MARSAWA, SYRIA (AP) — Turkey's prime minister said Saturday that Turkish troops have captured a strategic village in the Kurdish-held enclave in northwestern Syria, tightening its grip on Kurdish militia in the sixth week of its offensive on the area. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Sunday to continue with a military offensive in a rebel-held region near the capital, as troops and allied militias captured a number of villages and towns in the largest advance since a wide-scale operation began last month. Speaking to a small ...
Syrian troops and allied militia seized several villages in Eastern Ghouta over the weekend, in what appeared to be the start of a ground offensive to crush the besieged opposition stronghold. the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Earlier, the Syrian armed forces said they had ...
France’s foreign minister visited Iran on Monday on a delicate mission to reaffirm Europe’s support for a nuclear deal that opened Iran’s economy while echoing U.S. concern about Tehran’s missile programme and role in regional conflicts./ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shakes ...
France's foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Monday for meetings with the country's president and his Iranian counterpart, Iran's state TV reported, with talks likely to focus on Syria's years-long war and French criticism of Iran's ballistic missile program. Jean-Yves Le Drian's one-day trip ...
France’s foreign minister visited Iran on Monday on a delicate mission to affirm Europe’s support for a nuclear deal that opened Iran’s economy while echoing U.S. concern about Tehran’s missile programme and role in regional conflicts./ French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to put pressure on the Syrian government to end attacks against Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta region and allow humanitarian aid to flow. In a phone conversation on the eve of Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s ...
Intensive talks are under way ahead of Trump’s May 12 deadline/ French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is traveling to Tehran as part of a European drive to salvage the nuclear deal with Iran that President Donald Trump is threatening to scuttle and the Islamic Republic has said it may be ...
The White House has condemned the Syrian slaughter inside Eastern Ghouta, saying in a released on Sunday that the Syria, which was backed by the Iran and Russia, are killing “innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations.” Eastern Ghouta, an area held by the Syrian ...
France’s foreign minister was in Iran on Monday to reaffirm Europe’s commitment to a nuclear deal that opened the Iranian economy to investment, but also to echo concerns raised by U.S. President Donald Trump who has threatened to quit the agreement./ French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to put pressure on the Syrian government to end attacks against Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta region and allow humanitarian aid to flow./ French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a news conference during ...
The French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, has arrived in Iran to talk with the country's president Hassan Rouhani, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to Iranian state TV. Talks are ...
PARIS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged Iran to put "necessary pressure" on the Syrian government to halt military actions in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta. Macron made his remarks during a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani, ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to put pressure on the Syrian government to end attacks against Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta region and let humanitarian aid in. In a phone conversation on the eve of foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s trip ...
said on Monday that the only way to end the conflict in "There is no other way to resolve the Syrian crisis other than reinforcing the central government in Damascus," said Rouhani following a meeting with French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, according to the presidency's website. Iran ...
French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to put the "necessary pressure" on the Syrian government to halt "indiscriminate" attacks on civilians in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta./ During a telephone call between the two leaders, Macron ...
The Bibas children Kfir and Ariel were the youngest hostages taken to Gaza by Hamas/ Hamas says it will hand over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the Palestinian armed group. The group's negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said the bodies to be released ...
Villagers have been returning to areas vacated by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon/ Israeli forces have pulled out from towns and villages in southern Lebanon but remain in five locations along the border in what the Lebanese government describes as a violation of a ceasefire deal. Tuesday ...
Before being detained, the Foremans shared videos of their travels in Iran/ Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country's judiciary news agency has said. Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified ...
Rubio's visit resumes the warm relations the US and Saudi Arabia had in Trump's first term/ The choice by the Trump administration of Saudi Arabia as the location for key talks on Ukraine underscores how far the Kingdom has come diplomatically from the near pariah state it became after the ...
The collection includes Jackson Pollock's Mural On Indian Red Ground/ It has been dubbed one of the world's rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it. For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson ...
Zakaria is 11 and helps at one of the biggest hospitals in Gaza – al-Aqsa – under the mentorship of an experienced paramedic. As war raged across the strip, he could be found carrying wounded and traumatised victims into the emergency ward for treatment, wiping blood from his hands as he went ...
The US secretary of state met the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on Sunday/ Israel's prime minister has said he is working to make US President Donald Trump's plan to remove and resettle Gaza's population "a reality". Benjamin Netanyahu said he was cooperating with the US on a "common ...
After years of military expansion, everything Iran was trying to build in Syria is in ruins/ Mouldy half-finished food on bunk beds, discarded military uniforms and abandoned weapons - these are the remnants of an abrupt retreat from this base that once belonged to Iran and its affiliated groups ...
Celebrations in Israel as three more hostages released/ Hamas has released another three Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners following a week in which the fragile ceasefire deal appeared under threat. American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Argentinian-Israeli Yair ...
Before being detained, the Foremans shared videos of their travels in Iran/ The family of a British couple in custody in Iran say they are united in their determination to secure their safe return. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested in January, when state-run Iranian media reported they ...