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Lebanon complains to UN Security Council against Israel over violating airspace
Apr 03, 2020 01:57Lebanon has lodged a complaint to the United Nation against the Tel Aviv regime for violating the country's airspace after Israeli military aircraft carried out airstrikes on multiple targets in Syria’s Central Province of Homs.
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Turkish forces, militants shell Syria’s Hasakah; two civilians killed
Apr 03, 2020 00:48At least two people have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when Turkish military forces and allied militants launched barrages of mortar shells at residential neighborhoods in the western sector of Syria’s Northeastern Province of al-Hasakah.
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Syrian UN envoy calls for removing of all US economic sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 03, 2020 00:41Syria’s Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Ja’afari has reiterated a call by his country for immediate and unconditional lifting of all US economic sanctions, a few days after the coronavirus killed the first patient in the Arab country.
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Syrian air defenses intercept Israeli missiles over Homs: SANA
Apr 01, 2020 07:58The Syrian army says the country’s air defenses in the central province of Homs have intercepted a number of missiles fired by Israeli warplanes.
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With a quarter of the world’s population under US sanctions, countries appeal to UN to intervene
Apr 01, 2020 03:38The governments of China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela – all under sanctions from the United States – sent a joint statement to the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Director-General of the World Health Organization calling for an end to the unilateral American economic blockade, as they are, “illegal and blatantly violate international law and the charter of the United Nations.”
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Curfewed Syrians cheer for health care workers fighting Coronavirus
Apr 01, 2020 02:36Syrians cheered and whistled from inside their homes as darkness fell on Tuesday night (March 31) in support of the country's health care workers fighting against the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Syria UN envoy calls for lifting of sanctions amid COVID-19 outbreak
Mar 31, 2020 09:35Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari has called upon the international community to work on lifting illegal economic sanctions and coercive measures imposed on his war-ravaged country and other states as the world is battling to rein in a deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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China to UN: Unilateral Syria sanctions must be lifted amid pandemic
Mar 31, 2020 09:26China has called for the complete and immediate lifting of unilateral sanctions against Syria, saying the “coercive measures” will hamper the war-ravaged country’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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US inhuman sanctions harming efforts to combat virus pandemic: Syria
Mar 31, 2020 00:50Syria has blasted “inhuman sanctions” imposed by the United States against a number of countries, raising the alarm that the restrictive measures are hampering global efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
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Syria confirms first COVID-19 death as health system reels from sanctions, war
Mar 30, 2020 01:58Syria’s Health Ministry has confirmed its first death resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic as the country’s fragile health system reels from years of foreign-backed war and sanctions.