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Aid convoys stuck in no-man's land on Turkish-Syrian border
Sep 14, 2016 12:03Two aid convoys destined for Syria's embattled northwestern city of Aleppo have crossed the Turkish border but are stuck in no-man's land pending a recent ceasefire to hold across the country.
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Nationwide truce agreed by US, Russia takes effect in Syria
Sep 12, 2016 14:55The Syrian army says a nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia has taken effect across the war-ravaged Arab country.
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Turkey's military operations in Syria will continue: Army chief
Sep 12, 2016 11:10Turkey’s top military commander says an ongoing offensive in northern Syrian will continue until southern borders are secured and Turkish forces mop "all terrorists" out of the region.
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Blood-stained politics: Chaos in and out of Syria
Sep 12, 2016 03:54It’s been reported that in 2014 a total of 600 thousand refugees applied for asylum in the EU, which constitutes a total of 0.1% of the European population. In 2015, those petitions were signed by a total of 1.294 million people, which means that the number of those seeking refugee has doubled in just a year, while the number of unprocessed applications for asylum in Germany alone exceeded half a million forms, as noted by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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EU, Turkey back US-Russia Syria deal while opposition cautiously welcomes truce
Sep 10, 2016 12:27European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has welcomed a US-Russia deal on a nationwide truce in war-torn Syria, calling on the United Nations to prepare proposals for political transition talks in the Arab country.
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Kerry meeting with Russian counterpart to discuss Syria
Sep 09, 2016 04:43US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Geneva for high-level talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to try to arrange a ceasefire in Syria.
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Russia, Turkey presidents see eye to eye on Aleppo ceasefire
Sep 09, 2016 01:49Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have agreed in a phone call on the urgent need for the establishment of a ceasefire in Syria’s violence-plagued northwestern city of Aleppo.
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Terrorist commander slain in northwestern Syria
Sep 09, 2016 01:41A high-ranking commander of the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra Front, has been killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo.
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Syria ready to cooperate with UN watchdog on gas attack allegations
Sep 09, 2016 01:34Syria has strongly dismissed allegations that government forces used poisonous gas against a terrorist-held area in the strategic northwestern city of Aleppo, stating that the Damascus government is ready to cooperate with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) over the claims.
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Syrian forces, allies retake key district of Aleppo from militants
Sep 08, 2016 11:14Syrian army forces and allied fighters have regained control of a key district in Aleppo as efforts continue to purge the flashpoint northern city of Takfiri terrorists.