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Air strikes hit aid trucks near Aleppo, kill 12- monitor

Air strikes hit aid trucks near Aleppo, kill 12- monitor

Sep 20, – The Syrian army could not immediately be reached for comment about the attack in a rebel-held area west of Aleppo near the town of Urm al-Kubra. Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed aid trucks near Aleppo late on Monday after a week-long ceasefire ended, killing 12 people, including Red Crescent workers, the Syrian […]

September 20, 2016 | By | Reply More
Palestinian tries to stab Israel soldier, shot dead- army

Palestinian tries to stab Israel soldier, shot dead- army

Sep 20, – “An assailant armed with a knife attempted to stab an IDF (Israel Defence Force) soldier at a checkpoint at the entrance to (the village of) Bani Naim,” a statement said. A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier near the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday before being shot dead, […]

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Truce teeters after raids on Aleppo, Syria troops

Truce teeters after raids on Aleppo, Syria troops

Sep 19, – Syria’s ceasefire appeared on the brink of collapse on Monday after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first air raids in nearly a week. The barrage of strikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Sunday risks reigniting battlefronts in the city and […]

September 19, 2016 | By | Reply More
Dozens dead in US-led coalition strike on Syrian army position

Dozens dead in US-led coalition strike on Syrian army position

Sep 18, – “Warplanes from the American coalition hit one of the Syrian army’s positions… near the Deir Ezzor airport,” the statement carried by state media said. US-led coalition aircraft hit a Syrian army position in the country’s east on Saturday, an armed forces statement said, while a monitor group reported dozens of soldiers dead. […]

September 18, 2016 | By | Reply More
Fourth attack on Israelis in 24 hours

Fourth attack on Israelis in 24 hours

Sep 17, – A military statement said the attacker drew a knife during a routine security check in Hebron’s Tel Rumeida neighbourhood, wounding the soldier. A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead, the army said, in the such fourth attack in under 24 […]

September 17, 2016 | By | Reply More
Rebel says Aleppo due to get aid Friday, but has little hope it will

Rebel says Aleppo due to get aid Friday, but has little hope it will

Sep 15, – “Today the withdrawal is supposed to happen, with aid entering tomorrow. This is what is supposed to happen, but there is nothing to give hope,” Zakaria Malahifji, of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim, told Reuters. Humanitarian aid is due to be delivered to Aleppo on Friday following a withdrawal of combatants from […]

September 15, 2016 | By | Reply More
15 fighters killed in southwest Yemen- military sources

15 fighters killed in southwest Yemen- military sources

Sep 14, – Loyalist forces attacked rebel positions in Kirsh area in Lahj province, killing seven insurgents, said General Fadhl Hasan, who is leading pro-government troops in the area. At least 12 rebels and three pro-government fighters were killed in fierce battles in southwestern Yemen on Wednesday, military sources said. “We will continue our advance […]

September 14, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syrian army says it shot down Israeli warplane, drone

Syrian army says it shot down Israeli warplane, drone

Sep 14, – “Our air defences blocked the attack and shot down the military aircraft in (the southern province of) Quneitra and a drone” in the province of Damascus, said the Syrian army statement carried by state news agency SANA. Syria’s military said Tuesday it shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone in response […]

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Syria truce brings ‘significant drop’ in fighting

Syria truce brings ‘significant drop’ in fighting

Sep 14, – The truce brokered by Russia and the United States began at sundown on Monday, in the latest bid to end a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people since March 2011. The UN’s Syria envoy applauded a “significant drop” in violence through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but […]

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Israel targets Syrian positions after bomb lands in Golan- army

Israel targets Syrian positions after bomb lands in Golan- army

Sep 13, – The Israeli strike targeted “artillery positions of Syrian Regime in the central Syrian Golan Heights” in response to “a projectile” which on Monday had hit the northern Golan causing no injuries, an army statement said. Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions early Tuesday after stray fire from its war-torn neighbour hit the […]

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