An iconic bakery and co-ordination centre set up on the Turkish border to facilitate humanitarian assistance to Syria’s refugees has gone up in flames. The centre in the town of Reyhanli – well known to aid workers from across the world(including South Africa) and run by the Turkish charity IHH –[…]
Syria’s warring parties declared a 48-hour ceasefire in two frontline areas on Wednesday after unprecedented mediation from Turkey and Iran, signaling a new approach by some of the main regional backers of the opposing sides. The ceasefire halted fighting between insurgents on the one hand, and the army and its[…]
Russia and Saudi Arabia have failed in talks held in Moscow to overcome their differences on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a central dispute in Syria’s civil war that shows no sign of abating despite renewed diplomacy. Moscow has called for coordination between the Syrian government and members[…]
Almost a quarter of a million people, including nearly 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it broke out in March 2011, a UK-based activist group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said it had documented the deaths of 240,381 people, up from its tally[…]
The Turkish government is preventing the bodies of 13 people, including one European, killed fighting with the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) from crossing into Turkey from Syria, a rights group told MEE. According to the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD), the bodies are waiting in a customs area in an[…]
In an unprecedented move in the battle to contain an Islamic State insurgency in Northern Iraq and Syria, Turkey has finally approved a deal that will allow the United States to launch airstrikes from a key military base in the southern part of the country. The decision represents a major[…]
In January 2011, in the wake of the Arab spring that swept across the Middle East and North Africa, anti-government demonstrations began in Syria. Syria’s government responded with violent crackdowns against protesters. From those crackdowns rebel groups were formed whose main aim back then was to depose of the government[…]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to win his country’s long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops are struggling to maintain control over territory amid lack of manpower. In a televised speech on Sunday before local dignitaries in Damascus, the embattled president tried to justify why the Syrian army has given[…]
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and four others wounded in a car bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, while Turkish aircraft continued bombing ISIL positions in neighbouring Syria and Kurdish fighters in Iraq. The blast struck a military vehicle passing through the town of Lice on Saturday[…]
Turkey has said areas in north Syria cleared of fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group will be turned into safe zones. Saturday’s announcement made by Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, came after Ankara announced it had begun bombing ISIL positions in Syria[…]
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