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Israeli missiles target Syria again
Damascus: The Syrian air defences were triggered by a fresh Israeli missile strike, which targeted sites in the south earlier on Thursday and killed a Syrian soldier, state news agency SANA reported.…
- Middle East
Syrian govt condemns Turkish extension of troops deployment in Syria
Damascus: The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the Turkish decision to extend its troops’ deployment in Syria and Iraq for two more years, saying such practices threaten international peace and security, according…
- Middle East
Lebanon arrests 14 Syrians over illegal entry
Beirut: Lebanon’s security authorities have arrested a human smuggling network attempting to facilitate the illegal entry of 14 Syrian nationals. The arrests were made in the northern district of Akkar, Xinhua news…
- Middle East
Turkey to tighten controls on refugees in big cities
Ankara: Turkey will tighten controls on non-documented refugees in big cities to ease the rising anti-immigrant sentiment among Turkish people, a local newspaper said in a report. Turkish authorities plan to identify…
- Syria
Displaced Syrians start new year in abandoned prison
IDLIB: Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds of thousands…
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Displaced Syrian grows mushrooms to feed family
Nasrallah (L) and his son Saeed harvest mushrooms in the darkened room they use to grow the fungi in a camp in the town of Haarem in northwestern Idlib province in November.…
- Syria
Displaced Syrian grows mushrooms to feed family
HAREEM: In a camp for the displaced in northern Syria, Nasrallah scatters mushroom spores into a bag of wet hay, hoping they will sprout and feed his family. “Mushrooms have become the…
- Syria
Around 200 displaced Syrians leave Al-Hol camp: Kurds
QAMISHLI: Around 200 Syrian displaced people, mostly women and children, were heading home from an overcrowded desert camp in the northeast of the war-torn country on Sunday, a Kurdish official said. Syria‘s…
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No longer safe in bombed-out camp, say displaced Syrians
QAH: Abu Mahmoud thought he and his family had found relative safety from Syria‘s war, but then rocket fire pounded their camp in the night, killing 16 civilians. On Thursday morning, his brother’s…
- Syria
Turkey: 200 Syrians returned to area cleared of Kurd militia
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s defence ministry said Thursday that around 200 Syrians had returned to their homes after its offensive against Kurdish militants last month, with another 300 on the way. “Close to 200…
- Syria
US says 128,000 Syrians subject to arbitrary detention
UNITED NATIONS: The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release. “This practice is unacceptable,” US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the…
- Syria
Jordan says 153,000 Syrians returned home since October
AMMAN: Around 153,000 Syrians have returned to their country from Jordan since the reopening of a key border post last October, the interior ministry said Tuesday. Of the 153,000 who returned via…
- Syria
Idlib chaos forces displaced Syrians into strange dwellings
Birat Armanaz: Inside a rusty, abandoned bus in northwestern Syria, Umm Joumaa washes a silver tray and glass teacups, light pouring into her makeshift kitchen through broken windows. Around her, towels, bedsheets, clothes…
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Aid sent to displaced Syrians near Jordan border: UN
DAMASCUS: The United Nations said Friday it had sent aid to thousands of displaced Syrians living in an isolated desert camp near the Jordanian border, the first such delivery since February. The…
- Syria
Turkish guards fire in air, stop protesting Syrians border: AFP
Turkish border guards Friday fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse hundreds of Syrian protesters demanding Ankara help stop a deadly Damascus regime offensive in northwestern Syria, an AFP reporter said. The…
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