Syrians who fled violence in their country and sought sanctuary in France are having a hard time integrating with locals, Anadolu News Agency reports. When the war in Syria began in 2011, French-Algerian journalist, Khaled Sid Mohand, was detained and imprisoned for 24 days while covering events in Damascus. He spoke to Anadolu about the[…]
The first high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian officials in Moscow last week was cordial but no deals have been made, multiple sources told Middle East Eye. The Turkish and Syrian defence ministers, along with their Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, met on Thursday, elevating contacts that had previously been held on a strictly intelligence level. Ministerial[…]
INTERNATIONAL A total of 547 detainees have died in the Syrian regime’s detention centers in 2022, according to a UK-based human rights group on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. “The Syrian regime has registered thousands of forcibly disappeared persons as dead, including prominent activists from the popular uprising against its rule,” the[…]
INTERNATIONAL US forces killed two Islamic State group “officials” in an overnight raid in eastern Syria, US Central Command (Centcom) said on Sunday. The forces “conducted a successful helicopter raid in eastern Syria at 2.57am (11.57 GMT)… killing two ISIS officials,” Centcom said in a statement, using an alternative acronym for the IS group[…]
INTERNATIONAL A protester and a policeman were killed Sunday in Syria‘s southern city of Sweida as security forces cracked down on a rare demonstration by hundreds against deteriorating living conditions. Tensions were high in the regime-held city after protesters threw rocks at a government building and stormed it, removing a large picture of[…]
INTERNATIONAL Turkey’s threatened incursion into northern Syria is testing US efforts to balance between an important counterterrorism partner in the Middle East and a pivotal geopolitical ally in the war in Ukraine. At the heart of the tussle between Ankara and Washington is the United States’ support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),[…]
INTERNATIONAL Russian officials are trying to convince Damascus and Kurdish fighters to withdraw from the northern Syrian city of Tal Rifaat to prevent a Turkish ground offensive, according to Al Jazeera and al-Araby al-Jadeed. Turkish officials told Al Jazeera that the Russian side is making efforts to meet Turkey’s demands in northern Syria as an alternative to[…]
INTERNATIONAL The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to say that Ankara is planning to deploy ground forces to attack Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units, or YPG, forces based across the border in Syria. Turkey blames what it considers to be the YPG’s parent organisation, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), for[…]
INTERNATIONAL Turkish air strikes hit several towns across northern Syria, including the city of Kobane late Saturday, said Kurdish-led forces there and a Britain-based monitoring group. At least six members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and six pro-government soldiers were killed in the strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.[…]
INTERNATIONAL As Istanbul’s central shopping district of Taksim recovers from the weekend attack that killed six people and wounded dozens more, Turkey’s Syrian community finds itself in the spotlight, fearing a backlash. Turkish authorities have arrested Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national the police say confessed to being trained by the armed wing of the Kurdistan[…]
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