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Strikes hit Syria's battered Ghouta as death toll hits 800
Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 805 civilians -- including at least 178 children -- have been killed since Russia-backed regime forces launched an ...
Syria regime captures half of Ghouta enclave as death toll climbs
Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)
The blistering onslaught has prompted international outrage, including accusations by the United Nations that the government was orchestrating an "apocalypse". ...
UN chief calls for access for further aid convoys in Syria
Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)
Guterres urged all warring sides to allow aid trucks to return Thursday to the main town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta to complete the delivery of humanitarian sup...
Syria's Eastern Ghouta: two weeks under attack
Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)
As the regime was reported to have retaken a third of the enclave Monday, a UN convoy entered in the first aid delivery since the start of the devastating assau...
Turkey strikes kill 19 civilians in Syria's Afrin: monitor
Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)
The deadly air raids hit the town of Jandairis near the Turkish border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said. They come six we...
Some SDF forces quit anti-IS ops to fight Turks: Pentagon
Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)
The Syrian Democratic Alliance, made up mainly of Kurds as well as Syrian Arabs, is the main ground force that the US has been training and supporting to battle...
Turkish air strikes kill 36 pro-regime fighters in Syria's Afrin: monitor
Mar 03, 2018 (AFP)
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces alliance said the Turkish raids targeted pro-regime positions, but gave no death toll. The two-storey building where th...
Open heart surgery for Colombian FARC leader Londono
Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)
Londono, 59, suffered a heart attack on Thursday at the end of his daily exercise routine and was rushed to the Clinica Shaio in Bogota for treatment, medical o...
UN hopes to enter Syria's Eastern Ghouta in 'next few days'
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
"We may now be able to go to Eastern Ghouta in the next few days," said Jan Egeland, head of the UN's humanitarian taskforce for Syria. He told reporters in Gen...
Colombia FARC leader 'stable' after heart attack
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
"The diagnosis for the patient was a heart attack. His condition is stable and he is fully conscious," said doctor Andrey Rojas of the medical center in the tow...
Four UN troops killed in central Mali mine blast
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
Jihadists have ramped up their activities in central Mali in recent months, targeting domestic and foreign forces in violence once confined to the restive north...
Children killed, wounded in Yemen air strike: UN
Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)
A Saudi-led military coalition allied with Yemen's government is the only party known to conduct air raids over areas controlled by Yemen's Huthi rebels. The Un...
FARC ex-rebel leader sounds 'SOS' on Colombia peace deal
Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)
Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono, the leader of the political party launched by the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), said he feels "betrayed" b...
Fresh violence mars first day of Syria enclave 'truce'
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
Nine days after Russian-backed regime forces intensified their campaign against the rebel-held enclave, the deal offered some respite to civilians who had been ...
Pummeled civilians in Syria enclave await Russia's first daily truce
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
More than 550 civilians, almost a quarter of them children, have been killed in the last week after Syrian government forces launched a renewed offensive on the...
Polish Holocaust rescuers urge dialogue with Israel amid row
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The call was made in an open letter signed by 50 Poles honoured as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for risking their ...
Russia vetoes Western bid at UN to pressure Iran over Yemen
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
Britain had sought to include in the measure renewing sanctions on Yemen an expression of "particular concern" from the Security Council over a UN report that f...
Strikes on east Syria's last IS pocket kill 25 civilians
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The strikes were conducted on Sunday on and around the village of Al-Shaafah, north of the former IS bastion of Albu Kamal near the border with Iraq, the Syrian...
Syria's Ghouta reels from strikes, clashes despite ceasefire call
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
More than 500 people have been killed in a major bombing campaign by President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has hammered the enclave on the edge of Damascus fo...
UN backs Syria ceasefire as death toll in rebel enclave tops 500
Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)
With support from Russia, the Security Council adopted a resolution on the ceasefire to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations, but the m...
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