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Syria: Looming Turkish ground offensive poses predicament for Damascus

INTERNATIONAL Damascus is watching and waiting as Turkey inches towards a ground assault in northeastern Syria following cross-border hostilities between Ankara and Kurdish-led forces in the region. The Turkish military on Sunday launched an aerial operation aimed at forces linked to the Kurdish-led Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which control much of Syria’s northeast. Turkey says[…]

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Bomb attack on military bus kills 18 Syria soldiers

INTERNATIONAL A military bus was bombed near the Syrian capital, Damascus, today, killing at least 18 Syrian soldiers and wounding 27 others in what is the latest attack on regime forces’ transport vehicles. According to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), which cited a military source, the bus in the[…]

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Israeli warplanes strike Damascus, air defenses destroy ‘most’ of the hostile missiles (VIDEO)

Syrian air defenses have repelled an Israeli raid, intercepting several “hostile missiles” over southern Damascus, and destroying the majority of them before the projectiles hit the ground, state news agency SANA reported. ALSO ON RT.COM: Several blasts heard near Syria’s Damascus airport – state media Citing a Syrian military source,[…]

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Multiple casualties in blast near Lebanese embassy as Syrian air defenses engage ‘hostile targets’ in Damascus skies (PHOTOS)

At least two people have been killed and six other wounded after a blast rocked the Mazzeh district of Damascus just as the military’s air defense engaged a “hostile target” over the nearby suburb of Daraya, SANA reports. A suspected missile strike hit a civilian building near the Lebanese Embassy[…]

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Syrian army bombards Yarmouk camp, war monitor says

The Syrian army bombarded militants in the last area outside government control near Damascus overnight, as President Bashar al-Assad accelerated his push to retake remaining enclaves. US, British and French air strikes on Saturday to punish Assad for suspected use of chemical weapons have done nothing to slow the advance[…]

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