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Russia prevents Israeli airstrikes in Syrian capital: Russian media
Sep 21, 2019 04:26Russia has reportedly once again managed to prevent Israeli airstrikes in Syria, helping the Syrian armed forces to destroy an Israeli drone on its way to attack the war-wracked country’s capital Damascus.
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Damascus: Some UNSC permanent members politicize humanitarian situation in Syria
Sep 20, 2019 02:20Syria says some permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council continue to abuse the body’s mechanisms to politicize the humanitarian situation in the Arab country.
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Turkey continues to arm terrorist groups in Idlib, evades Sochi commitments: Syrian UN envoy
Sep 17, 2019 08:57Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Hussam Eddin Ala, says Turkey has been providing various types of munitions to foreign-sponsored terrorist groups operating in the country’s militant-held northwestern province of Idlib, and reneging on its commitments under the Sochi agreement.
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Nusra terrorists continue preventing civilians from leaving Idlib
Sep 16, 2019 15:13The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, has for the fourth consecutive day prevented citizens from leaving via the Abu al-Duhur corridor in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria’s state-run media outlet says.
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Syrian president issues new amnesty reducing punishment for crimes
Sep 16, 2019 04:49Syrian President Bashar Assad has issued a decree granting amnesty and commuting sentences for all crimes committed before Sept. 14 this year, a move which could see thousands of prisoners released across the conflict-torn Arab country.
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Car bomb blast in militant-held Syrian town kills 11 civilians
Sep 16, 2019 01:48A car bomb has struck the Al-Rai town near the Turkish border in northern Syria, killing at least 11 civilians in the militant-held region, an observatory group said.
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Thousands of people return to hometowns in northwestern Syria
Sep 15, 2019 10:17Thousands of Syrians have returned to their hometowns in the country’s northwest after government forces purged the areas of foreign-backed Takfiris.
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Iran president due in Ankara for trilateral summit on Syria
Sep 14, 2019 02:00President Hassan Rouhani will attend a trilateral meeting in Ankara with Vladimir Putin of Russia and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in order to discuss a political resolution to the Syria crisis.
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US preparing to send 150 troops to join border patrol in northeast Syria: Report
Sep 13, 2019 08:19The Pentagon is preparing to send about 150 troops to northeastern Syria to conduct ground patrols with Turkish military forces in a so-called safe zone, the New York Times reports.
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War in Syria has come to end, long-lasting settlement of crisis needed: Russian FM
Sep 13, 2019 02:04Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he believes the foreign-sponsored terrorism in Syria has come to an end, and that the need to promote the long-lasting settlement of crisis both in the war-ravaged Arab country and the entire West Asia region is highly required.