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Car bomb blast kills 9, injures dozens in Syria's Afrin
Oct 31, 2019 11:32A car bomb has exploded in Syria's northwest city of Afrin, leaving at least nine people dead and 30 others injured.
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Syria urges Kurdish-led SDF to join national army in face of Turkish aggression
Oct 31, 2019 10:32Syria has called on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to join the ranks of the national armed forces and help defend the country against the Turkish aggression.
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Syrian army troops engage in clashes with Turkish forces again
Oct 31, 2019 03:32Syrian troops have engaged in fierce clashes with Turkish military forces near Syria’s key border town of Ra’s al-Ayn in the northeastern province of Hasakah – a day after a similar incident claimed the lives of seven Syrian soldiers and left several others injured.
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‘Syria’s constitutional committee must work independently to win public support’
Oct 30, 2019 04:29Iran, Russia and Turkey have stressed that Syria’s long-awaited constitutional committee must work independently and far from any foreign interference in order to draw maximum support from all walks of the Syrian nation.
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Seven Syrian soldiers killed in clashes with Turkish forces, allies near Ra’s al-Ayn
Oct 29, 2019 17:51The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least seven Syrian army soldiers have been killed when fierce exchanges of gunfire broke out between government troops and Turkish military forces and their allied militants near Syria’s key northeastern border town of Ra's al-Ayn.
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Turkey says Kurdish militants still in Syria ‘safe zone’ as deadline looms
Oct 29, 2019 17:47Ankara says Kurdish militants of the so-called People’s Protection Units (YPG) have yet to fully pull out of border areas in Syria’s north as a deadline set by a recent Turkey-Russia deal for their withdrawal approaches.
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Syria welcomes pullout of Kurdish armed groups to depth of 30 km from Turkish border
Oct 27, 2019 15:36Damascus welcomes the withdrawal of Kurdish armed groups in Syria’s northwestern regions to a depth of 30 kilometers from the Turkish border as part of a Russia-Turkey deal, saying the pullout rids Ankara of the pretext to keep up its acts of aggression against the Arab country.
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Erdogan says Turkey will clear Kurdish militants alone if Sochi deal fails
Oct 26, 2019 13:28Turkey has vowed to “clear” Kurdish “terrorists” from the so-called safe zone single-handedly in its border area with northeastern Syria if they do not withdraw by the end of a deadline agreed with Russia this week, days after Ankara launched a cross-border offensive into the Arab country.
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Turkish aggression, US troops deployment violate UNSC resolutions: Syrian official
Oct 26, 2019 13:17Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad has strongly condemned Turkish military operations against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, saying the offensive is a violation of the United Nations Charter and Security Council resolutions.
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UN says Turkish offensive in north Syria displaced nearly 180,000 people
Oct 25, 2019 13:08The United Nations says Turkey’s now-suspended offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Syria has displaced about 180,000 people, including tens of thousands of children.