Syria

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Syria’s return to Arab League has some lessons for Kyiv’s Zelenskyy

Assad’s arrival in Jeddah was no tepid entry.

05 Jun 2023 12:17 AM

Rescuers search for victims and survivors amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast on February 7, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Turkish lesson: Ignoring building codes perilous

If buildings in an earthquake-prone area are constructed to withstand the shaking, then the people inside are much safer

16 Feb 2023 12:12 AM

China reached the one billion milestone in 1980, while India got there in 1997. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | China’s people crisis and lessons India must learn

China has hit an impenetrable economic wall. The People’s Republic now has a people crisis — it has now stopped growing and is getting old

07 Feb 2023 12:00 AM

Saeed Naqvi | Syria is still in the eye of the storm even after 10 years

The free run the US and regional allies like Saudi Arabia had to alter the ground realities in Syria ended when the Russians arrived in 2015

09 Apr 2021 4:26 AM

A general view shows al-Zahraa neighbourhood of Aleppo destroyed following years of conflict in Syria. (AFP)

UN rejects Russia's bid to reduce delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria

The resolution needed a minimum of nine 'yes' votes in the 15-member council, but it got support from China, Vietnam and South Africa only

09 Jul 2020 10:55 AM

US President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the governments in Moscow, Damascus and Tehran to stop the violence in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib. (Photo: File)

'Don't do it!': Trump calls for end to killing in Syria rebel bastion

Trump on Thursday praised Turkey's efforts, tweeting that Ankara 'is working hard to stop this carnage.'

26 Dec 2019 8:29 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them. (Photo: File)

Iran planning attacks on Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu

Speaking on Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Netanyahu said: 'we are taking necessary actions to prevent Iran from entrenching in our region.'

25 Nov 2019 9:20 AM

A US-born woman who says she regrets having joined the Islamic State group has appealed again to come home from the refugee camp where she lives with her small son in Syria. (Representational Image)

US-born IS bride appeals again to come home from Syria

The government is refusing to let Hoda Muthana return to the US, arguing that she is not an American citizen.

10 Nov 2019 11:53 AM

The Islamic State group's spokesman was killed Sunday in northern Syria, a top Kurdish official said, hours after the jihadists' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was announced dead. (Representational Image)

Hours after Baghdadi's death, ISIS spokesman killed in fresh North Syria raid

IS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir had been killed, after SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said he had been 'targeted' in a fresh raid.

28 Oct 2019 11:28 AM

The death of ISIS leader and world's most wanted terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an American air raid in northwest Syria is a major victory in the enduring mission to defeat the dreaded terror group, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has said. (Photo: File)

Baghdadi's death major victory in mission of defeating ISIS: US Defense Secy

ISIS has a worldwide network that will continue to seek to attack us, our allies and our interests.

28 Oct 2019 9:16 AM

Xinhua quoted the World Food Programme (WFP), a food-assistance branch of UN as saying that it has so far provided food assistance to 8,850 newly-arrived Syrian refugees. (Photo: ANI)

'Number of Syrian refugees crossing into Iraq from Syria has increased': UN

Turkey had launched the offensive on Oct 9 after US announced withdrawal of its troops from northern Syria.

26 Oct 2019 12:42 PM

President Donald Trump ended sanctions against Turkey on Wednesday, drawing a line under American involvement in “blood-stained” Syria, as Turkish and Russian troops seized territory previously held by US troops and their beleaguered Kurdish allies. (Photo: File)

Donald Trump lifts Turkey sanctions, quits ‘blood-stained’ Syria

Trump called the ceasefire, which allowed the Turkish takeover to proceed largely unopposed, a 'major breakthrough'.

24 Oct 2019 8:35 AM

Turkish soldier killed in Syrian Kurd attack: defence ministry

Turkey and Kurdish forces accused one another for violating the ceasefire agreement.

20 Oct 2019 4:44 PM

President Donald Trump has said that America's proposed economic sanctions on Ankara are no longer necessary after the US and Turkey struck a deal for a five-day cease fire in Syria. (Photo: File)

Sanctions on Turkey no longer necessary: Trump

Terming it as an incredible outcome, Trump said that Turkey had a legitimate problem on the 22 mile (34 kms) strip for many years.

18 Oct 2019 11:42 AM

President Donald Trump took extraordinary measures against a country that is officially a US ally as he faces mounting criticism at home, where even usually supportive lawmakers accuse him of abandoning Kurds who had spearheaded the fight against the ISIS group. (Photo: File)

US sanctions Turkey, Trump says ready to ‘swiftly destroy’ its economy

Vice President Mike Pence said he would travel to Turkey and that Trump had telephoned Erdogan to insist that Turkey end the operation.

15 Oct 2019 9:40 AM

Trump said he will be issuing the executive order authorising imposition of sanctions against current and former officials of Turkey and those contributing to destabilising Syria. (Photo: File)

‘I’m prepared to destroy its economy’: Trump orders sanctions on Turkey

Trump noted that since his first day, administration has worked tirelessly to preserve the safety and security of the US and its citizens.

15 Oct 2019 9:31 AM

This comes even as the Kurdish administration in northern Syria announced a deal with the Damascus government on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey to confront Ankara's offensive. (Representational Image)

US leaves 'high-value' ISIS detainees behind in Syria: report

Citing two American officials, newspaper reported that detainees could not be taken out before Pentagon decided to move its forces out.

14 Oct 2019 9:16 AM

IS families escape Syria camp as Turkey battles Kurds

Fighting raged along the border of an offensive that has provoked an international outcry and left dozens of civilians and fighters dead.

13 Oct 2019 6:52 PM

Thousands of people, some shouting “Erdogan terrorist”, took to the streets of Paris and other European cities on Saturday in protest at the Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria. (Photo: AFP)

Thousands in Europe march against Turkey’s Syria offensive

About 5,000 people marched to the Swedish parliament in Stockholm.

13 Oct 2019 1:49 PM

However, Trump and other Western allies have heavily criticised this week’s offensive by Turkey, since they had used the YPG as the key frontline force in the battle against the Islamic State group in recent years. (Photo: File)

'Turkey won’t stop Syria operation despite threats,' says Recep Tayyip Erdogan

'Whatever some may say, we will not stop this step that we have taken,' Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.

12 Oct 2019 11:44 AM

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