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Despite a crippling siege, infighting and a ferocious wave of bombardment, Syrian rebels have clung on to their Eastern Ghouta stronghold near Damascus – but a looming ground offensive might finally oust them. A renewed regime air campaign has left nearly 200 civilians dead in just three...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Russia had supplied the regime forces with urgent shipments of weapons and air bombs a day before regime forces launched an all-out offensive to seize the eastern enclave of Damascus. Most of ammunition and weapons were delivered to...
Turkey managed to thwart a possible deployment of Syrian government forces into the northwestern Afrin region, President Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, a day after he spoke to his Russian and Iranian counterparts. Turkey Monday had warned it would confront Syrian government forces if they...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that the situation in Afrin could be resolved through direct dialogue between Damascus and Ankara, the Interfax news agency cited him as saying. Turkey-led forces will begin besieging the town in coming days, part of Ankara's operation...
An Egyptian court put former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh on a terrorism list Tuesday, state news agency MENA reported, following his arrest for alleged contacts with the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Abol Fotouh, a former Islamist who leads the Strong Egypt party, was...
A group of Turks who reached a Greek island by dinghy from Turkey are seeking political asylum in Greece, authorities in Athens said Tuesday. The 17 were reportedly Turkish civil servants and their families who fled a government crackdown in the wake of a failed 2016 coup....
At least 106 civilians were killed Tuesday in relentless bombardment on besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, a monitor said, the second straight day the death toll topped 100 civilians. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than a dozen children were among the dead....
Egyptian officials say the country will open its border with the Gaza Strip amid a military campaign against militant insurgents in restive northern Sinai Peninsula. The two officials said Tuesday the Rafah crossing point will operate starting Wednesday for four days on a humanitarian basis....
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday he would travel to Russia and Iran in the coming days to discuss the war in Syria. "We're heading toward a humanitarian cataclysm" in Syria if nothing is done, Le Drian told French lawmakers.
Syrian state media reported on Tuesday that Turkish forces had shelled pro-Syrian government fighters after they entered Afrin region to help ward off a Turkish attack. Turkish state media then reported that the military had fired "warning shots" at the Syria pro-regime forces in the...
At least 20 undocumented Afghan migrants were held in the central Turkish province of Sivas after they illegally entered the country, according to a security source on Tuesday. The migrants, including 10 children, were caught after gendarmerie forces stopped a minibus on Tokat-Erzincan...
A total of 205 Boko Haram militants have been convicted and 526 others freed for lack of evidence in the second round of mass trials of persons arrested in connection with the insurgency in northeast Nigeria, according to a statement. In the statement issued on late Monday, Salihu Isa,...
ANKARA: Turkey Tuesday released the former co-leader of the country's main pro-Kurdish party, the group said, after she was detained over her opposition to Ankara's offensive in northern Syria. Police arrested Serpil Kemalbay of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara on Feb.13,...
At least 106 civilians were killed Tuesday in relentless bombardment on besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, a monitor said, the second straight day the death toll topped 100 civilians. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than a dozen children were among the dead....
“Profile,” screening in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival, looks at how fighters from Daesh (ISIS) recruit young European women online. The lead actress in this feature-length fiction told Reuters the movie highlights the dangers of using the internet. British...
The hunt for a plane that went missing in Iran's Zagros mountains resumed for a third day on Tuesday with better weather raising hopes for the search and rescue teams. "Given the good weather conditions, clear skies and less wind, there is a good visibility today for continuing the...
Israeli police on Tuesday named the two close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who have been arrested for their suspected role in a wide-ranging corruption probe that has cast a further pall of suspicion over the longtime Israeli leader, already accused of bribery in two separate...
The UN has demanded an end to the targeting of civilians in Syria after a heavy bombardment killed at least 100 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to be preparing for an imminent ground assault. The escalation came as pro-government forces were also...
Iraq has received 36 Russian-made T-90 battle tanks as part of a deal, Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Gen. Othman al-Ghanimi said Monday. The delivery comes as part of a purchase agreement signed last year between Iraq and Russia for a total of 73 T-90s. The rest of the tanks will be...
(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Hezbollah’s armament is not a secret but a subject of pride for the Iran-formed militia and its Secretary General Hassan Naserallah who boasts about its weapons at every opportunity. The type of weapons and the capabilities are also no longer secrets as many...
