ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said the implementation of a roadmap for withdrawal of Kurdish terrorists from the northern Syrian city of Manbij is expected to begin after his meeting with U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo. He said while addressing at an Iftar arranged by the ...

Amnesty International has accused the US-led coalition of endangering lives of civilians during its attacks against Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa last year. In a report, the human rights group said during its campaign to recapture the Islamic State headquarters in Syria, the coalition ...

The United Nations has called for a ceasefire in Syrian city of Ghauta where nearly four hundred thousand people need humanitarian assistance. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian crisis Panos Moumtzis said that civilians in the besieged eastern Gauta are in dire need of food and medical ...

In Syria, forty-four people were killed and dozens injured in two suicide bomb attacks in capital Damascus today.According to agency reports the attackers targeted buses transporting pilgrims to Bab al-Saghir cemetery in the old city.

UNITED NATIONS: (APP) With Russia backing, the United Nations Security Council on Monday decided to immediately deploy UN observers in Aleppo to monitor evacuations and report on the fate of civilians who remain in the besieged Syrian city.The 15-member Council did so by unanimously adopting a ...

ANKARA: (APP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday in a phone call that violations of a ceasefire deal agreed for the Syrian city of Aleppo should stop, Turkish presidential sources said."In the phone call, they stressed that the ...

MOSCOW: (APP) Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday that it had sent an S-300 missile system to its naval facility in the Syrian city of Tartus, a measure it says is meant to bolster its security."The S-300 anti-aircraft missile system has indeed been sent to the Syrian Arab Republic," defence ...