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US withdrawal would hand northeastern Syria to Turks
Dec 24, 2018 17:31The Trump administration is set to rapidly withdraw US military forces from northeastern Syria, where it has occupied around 30 percent of Syrian territory since mid-2016.
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US continues to violate UN resolutions on Syria: Lavrov
Dec 24, 2018 15:51Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denounced as “illegitimate” the military presence of American troops in Syria, stressing that the US continues to violate the main resolutions of the UN Security Council on the war-torn Arab country despite a troop withdrawal announcement.
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More than 1,000 displaced Syrians return home from neighboring Lebanon
Dec 24, 2018 15:50More than 1,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from various areas in neighboring Lebanon after Syrian government forces and allied fighters from popular defense groups managed to liberate their home towns from the clutches of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorist groups.
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Assad aide in Egypt as world warms up to Damascus
Dec 24, 2018 06:06A senior adviser to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has visited Egypt at the invitation of the Egyptian intelligence chief amid efforts by world countries to embrace the Arab country.
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UN adopts resolution in favor of Syria’s sovereignty over occupied Golan Heights
Dec 24, 2018 02:41The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution on the permanent sovereignty of Syria over natural resources of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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Syria: Army finds US arms, Israeli medicine in terrorist depots in Quneitra
Dec 23, 2018 15:19Syrian government forces have carried out a string of clean-up operations in the country’s southwestern province of Quneitra near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, discovering a substantial amount of US-built munitions and Israeli-made medicine from a former stronghold of foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists.
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Washington backlash over Syria troop withdrawal
Dec 23, 2018 06:47The announcement by US President Donald Trump of his decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria—followed by reports that he has ordered a partial withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan—has unleashed a major crisis within the administration and its relations with the military.
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Turkey deploys military reinforcements to Kurdish-held northern Syria
Dec 23, 2018 05:01Turkey has dispatched military reinforcements to northern Syria, which is held by US-backed Kurdish militants, as American troops prepare to leave the Arab country.
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Militant weapons cache with US munitions uncovered in Syria’s Dara’a
Dec 22, 2018 17:29Syrian government forces have discovered US-made weapons as well as a considerable amount of Israeli-made medicine and medical supplies from a position of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists in the country's southwestern province of Dara'a.
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Iran: US troops ‘wrong from start, source of tension’
Dec 22, 2018 08:52Iran says the US military presence in the region has been "wrong and a source of tension” after President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.