India has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to assess the “costs of its actions and inactions” in Syria and said there is an urgent need to build consensus on the humanitarian situation and collectively work to ameliorate the sufferings of people in the middle eastern country. Speaking in the UNSC Meeting on Syria (humanitarian issues) […]
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Pentagon: US conducts air strikes against Iranian-backed militia facilities in Syria
President Joe Biden yesterday directed US military air strikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militia, in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq. The strikes, which were first reported by Reuters, appeared to be limited in scope, potentially […]
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Syria alleges ‘Israeli aggression’ in Hama, four dead
Syrian air defences confronted early today “an Israeli aggression” in the region of Hama that killed four people from the same family, state media said. Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria in recent years against suspected Iranian military deployments or arms transfers to Tehran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah […]
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Israel airstrikes target Iran-linked military base in Syria
Syrian air defences on Sunday night opened fire in response to missiles being fired from inside Israel, the state media reported. Without divulging further details in the matter, the Syrian state TV, however, quoted residents in Damascus as saying that explosions could be heard near the capital. There were no […]
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US releases video, photos of raid on ISIS chief Baghdadi in Syria
The Pentagon released video and photos on Wednesday of the US special forces raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Among the images released by the Defence Department was grainy black-and-white footage of US troops approaching on foot the high-walled compound in northwestern […]
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Donald Trump lifts Turkey sanctions, quits ‘blood-stained’ Syria
President Donald Trump ended sanctions against Turkey on Wednesday, drawing a line under American involvement in “blood-stained” Syria, as Turkish and Russian troops seized territory previously held by US troops and their beleaguered Kurdish allies. “Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand,” Trump said in a White House […]