BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): U.S. President Donald Trump the past week has spoken of pulling out of Syria "very soon." But American forces have been setting up new front-line positions outside the strategic northern town of Manbij, west of the Euphrates ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ The leaders of three major players in Syria -- Russia, Iran and Turkey -- ended a summit Wednesday with a commitment to achieving a "lasting ceasefire" in Syria, even as the future role of US forces in the ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Russia's Vladimir Putin have strengthened ties in recent years despite some strains over Syria (AFP Photo/ADEM ALTAN)/ Ankara (AFP) - Turkey and Russia have bolstered cooperation since the 2015 downing of a Russian jet caused a ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attend a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for Turkey's first nuclear power station at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on April 3, 2018 (AFP Photo/ADEM ALTAN)/ Ankara (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara Wednesday for a second trilateral summit, part of ongoing efforts to end the Syrian civil war. Iran, Russia and Turkey, the main backers of the opposing sides in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held their first trilateral meeting on Syria in Sochi last November (AFP Photo/Mikhail KLIMENTYEV)/ Ankara (AFP) - Iran, Russia and Turkey have teamed up to forge a strong if brittle ...
Vladimir Putin (L) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have forged an increasingly close alliance, as tensions with the West grow (AFP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin)/ Ankara (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday arrived for a visit to Russia's increasingly close partner Turkey aimed ...
The leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey have promised to increase efforts to end unrest in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Ankara on Wednesday. A joint statement by the three countries said they wanted to ...
Turkey, Iran and Russia pledged on Wednesday to accelerate efforts to bring stability to Syria, underlining their joint commitment to the country a day after President Donald Trump raised the prospect of withdrawing U.S. troops. A statement by the three countries after a summit meeting of their ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lock hands during a group photo in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. (Tolga Bozoglu/Pool Photo via AP)/ The leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey met Wednesday for ...
Turkey, Iran and Russia pledged on Wednesday to accelerate efforts to bring stability to Syria, underlining their joint commitment to the country a day after President Donald Trump raised the prospect of withdrawing U.S. troops./ A statement by the three countries after a summit meeting in the ...
Following a summit in Ankara, the presidents of Iran, Turkey, and Russia have expressed determination to "speed up their efforts to ensure calm on the ground" in Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Hassan Rohani of Iran agree that the conflict can be ...
The US President's remarks about wanting to bring troops home from Syria may have complicated talks on how events should play out in the war-torn state/ Three is company. But if the trilateral dialogue format in international diplomacy seldom produces concrete results, that is because it cannot ...
The leaders of Turkey, Iran and Russia said on Wednesday it was important to prepare the ground for the return of Syrians displaced by conflict in their country, Iranian state television reported. It also quoted a statement issued at the summit of the three presidents in Ankara as saying they ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held talks in Ankara on Wednesday with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a three-way summit with Russia on the Syrian conflict./ The three countries are working together to try to reduce the violence in Syria despite supporting opposing sides in the ...
The leaders of Turkey, Iran and Russia said on Wednesday they were determined to speed up efforts to ensure “calm on the ground” in Syria, and to protect civilians in “de-escalation areas”, according to a joint statement. The statement was posted on the website of Iranian President Hassan ...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told the leaders of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday that the Syrian region of Afrin, captured by Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies, should be handed over to Syria’s army, Iranian television said. “The developments in Afrin can only be useful if they do ...
It's a meeting to chart a future for Syria, featuring the major players involved in the country's brutal seven years of war. Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rohani on April 4 in Ankara for the highest-level ...
The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey started talks on the Syrian conflict in Ankara on Wednesday. Erdogan, is a follow-up to the previous summit by the leaders of the three countries on November 22 in Sochi, Russia. President Hassan Rouhani of Iran flew to Ankara for the summit on Tuesday. ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosts his counterparts from Russia and Iran Wednesday for a second trilateral summit on Syria. The three, whose countries have a significant military presence in Syria, are increasingly cooperating to resolve the civil war under the auspices of the ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attacked the United States and Israel for their roles in Syria before he boarded a plane for Turkey where he was scheduled to meet President Tayyip Erdogan and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a meeting ...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria’s civil war - Iran, Russia and Turkey - will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground./ Syrian and Russian soldiers are seen at a checkpoint near ...
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has warned of the consequences of the presence of unwanted foreign forces in Syria, insisting on Iran’s long-held policy that the Syrian crisis cannot be resolved militarily. “Intervention of foreign forces who entered Syria without permission has added to the ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for resolving Syrian crises through diplomatic talks. “Syrian issue must be resolved through a political solution and by the people of this country,” Zarif told reporters upon his arrival in Turkey to discuss Syrian crises. “Firstly, It is ...
The UN peacekeeping agency in southern Lebanon has said four of its soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack on one of its bases. The Italian soldiers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) base in Shama, south-west Lebanon, ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
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 ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
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. ...