Syria
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Earlier today, Iran’s supreme leader dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments to senior military leaders did not not touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike on the central city of Isfahan on Friday, even though air defences opened fire and Iran grounded commercial…
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Iran has no plan for immediate retaliation to the apparent Israeli attack this morning, a senior Iranian official has said. Speaking to Reuters, the unnamed official said the country was looking at whether the operation was an “infiltration” rather than an attack. “The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed,” they said. “We…
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A barrage of rockets was launched from southern Lebanon towards Galilee in northern Israel, an Israeli media outlet reported on Friday evening. “Heavy missile fire was directed towards Galilee, along with several sirens sounding amid concerns of aircraft penetration into Israeli territory,” reported Israeli daily Maariv. “Sirens were activated in the communities of Dafna, Snir,…
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Iran’s threat to carry out a retaliatory attack on Israel in reprisal for the bombing of its consulate in Damascus, Syria are “very credible,” the White House said Friday. “We still deem the potential threat by Iran here to be real, to be viable, certainly credible, and we’re watching it as closely as we can,”…
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The Syrian army says its air defences shot down Israeli missiles launched at an area of countryside near the capital of Damascus overnight. The army detected fire from the disputed Golan Heights, it said, causing “some material losses”. If its claims are accurate, it would be the second such attack in less than 24 hours,…
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The death toll in the Israeli strike on Damascus has risen to five, according to Iranian state media. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say a fifth member of their ranks has died after being wounded in the attack in the Syrian capital. The head of the force’s information unit is reported to be among the dead. There…
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More now on the artillery exchange between Syria and Israel. Earlier this evening we reported how a number of shells had been launched from Syrian territory towards Israel, and the latter had responded in kind, according to its military. Now a source in southern Syria has said a Palestinian faction had fired three rockets toward…
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China and Syria will upgrade their relationship to a strategic partnership, following a meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and Syria’s diplomatically-isolated leader Bashar al-Assad in Hangzhou today. “In the face of an unstable and uncertain international environment, China is willing to continue to work with Syria in the interests of friendly cooperation and safeguarding…
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The present stalemate in Syria is intolerable, as the country remains unsafe for refugees to return, said the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria on Friday, urging parties to allow in humanitarian aid. “There are no ultimate winners, and the country remains one that is unsafe for the return of…
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At least 53 people have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central desert province of Homs, state media has reported, blaming the killings on ISIL (ISIS). The bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, citing the…
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Rescuers have saved two children wedged underneath the rubble of their home in northern Syria, following the world’s deadliest earthquake for more than a decade. The sisters had been trapped for over 36 hours after the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck on Monday. More than 9,000 deaths have now been recorded in Syria and Turkey due to the quake, with search…
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Rescuers from Turkey and Syria, and increasingly from around the world as international assistance arrived, have continued to search the rubble for survivors early Wednesday after major earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Officials say the number of dead tallied in the two countries so far is climbing toward 9,000, with fears that this figure could double. Turkey’s Disaster Management Authority…
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Families wait through the rubble of buildings in Kahramanmaras, the quake’s epicentre after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast, to rescue a newborn. The combined death toll has risen above 5 000 for Turkey and Syria after the region’s strongest quake in nearly a century. Syria longs for international aid amid earthquake devastation The…
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Australia is preparing to rescue and repatriate up to 60 ISIS brides and their children who have languished for years in Syrian detention camps. The rescue plan, which successive governments have wrestled with for years, will see the return of 16 women and 42 children held in al-Roj detention camp, near the Iraqi border. Kamalle…
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The leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was claimed to have been killed in October 2019 during a US Special Forces operation in the Syrian province of Idlib, according to US President Donald Trump. According to a press release by the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), two leaders…
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Turkey has thrown three human traffickers behind bars in the case of a Syrian toddler whose death made headlines around the world, CNN reports. The three organizers, caught by Turkish law enforcement after fleeing the trial, were each sentenced Friday to 125 years in prison. Their crime: “killing with eventual intent.” The 3-year-old Syrian, Alan Kurdi, was…
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