ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli air raid on Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least three soldiers, Syrian state media reported Thursday. The missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and struck military installations, said the Syrian News Agency (SANA). Seven troops were also wounded and the attacked facilities suffered ...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): An angry and grieving Iraq on Thursday buried nine holidaymakers — including a newlywed — killed in the artillery bombardment of a Kurdish hill village. The government has blamed neighboring Turkey, which denied its troops were responsible and instead accused rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Par...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye did not carry out any attack against civilians in northern Iraq’s Duhok province, the country’s foreign minister has stated. “According to information we received from the Turkish Armed Forces, we did not carry out any attack on civilians,” Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. Cavusoglu’s remarks came ...
BEIRUT (AA) – A father and his three sons have been arrested in Lebanon over the death of a teenage Syrian boy, state media reported on Thursday. All four are Lebanese nationals and were arrested in Sarafand, a town in the southern Sidon region, according to the official National News Agency. The 14-year-old Syrian boy, […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian regime policemen were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in an attack targeting their patrol in the southwestern governorate of Daraa, according to the regime’s news agency, SANA. “An armed group attacked a police patrol with light weapons, followed by the explosion of an explosive device, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Wednesday said the US exhibited “bandit behavior” by what Beijing called “stealing” oil from Syria. According to the Chinese daily Global Times, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was responding to reports about Washington transferring “stolen oil” to northern Iraq from “occupied Syrian oilfields.” “Bandit ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a senior Hamas leader in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, according to his son. No reason was provided for Al-Rajoub’s detention. The Hamas leader was released by Israeli forces in January after eight months in administrative detention. The policy of administrative det...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi judiciary has launched an investigation into leaked audios attributed to former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he attacked Iraqi politicians. Iraqi journalist Ali Fadel earlier published audios allegedly attributed to al-Maliki during a meeting in which he termed Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as “murderer” and “...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran, Türkiye and Russia have reiterated their commitment to work toward a political and diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis at the seventh summit of the guarantor states of the Astana Process on Syria in Tehran. In his remarks at the trilateral meeting and at the joint presser, Iran’s President Ebrahim [&h...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Six Iraqi policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack by the ISIS in northern Iraq, local media reported. ISIS attacked a federal police checkpoint near the city of Samarra, the local Alsumaria TV reported. Seven policemen were also injured in the attack. A statement by the Interior Ministry said a security delegation […...
