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Russia deploys biggest EVER warship force to stop the US attack on Syria

Russia deploys biggest EVER warship force to stop the US attack on Syria

Russia has deployed its biggest ever warships force to the Mediterranean Sea to stop the US from launching a strike on Syria. Russian Navy chiefs have dispatched their biggest task force to the Mediterranean Sea since the start of Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict in September 2015. It includes at least ten warships and […]

August 28, 2018 | By | Reply More
In southern Syria, the US faces a Russia-Israel challenge

In southern Syria, the US faces a Russia-Israel challenge

Dynamics in the southern front in Syria have reached a tipping point. Russian-Israeli coordination is taking precedence over the ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached on the sidelines of the G20 summit last year. Iran and the United States are both facing increasing pressure in the area, while […]

June 21, 2018 | By | Reply More
Russia orders five-hour daily truce in Syria’s eastern Ghouta

Russia orders five-hour daily truce in Syria’s eastern Ghouta

Russia will establish a humanitarian corridor and implement a five-hour daily truce in Syria’s eastern Ghouta, it said on Monday, after a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across the entire country. Over the past week Syria’s army and its allies have subjected the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta near Damascus to one […]

February 26, 2018 | By | Reply More
Russia again vetoes bid to renew Syria gas attacks probe

Russia again vetoes bid to renew Syria gas attacks probe

Russia cast a second veto in as many days at the United Nations Security Council on Friday to block the renewal of a probe to identify the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A draft resolution put forward by Japan would have extended the UN-led Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) for 30 days to allow […]

November 18, 2017 | By | Reply More
Extreme cold and heavy snow kills 40 in Ukraine, Russia

Extreme cold and heavy snow kills 40 in Ukraine, Russia

Sub-zero temperatures across Ukraine have claimed 40 lives since late December, officials said Friday as the death toll from the cold snap hitting Europe keeps rising. Authorities said most of those who died of exposure were found in the streets, a total of 40 victims since December 30, with 11 of them confirmed dead in […]

January 13, 2017 | By | Reply More
Russia seeks ‘honest’ cooperation in Syria- Lavrov

Russia seeks ‘honest’ cooperation in Syria- Lavrov

Nov 01, – Russia seeks “honest cooperation” for a political solution in Syria — “the sooner the better,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday as Moscow declared a brief truce in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo. “We hope our partners will draw the necessary conclusions (so that) we will all aim for honest cooperation… for […]

November 2, 2016 | By | Reply More
Toll from strikes on Syria’s Idlib jumps to 58- monitor

Toll from strikes on Syria’s Idlib jumps to 58- monitor

Sep 11, – It was not immediately clear who carried out the raids, which hit a market and several neighbourhoods across the city. The death toll in air strikes on the key northwestern Syrian city of Idlib jumped to 58 late Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead […]

September 11, 2016 | By | Reply More
Russia raids on IS Syria bastion Raqa ‘kill 30’

Russia raids on IS Syria bastion Raqa ‘kill 30’

Aug 11, – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they were killed and dozens of people wounded when 10 Russian raids hit the city and its outskirts. Russian air strikes on the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa in northern Syria on Thursday killed at least 30 people, including 24 civilians, a monitoring group […]

August 11, 2016 | By | Reply More
Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Aug  07, –  The hospital, in the town of Meles, is about 15 km from Idlib city in rebel-held Idlib province. An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian government and allied Russian military planes operate in Syria but it […]

August 7, 2016 | By | Reply More
Raids on Syria displaced kill two children- monitor

Raids on Syria displaced kill two children- monitor

Aug 05, – “The probable Russian warplanes conducted eight raids in an area where two IDP camps” are located in Atareb, west of Aleppo city, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Two children were killed and dozens more wounded Thursday in air strikes on Syrian camps for the displaced probably […]

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