The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) launched on Monday a global fundraising campaign to sustain resources for its education, health and other assistance programmes.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi voiced the country’s concern about Turkey’s ground incursion into a city and Kurdish enclave in Syria known as Afrin and said Tehran stresses the need to protect the territorial integrity of the Arab country.
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish troops tried to cross the countries' border into the Afrin region on Sunday but were forced back.
A day since the beginning of military “Olive branch” operation that the Turkish authorities have decided to hold against the Syrian Kurdish armed groups, Turkey says its forces entered Syrian Afrin.
The Turkish government’s forces perpetrated a new transgression against Syrian sovereignty by shelling with various types of weapons a number of villages and towns in the provinces of Aleppo and Hasaka, injuring 7 civilians and causing considerable damage to houses.
The Syrian army managed to retake full control of Abu al-Duhour airbase, one of the key military bases in the northwestern province of Idlib.
The Turkish army said it launched new strikes Saturday against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria, amid mounting expectations of a cross-border ground operation.
A Turkish military convoy is seen making its way to the country's border with Syria.
Syria's Foreign Ministry says the U.S. is beyond its rights to intervene in Syrian affairs, one day after the Trump Administration laid out its expansive goals to influence the outcome of Syria's seven-year long war.
Footage shows Tomahawk (I-Hawk) missiles that are pointed towards Afrin in Syria have been placed along the Turkish border.
Turkey said on Thursday Washington's denial that it intended to build a border force in Syria was "important", but added Ankara would not remain silent in the face of any force that threatened its borders.
The so-called Free Syrian Army’s “free ride” with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could be short-lived, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
(The Guardian)
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey's planned military operation against Kurdish militia forces in Syria's Afrin region will be supported by Syrian rebel fighters.
Iranian foreign minister spokesman on Tuesday called on the US to stop its interventionist policy in Syria, saying the formation of ‘border security force’ will worsen the crisis in the war-torn country.
The Syrian Army determined to "end the presence of the US" in the country, Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, said Monday, citing an official at the Syria's Foreign Ministry.
The Syrian government denounced a new border force which the United States is building with its militia allies in northern Syria as a "blatant assault" on sovereignty, state media said on Monday.
Russia says its artillery units have wiped out a group of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists, who lobbed a barrage of mortar shells at the Russia-run Hmeimim air base in Syria's western coastal province of Latakia late last year.
Turkey called on Russia and Iran on Wednesday to pressure Syrian authorities to halt a military offensive in Syria's rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib launched by Damascus.
Russia says it detected an American spy aircraft circling in the skies between Russian bases in two Syrian cities during recent drone attacks on the facilities, implying that the United States may have been involved in the raids.