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Turkey-backed forces loot Syrian city after capturing it
Mar 19, 2018 10:30Turkey-led forces have reportedly gone on a rampage in Afrin, pillaging shops and homes after capturing the northern Syrian city on Sunday.
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YPG forces to shift from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics: Afrin official
Mar 19, 2018 06:00The administration of Syria's Kurdish-populated northwestern Afrin region has indicated that members of the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) militants will shift from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics in their battles against Turkish military forces and allied militants from the so-called Free Syrian Army.
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Large militant outfit in Syria’s Ghouta in talks with UN about ceasefire: Statement
Mar 19, 2018 04:04One of the main militant groups active in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta says it is negotiating with the United Nations about a ceasefire, as the government troops constantly shrink the militant-held areas of the flashpoint region.
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Syria's president visits troops in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus
Mar 18, 2018 12:54Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited army positions and talked to Syrian forces in Eastern Ghouta suburb of the capital Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reports.
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Russia: 20,000 residents left Syria's Ghouta Sunday
Mar 18, 2018 09:16Russia says more than 20,000 people left Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, using one of the four humanitarian corridors set up to enable safe passage out of the Syrian capital's suburb.
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Erdogan: Turkish troops capture center of Syria's Afrin
Mar 18, 2018 06:39President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish troops and their militant allies have entered the Syrian city of Afrin and taken control of its center after Kurdish militia pulled out.
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Turkish attacks kill over 20 civilians in Syria's Afrin
Mar 17, 2018 16:20Two separate Turkish attacks have claimed the lives of at least 22 civilians in Syria’s northwestern town of Afrin as Ankara presses ahead with its operation against US-backed Kurdish militants there.
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US training terrorists in Syria for false flag chemical attacks: Russian commander
Mar 17, 2018 16:20A high-ranking Russian military commander has warned that the United States is training foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists in the hope that they would launch false flag chemical attacks in southern Syria to provide a pretext for Washington to carry out airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.
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US, British, French forces directly involved in Syria war: Russia FM
Mar 17, 2018 10:13Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says US, British and French special forces are “directly” engaged in the war on Syria and operating on the ground in crisis-stricken country.
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Syria intercepts Ghouta-bound US, UK arms
Mar 17, 2018 05:30The Syrian army has intercepted a truckload of weapons, including American and British ones, heading to the terrorists holed up in Eastern Ghouta amid its operation to liberate the Damascus suburb.