Smoke rises in the background from bombardment around the area as fighters with the Free Syrian army drive their pick-up truck, left, past a Turkey Armed Forces convoy, at a highway between Maaret al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish Defense ...
A convoy of Turkish military vehicles passes through the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province on August 19, 2019/ A convoy of Turkish military vehicles passes through the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province on August 19, 2019 (AFP Photo/Omar HAJ KADOUR)/ Maaret al-Noman (Syria) (AFP) - A Turkish ...
ANKARA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Turkey will not move the military observation post in northwest Syria that a Turkish convoy was trying to reach when it came under attack during an offensive by the Syrian army, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. An air strike on the Turkish military ...
This photo provided by the activist-operated Thiqa News Agency, shows a Turkish military convoy heading toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition crossed into northern Syria Monday and moved south through ...
The Turkish convoy was heading towards Khan Sheikhoun - AFP/ Assad regime forces carried out an airstrike near a Turkish military convoy in northern Syria on Monday, in a rare example of Damascus directly confronting At least one pro-Turkey fighter was killed in the strike and several were ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Syria has condemned the convoy as an act of aggression and says it is heading for the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun Syria has condemned a Turkish convoy bound for a town in the rebel-held northern province of Idlib. Russian and Syrian ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ This 2015 photo shows Khan Sheikhoun, then under rebel control Syrian opposition forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of Khan Sheikhoun, deep in the last rebel-held province. Government forces, backed by Russia, closed in on the ...
Turkey has defied warnings from Russia, Iran and their local allies in Syria by seeking a deal with the United States and continuing to support insurgents as they clashed with government forces in the restive northwestern province of Idlib. A demilitarized zone deal struck nearly a year ago by ...
BEIRUT, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Syrian air strikes hit near a Turkish military convoy that approached frontlines in northwest Syria on Monday as government forces advanced on a rebel-held town, a monitor and a rebel source said. There was no immediate comment from Ankara, which backs some of the ...
Syrian regime forces have been battling to capture the jihadist-held town of Khan Sheikhun in the country's northwest as it lies on a key highway (AFP Photo/Omar HAJ KADOUR)/ Beirut (AFP) - Syrian regime forces entered a key northwestern town on Sunday amid intense fighting with jihadists and ...
12PM [Updated: Sun Aug 18, 2019 01:22PM ]/ The photo shows a view of Abedin village following a counterterrorism operation by Syrian government forces in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib on August 17, 2019. (Photo by SANA)/ Syrian government forces, backed by fighters from allied ...
backed militants have reportedly withdrawn from a key town in Syria’s embattled Idlib Province as well as their last bastion in the nearby province of Hama, as government forces make more gains in the northwest. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and local sources reported ...
02PM [Updated: Mon Aug 19, 2019 06:13PM ]/ Russia's President Vladimir Putin gestures during his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron [not shown] at the French president's summer retreat of the Bregancon fortress on the Mediterranean coast, near the village of Bormes-les-Mimosas, ...
20AM [Updated: Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:43AM ]/ A convoy of Turkish military vehicles passes through the town of Saraqib in the northwestern province of Idlib heading toward the town of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of the province on August 19, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Damascus says a ...
The Syrian Army forces have entered the key town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province for the first time since 2014 after heavy clashes with terrorists and anti-government militants, a UK-based war monitor said. The Syrian troops "entered the town of Khan Shaykhun for the first since they lost ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...