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US troops block Russian forces’ way to oil fields in northeastern Syria
Jan 22, 2020 13:21US military forces present in areas controlled by militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have reportedly stopped a Russian military convoy from reaching oil fields there.
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Russian, Syrian naval forces hold joint drills in eastern Mediterranean Sea
Jan 22, 2020 03:44Russian and Syrian naval forces have staged a joint exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with the aim of defending international maritime economic activity at the Sea.
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Turkish forces accommodate 1,500 militant families in Syrian houses in Ra’s al-Ayn: Report
Jan 20, 2020 11:38Turkish military forces have reportedly accommodated more than a thousand families of allied Takfiri militants in residential buildings in Syria’s Northeastern Province of al-Hasakah in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Russia repels drone attack on Hmeimim Base in Syria
Jan 20, 2020 09:12Russian air defenses have repelled a drone attack launched by unidentified militants on the strategic Hmeimim Airbase in Syria's Western Coastal Province of Latakia.
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Syria raises penalty on foreign currency use to seven years of hard labor
Jan 19, 2020 05:03President Bashar al-Assad has increased the punishment for transacting in foreign currencies to seven years of hard labor, as part of the government’s efforts to prop up the Arab country’s pound.
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Bomb attack kills ten in Turkish-controlled northern Syria town
Jan 17, 2020 05:00Nearly a dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful car bomb explosion ripped through a northern Syrian border town seized by Turkish military forces and their allied militants in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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US military dispatches over 70 trucks to oil-rich eastern Syria: Report
Jan 17, 2020 03:55The United States has reportedly dispatched dozens of truckloads of military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Syria’s Eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr and the Northeastern Province of Hasakah as Washington and some of its regional allies are vying with one another to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.
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Around 350,000 people have fled Syria's Idlib since Dec. 1: UN
Jan 16, 2020 14:45The United Nations says around 350,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have been displaced in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib since early December last year.
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Syrian Army confronts Israeli aggression on T4 Airbase in Homs
Jan 15, 2020 05:20The Syrian Army says it has intercepted and shot down several Israeli drones and missiles targeting a major military airport in the country’s Central Province of Homs.
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Rouhani: Regional nations should not rest until US troops leave
Jan 14, 2020 13:56President Hassan Rouhani has warned about US attempts to seize control of Syria’s oil wells, among its other interventionist policies in the region, urging regional nations to spare no effort to send the American military home.