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US controlling all oil fields, plundering crude in northeast Syria: Ambassador
Mar 13, 2020 03:28The Syrian ambassador to Russia, Riyad Haddad, says the United States controls all oil fields in the northeastern part of his country, as Washington and some of its regional allies are vying with each other to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.
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OPCW has to change course, show neutrality, independence: Syrian envoy
Mar 12, 2020 13:35A high-ranking Syrian official has criticized the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), saying the intergovernmental body’s technical secretariat has to change its course and demonstrate impartiality, independence and objectivity in order to build up trust in its reports.
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Turkey says its forces will remain in Syria’s Idlib despite truce
Mar 12, 2020 09:48Turkey says its military personnel will stay in Idlib Province despite a ceasefire deal with Russia, and that any withdrawal from the embattled Syrian region is “out of the question.”
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Warplanes hit Syrian-Iraqi border area, kill 18 Iraqi forces
Mar 12, 2020 03:49Warplanes have struck an area in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, killing at least 18 members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), hours after a rocket attack against US-led coalition forces in Iraq reportedly left three members of the coalition dead.
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Syrian army discovers one of Nusra leader’s hideout in Aleppo: SANA
Mar 10, 2020 04:46The Syrian army has discovered one of the hideouts of the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, on the outskirts of the country’s northwestern city of Aleppo.
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Syrian army, residents block US military convoy, force it to retreat in Hasakah
Mar 08, 2020 12:58A US military convoy has been forced to retreat from an area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah after government forces blocked its way and groups of angry local residents, upset with its presence in the region, throw stones at the US convoy.
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Syria reopens Damascus-Aleppo highway to traffic
Mar 08, 2020 09:33Syrian has reopened a strategic highway connecting the capital city of Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo after troops purged the area of Daesh and other foreign-backed terrorists.
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Road crash in Syria kills 22, including Iraqi pilgrims
Mar 08, 2020 04:07At least 22 people have died after a fuel tanker crashed into two buses and several other vehicles on a road connecting the Syrian capital to Homs province, state media reported.
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Mainland Greece to temporarily house 'migrants from Turkey'
Mar 08, 2020 04:02Greece says it is to set up two makeshift camps on its mainland to house the migrants that Turkey reportedly allowed into Europe to evoke a response from the continent.
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Turkey dispatches over 4,500 allied Takfiri militants from Syria to Libya: SOHR
Mar 08, 2020 03:45The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says Turkey has so far sent more than 4,500 allied Takfiri militants from Syria to Turkey, after the Turkish parliament passed a bill earlier this year that will allow the government to deploy forces to the North African country to intervene in the ongoing war.