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The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Syrians decry looming end to cross-border aid from Turkey

People in northwest Syria fear ‘death by starvation’ as UN authorisation of aid deliveries is set to expire on Monday.

Al Jazeera

Survivors: ‘Greek coastguard was next to us when boat capsized’

Two Syrian refugees recall their harrowing journey and pin blame on the coastguard for the devastating shipwreck.

Al Jazeera

UN urges Security Council to extend Turkey border crossing into northwest Syria for 1 year

The U.N. secretary general is hoping that the Security Council will vote later this month to keep a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for a period of one year instead of six months

The Independent UK

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Spanish police arrest 15 after long investigation into alleged people-smuggling gang

Operation allegedly involved moving people from Syria to Spain on a circuitous route via Sudan and north Africa

The Guardian - UK

Global chemical weapons watchdog says it found no evidence to back Syrian claim of 2017 gas attack

The global chemical weapons watchdog says it found no evidence to support a claim by Syria that its forces were attacked using toxic gas in 2017

The Independent UK

France repatriates 35 women and children from Syrian jihadist camps

Ten women and 25 children held prisoner in camps in north eastern Syria have been brought back to France in the fourth such repatriation of the families of jihadists.

Radio France Internationale

Jordan's foreign minister calls for investment into war-torn Syria to speed up refugee returns

Jordan’s foreign minister has called for investment into conflict-ravaged Syria’s crippled infrastructure to speed up refugee returns

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Israeli Fighter Jets Strike Syrian Anti-Aircraft Battery After Missile Explosion

No casualties reported as Israeli jets respond to missile detonation in southern Israel.

Zenger

Israel's air force attacks Syria and Syrian air defense missile explodes over northern Israel

Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement

The Independent UK

Khaled Khalifa: ‘All the places of my childhood are destroyed’

The award-winning Syrian novelist on Aleppo, the city of his ‘soul’, his fascination with the late 19th century, and his youthful introduction to Chekhov

The Guardian - UK

Israel Asked To Conduct Airstrikes Against ISIS, Al-Qaeda Continues To Pose Threats

Former IDF Chief reveals Egypt sought Israeli airstrikes against ISIS; Al-Qaeda and ISIS pose ongoing threats in Middle East

Zenger

Families of tens of thousands missing in Syria draw some hope from new UN push to find loved ones

The families of some of the tens of thousands of people missing in Syria are drawing some hope from a new U.N. push to find their loved ones

The Independent UK

He took one of the deadliest migrant routes, hoping to save his cancer-stricken son

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.

WEKU

UN to investigate fate of 130,000 people missing in Syria war

Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Cuba and Iran were among those voting against UN resolution.

Al Jazeera

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The Independent UK

UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90% of its population below the poverty line and millions face a 40% cut in emergency food aid in July because the $5.4 billion U.N. humanitarian appeal for Syria – the world’s largest – is only…

The Independent UK

UN votes to establish independent body to clarify fate of over 130,000 Syrians missing in conflict

The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution that will establish an independent body to determine what happened to more than 130,000 people missing as a result of the conflict in Syria

Daily Mirror

Islamic State leader 'killed in airstrike' as special forces bomb Iraq hideout

Specialists are carrying out tests on DNA samples from the remains of a terror suspect collected after a cave was bombed in the Hamrin Mountains in north east Iraq

Al Jazeera

What future awaits Russia’s Wagner army and its boss, Prigozhin?

Observers say Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘doomed’ after turning on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Iraqi police seize 250,000 Captagon pills at school building

Syria has pledged to fight drug smuggling in talks with Arab neighbours, but the stimulant keeps moving across region.

France 24

'It looks like the end of the world': Russia bombards rebel zones in Syria

Intense air strikes by Russia, an ally of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, have targeted the rebel-held Idlib region in northwestern Syria since June 20. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), air strikes on June 25 killed at least 13 people, including children, and one attack hit a…

Al Jazeera

‘How would you survive?’: Desperation grows in Iraq water crisis

Parched communities, once displaced by the ravages of ISIL, can barely survive the decimation of their water supplies.

The Independent UK

Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

A U.N. report says armed groups across Syria are recruiting children into their ranks in growing numbers, even as fighting is subsiding

The Guardian - UK

‘We fear leaving the house’: Lebanon and Turkey step up deportations of Syrian refugees

Countries that once welcomed Syrians fleeing the civil war are now forcing them to return as Assad is feted by the Arab world

The Conversation

How music therapy can help rebuild the lives of refugees

Over the past 20 years, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide due to conflict has reached a figure in excess of 90 million. This has more than doubled since the early 1990s, a time period labelled “the decade of displacement” by the United Nations Refugee Agency.…

Al Jazeera

Syrian survivors of enforced disappearance call on UN for justice

The UN General Assembly is to vote this week on setting up an independent institution on missing persons in Syria.

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