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UN Officials: Syria Facing `Acute Violence’ and Worst Economic Crisis

Syria is facing “acute violence,” the worst economic crisis since the war began in 2011, and a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak with more that 24,000 suspected cases reported throughout the country and at least 80 deaths, UN officials said Tuesday. UN special envoy Geir Pedersen told the UN Security Council…

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Turkish Forces, HTS Launch Joint Patrols in Afrin

The Turkish forces redeployed in Jindires in Afrin and al-Bab city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, within the areas of operations Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield. The areas are under Turkish control along with the factions of the so-called Syrian National Army loyal to Ankara. The Syrian Observatory for…

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HTS Takes Over Afrin in Syria’s Northern Aleppo

Violent confrontations and bloody clashes continued on Thursday for the fourth day in a row between the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army factions and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which allied with the Hamza Division and Sultan Suleiman Shah Division and took control of Afrin city and a number of surrounding villages…

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Teens Journey from Bombs and Bullets to the Glare of a World Cup

When Hazem Attar fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago, he could not have imagined his brutal journey would lead him to a World Cup football match. Then aged just 10, Attar told of how seven members of his family packed into a bus to escape the…

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Insecurity Fuels Protests in Syria’s Turkish Areas of Influence

Raging protests and demonstrations erupted in Syria’s al-Bab city on Monday amid security chaos and near-daily assassinations taking place in areas of influence controlled by Türkiye and Ankara loyalists from opposition factions in northwestern Syria.

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Russia Could Repeat Syria’s Ghouta, Aleppo Scenarios in Ukraine

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of the UK and NATO chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) forces, warned that strategic nuclear weapons can change the planet as we know it. Russia and the West, including the US, UK, and France, have nearly 6,000 warheads between them. If launched, these…

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Children Return to Bombed-Out School in Syria Frontline Town

In a frontline town divided by regime and opposition forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity. Girls carrying pink backpacks play alongside boys with blue ones in the courtyard of their school…

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Syria Cholera Death Toll Rises to 29

A cholera outbreak in several regions of Syria has killed 29 people, the Syrian health ministry said on Monday in what the UN has called the worst outbreak in the war-torn country for years. Rapid assessment testing confirmed 338 cases since the outbreak was first recorded last month, with the…

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Türkiye Will Not Withdraw Forces from Syria

There is no plan for the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syria’s Idlib governorate and Aleppo countryside, a Turkish military source told a meeting of opposition factions in northwestern Syria. According to the source, Turkish forces present in those areas are “purely combative” and are deployed in compliance with an…

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HTS-Backed Gov’t Issues IDs for Civilians Under its Rule

The Syrian Salvation Government (SSG), the civilian arm of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which controls Idlib and parts of the governorates of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia in northwestern Syria, has begun accepting applications for photo identity cards from citizens living under its rule. Issuing the personal IDs is viewed as…

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UN warns of ‘serious threat’ from Syria cholera outbreak

The UN says outbreak connected to ‘severe water shortages’ caused by drought, destruction of infrastructure.

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With Help from Hezbollah, Syrian Officers Arrested for ‘Collaborating with Israel’

The Syrian air and military intelligence kicked off a wide wave of arrests against regime officers in Damascus and Aleppo on charges of “collaborating with hostile parties”, revealed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The crackdown was launched in early September. Sources said dozens of the detained were held on…

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Syria's Aleppo Airport Reopens after Israeli Strikes

Syria's Aleppo airport reopened on Friday, with the first civilian flight landing in more than 72 hours, after repairs following an Israeli airstrike earlier this week. Damage to the main runway in Tuesday's raid had put the airport -- the country's second-largest -- out of service, but the transport ministry…

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Syrian Airport to Resume Work Days after Israeli Strike

Syria's international airport in Aleppo is to resume business on Friday after the facility was put out of commission by an Israeli missile attack, the country's transport ministry said. The ministry said in a statement carried by state media that the damage has been fixed and called on airline companies…

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Israeli Official: Attack on Aleppo Airport a ‘Message to Assad’

Chairman of the Israeli Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Ram Ben-Barak said on Wednesday that airstrikes on Aleppo International Airport had been a signal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli airstrikes have killed at least three people and damaged the airport in northern Syria, according to the Syrian…

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Report: Building Collapses in North Syria, Killing 11 People

A building collapsed in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, including three children, the Syrian state television reported. The TV said the illegally built, five-story building in Aleppo’s southern neighborhood of Fardous collapsed in the evening. It said seven women, three children and an…

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Syria: 10 killed in Aleppo building crash

The bodies of six women, three children, and a man were found under the rubble of the collapsed building in the al-Fardous neighborhood. Read more on Dynamite News

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Report: Building collapses in north Syria, killing 11 people

Syrian state TV says a building has collapsed in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 11 people, including three children

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New Israel Strikes Put Aleppo Airport Out of Service

Israeli strikes hit Syria's Aleppo airport on Tuesday evening, damaging the runway and putting the facility out of service, the official SANA news agency said. It is the second reported Israeli strike on the airport in northern Syria in less than a week. "At around 8:16 pm (1716 GMT), the…

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Second Israeli attack in a week damages Aleppo airport: Syria

An Israeli missile attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport has damaged the runway and taken it out of service, SANA reported.

Reuters

Israeli air attack damages Syria's Aleppo airport, takes it out of service

An Israeli air attack on Syria's Aleppo airport on Tuesday has damaged the runway and taken the airport out of service, the Syrian defence ministry said.

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Satellite Image: Israel Attack Damaged Syrian Airport Runway

An Israeli attack targeting a Syrian airport tore a hole in the runway and also damaged a nearby piece of tarmac and structure on the military side of the airfield, satellite photos analyzed Friday by The Associated Press showed. The attack Wednesday night on Aleppo International Airport comes as an…

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Syrian FM Says Israel 'Playing with Fire'

Syria's foreign minister said on Thursday that Israel was "playing with fire" following Israeli strikes near Damascus and on Aleppo's international airport the previous evening. The strikes resulted in material damage only, according to state news agency SANA, which said Syria's air defenses shot down a number of Israeli missiles…

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Syrian FM says Israel 'playing with fire' after overnight strikes

Syria's foreign minister said on Thursday that Israel was "playing with fire" following Israeli strikes near Damascus and on Aleppo's international airport the previous evening.

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Israeli Missiles Target Aleppo Airport, Damascus Countryside

Four Israeli missiles targeted a runway at Aleppo airport and warehouses in its vicinity, causing fire and explosions, likely due to the outbreak of a batch of Iranian missiles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted a military source as saying that…

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