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The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) has claimed responsibility for the Tuesday attack on the police bus in Istanbul that killed 11 people and hinted that there will be more attacks. TAK said in a statement that it was a “sacrifice Read more
Syria’s economy and foreign trade minister Humam al-Jazaeri has lamented about the “surprising” and “regrettable” Lebanese decision to stop the importation of the country’s produce but Beirut claims that the move is in the interest of local Lebanese farms. The Read more
President Bashar al-Assad addressed the Syrian parliament on Tuesday vowing that the war against terrorism will be carried on until it is uprooted and that they will liberate every inch” of the country like they have done in Palmrya. He Read more
Basma Kodmani, a delegate of the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC) composed of Syrian opposition groups, said Coordinator Riad Hijab of the HNC has addressed a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for a truce during Ramadan. Read more
The European Council extended EU restrictive measures against the Syrian regime until 1 June 2017. The decision, made last Friday, falls in line with the Council conclusions of December 2014, which affirmed that the EU would continue imposing and enforcing Read more
Chief Negotiator Mohammed Alloush of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC,) a Syrian opposition coalition, twitted on Sunday that he was resigning. “The three rounds of talks (with President Assad’s government) were unsuccessful because of the stubbornness of the regime and Read more
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the UN Security Council in a closed-door video conference on Thursday on the situation in Syria and a statement from his office said Syrian peace talks will resume before August 1, Read more
As part of celebrations marking Liberation and Resistance Day, Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah accused Arab States of “inaction” against Israel. He claimed that the Jewish State is Lebanon’s “main and real enemy” and continues to be its “biggest Read more
State-run Turkish news agency, Anadolu, reported that Turkish shelling and US-led coalition military airstrikes have killed more than 27 Islamic state militants in Syria as they were about to fire rockets into Turkey from northern Aleppo. The airstrikes were reportedly Read more
A statement from Hezbollah confirmed the death of its top military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, in an explosion in Syria and hailed him as “great jihadi leader.” The group said investigations are ongoing and it could only establish that he was Read more