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  • Turkey targets Kurdish forces south of Syria's Jarablus

    Turkish jets and artillery have targeted Kurdish forces south of the strategic town of Jarablus, according to a monitor and local sources, as Turkey continues a major military offensive inside northern Syria. Turkey first sent tanks across the border on Wednesday as part of a two-pronged operation against ISIL fighters, as well as Kurdish-led forces. The.. More

  • Barrel bombs hit dozens attending Aleppo funeral

    At least 24 funeral mourners have been killed and 30 others wounded in a barrel bomb attack in an opposition-held area of Aleppo, according to activists, taking the death toll of civilians in the northern Syrian city in recent days to more than 60. The Syrian civil defense, a volunteer rescue group also known as the White Helmets, told Al Jazeera.. More

  • Syria: Turkish-backed opposition 'seize' Jarablus from ISIL

    Turkish tanks and hundreds of opposition forces thrust deep inside Syrian territory on Wednesday in a lightning operation that within hours pushed ISIL fighters out of a key Syrian bordertown. The air and ground offensive - the most ambitious launched by Ankara in the Syria war - made rapid progress towards Jarablus throughout the day, as opposition.. More

  • Italy earthquake: Rescuers race to find survivors

    The death toll from a devastating earthquake that hit and flattened central Italian towns has soared to more than 240 as rescuers desperately searched through the night for survivors under the ruins of collapsed buildings. With 368 people injured, some critically, and an unknown number still trapped in mountains of rubble on Thursday morning, the toll.. More

  • Turkey strikes ISIL targets in Jarablus

    Turkish fighter jets have struck ISIL targets in the Syrian border town of Jarablus, according to Turkish news media. Turkey's CNN Turk television said the operation involved artillery and rocket shelling as well as warplanes. It also said Turkish ground forces were waiting for a possible ground operation at the border. Security sources quoted by.. More

  • Aleppo: Civilians victims of 'shelling 24 hours a day'

    The humanitarian situation has gravely deteriorated in Syria's northern city of Aleppo where Syrian regime forces and Russian warplanes continue to attack civilian neighborhoods, according to activists and residents. "In the last four days, food supplies have close to disappeared from the markets, and prices have skyrocketed," Salem al-Atrash,.. More

  • Regime, Russian airstrikes kill 14 in Syria’s Aleppo

    At least 14 people were killed and 26 others injured Monday in airstrikes carried out by Bashar al-Assad regime and Russian warplanes in northwestern Syria’s Aleppo province, according to a pro-opposition civil defense source on the ground. Ibrahim Abu Leys told Anadolu Agency that the regime and Russian warplanes struck a marketplace in the.. More

  • Turkish military strikes YPG and ISIL targets in Syria

    Turkey has launched separate artillery strikes on Kurdish and ISIL positions in northern Syria. The Turkish army shelled on Monday ISIL targets near the border town of Jarablus, as well as Kurdish YPG positions north of the nearby city of Manbij. The YPG targets were hit 20 times, while the cross-border attack on ISIL was still ongoing, a Turkish.. More

  • Calls for truce to get aid into Aleppo

    The UN special envoy to Syria has called for a truce again around the city of Aleppo as activists report more deaths in fighting around the country. Activists said 33 people were killed in fighting in Aleppo on Saturday when air strikes targeted the city's southern edges and intense battles raged, the AFP news agency reported. More than 300 civilians.. More

  • Brother of Syrian boy pictured in Aleppo dies of his wounds

    The older brother of a Syrian boy whose image, dazed and bloodied after an air strike, shocked people around the world, has died in Aleppo from wounds sustained in the same incident, a war monitor, a local council official and a witness said. Ali Daqneesh, 10, was wounded in Wednesday's air strike, according to U.K.-based monitoring group the Syrian.. More

  • Dozens dead in attack on wedding in Turkey's Gaziantep

    At least 30 people have been killed and 94 more wounded in an explosion at a wedding ceremony in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border. The blast, which occurred at around 11pm local time on Saturday in the Akdere neighborhood of Sahin Bey district, was a "terror attack", according to Ali Yerlikaya, the governor.. More

  • Turkey: Six killed in bomb blasts near police stations

    Turkish officials say at least six people have been killed and scores wounded when two car bombs exploded in the eastern part of the country. A large explosion rocked an area near a police station in the eastern Turkish town of Elazig and three police officers were killed, Turkish media reported, hours after a car bomb killed three people elsewhere.. More

  • Russia defends using Iran base for Syria air raids

    Russia has said its use of an Iranian airbase to carry out bombing missions in Syria does not violate a UN resolution that forbids supplying fighter jets to Tehran. "There has been no supply, sale or transfer of combat jets to Iran," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday in comments reported by the Russian state news agency.. More

  • Russia bombs Syria from Iran base for first time

    Russian jets based in Iran on Tuesday struck targets inside Syria, the Russian defense ministry said, after Moscow deployed aircraft to an Iranian air force base to widen its campaign in Syria. The ministry said the strikes, by Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers, were launched from the Hamadan airbase in western Iran. It.. More

  • Palestinian ex-prisoner dies after Israeli 'neglect'

    A former Palestinian prisoner, who developed muscular dystrophy while carrying out his sentence in Israeli jails, has died from the condition three years after he was released. Rights groups say his death was the result of Israeli medical negligence in prison. Naim Shawamreh, 46, died while hospitalized on Tuesday at the al-Ahli medical Centre in.. More