphans in the war-ravaged town of Aleppo, was...

Iraq launches air strikes against Daesh in Syria

Iraq launched air strikes on Daesh (ISIS) targets inside neighboring Syria on Tuesday, destroying two buildings housing 40 fighters and weapons, its military said. F-16 fighter jets destroyed a building where members of the ultra-hardline Sunni militant group were storing weapons,...

Leishmaniasis spread in eastern Syria

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis disease has spread in the eastern town of al-Myadeen due to the piles of rubbish and lack of medical care, activists told Zaman al-Wasl, reporting more than 70 cases.  The ‘intracellular protozoan parasite’ spread in the eastern countryside of Deir...

Syrians continue to return to terror-free hometown

Hundreds of Syrians left Turkey on Tuesday for terror-free regions of Syria as part of ongoing voluntary return program. Taking refuge in Turkey due to civil war in Syria, 400 Syrians -- including women and children -- from different parts of Turkey were voluntarily repatriated from...

Inmates on hunger strike at Hama prison

Dozens of inmates in a prison in central Syria are on an eighth day of a hunger strike to protest against a raft of death sentences, two of them and rights groups said Monday. Hama central prison holds hundreds of inmates, most of them men who were detained in connection with the...

Clashes between pro-Turkish rebels kill 25 in Afrin

Clashes on Sunday between Turkish-backed rebel factions vying for influence in the northern Syrian town of Afrin left 25 fighters dead, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March after a two-month air and ground offensive....

Boko Haram spox killed in NE Nigeria: Army

A spokesman of Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist movement has been killed in a military operation in the country's northeastern Borno state, the army said late Saturday. “Reports available reveal that one Sale Ahmad Sale a. k. a. Baban Hassan the leader of Al-Barnawi Media group, a faction...