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By Kasim Ileri and Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): US special forces deployed to Iraq have captured a key Daesh operative, unnamed officials told American media. The Pentagon declined to comment on the capture operation that was first reported by New York Times and CNN. “As the Secretary said on Monday, the ETF [expeditionary targeting […]

2nd Mar 2016

UN postpones Syrian peace talks

ANKARA (AA) – The UN announced Tuesday the postponement of Syrian peace talks between the government and opposition members by two days. Talks will now start March 9 to allow “adequate time to address logistical and practical matters” the UN’s envoy on Syria said Tuesday. Staffan de Mistura said he was looking forward to “Syrian […]

1st Mar 2016

Iraq: Suicide bomber kills 40 in Diyala

DIYALA, (AA): At least 40 people were killed Monday by a suicide bombing in eastern Iraq, according to local security sources. According to initial estimates, the attack — which targeted a funeral being held at a mosque in the town of Muqdadiyah in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province — also left at least 58 people injured, […]

29th Feb 2016

Iraq: Twin bombings kill 70 injure 100 in Baghdad

By Ibrahim Salih BAGHDAD (AA) – At least 70 people were killed and another 100 injured by twin bombings that rocked Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday afternoon. The first bomb tore through a marketplace in eastern Baghdad’s predominantly-Shia Sadr City district, police officer Salman al-Jabri told Anadolu Agency. Police sources said the suicide bombers […]

28th Feb 2016

Afghanistan: Twin suicide blasts in Kabul kill 23

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): At least nine people were killed and another 13 wounded on Saturday when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the Afghan Defense Ministry, Afghan authorities have said. The Taliban militant group claimed responsibility for the bombing, asserting that at least 23 officers had been […]

27th Feb 2016

Syria: US Special Forces help rebels capturing Shadadi

WASHINGTON (AA) — U.S. Special Forces in Syria have helped a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rebel group move into the northeastern town of Shadadi held by Daesh, a U.S. coalition spokesman said Friday. “We have advisers with the SDF as we have had a small group of advisers inside Syria that are connected to the […]

27th Feb 2016

UN council votes unanimously to put Syria truce into action

NEW YORK (AA) — The UN Security Council on Friday endorsed a plan to halt fighting in Syria, less than an hour before the deal was set to take effect. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-nation body demanded the “cessation of hostilities” brokered by the U.S. and Russia to begin as planned at 00:00 […]

24th Feb 2016

Syria: 5 years on, fighting rages on multiple fronts

ALEPPO, (AA): Syria’s multi-front civil war, now in its fifth year, is now seeing fierce clashes between Russia-backed regime forces, armed opposition groups, the Daesh terrorist group and the PYD, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate. Clashes are currently taking place in the northwestern Aleppo province; the northwestern Idlib and Latakia provinces; the west-central Homs […]

23rd Feb 2016

Iraq: Five, including police chief, killed in Daesh attacks

By Suleiman al-Qubaisi & Mustafa Saadi BAGHDAD (AA): Five people, including a police chief, were killed in a series of attacks by Daesh terrorists in Iraq on Monday. Daesh terrorists launched two offensives in eastern and western Ramadi, but the attacks were repelled by army forces, military officer Walid al-Duleimi told Anadolu Agency. “Three […]

22nd Feb 2016

Syria: Daesh kill 140 civilians in Homs & Baghdad

By Mohamed Misto HOMS, (AA): At least 140 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday by twin car bombs that shook Syria’s central city of Homs and capital Baghdad according to local sources. Daesh has claimed responsibity for both bombings. At least four blasts struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zaynab, killing […]

21st Feb 2016

Yemen: Al-Qa’ida captures coastal town in S Yemen

By Shukri Hussein ADEN, (AA): Al-Qaeda terrorists on Saturday morning wrested control of Ahwar, a coastal town in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, according to local witnesses. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, one Ahwar resident said that Al-Qaeda elements had “deployed at the town’s entrances and in the streets, while posting fighters on the rooftops of […]

19th Feb 2016

US, Russia map no-go zones in Syria

WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S. and Russia have outlined certain areas in Syria to help ensure the safety of military assets of both countries, a U.S. general said Thursday. “There are some areas we have talked to them about and that’s really where we have some of our coalition forces, particularly as you look around […]

19th Feb 2016

Hamas concludes ‘successful’ visit to Iran

By Ola Attalah GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Palestinian group Hamas said Thursday that it has concluded a “successful” visit to Iran. In a statement, Hamas said a delegation led by group member Osama Hemdan had concluded an eight-day visit to Iran on Wednesday. “The visit saw a number of successful and positive meetings with […]

19th Feb 2016

US refuses to confirm YPG behind Ankara attack

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S on Thursday would neither confirm nor deny that terrorist group YPG’s responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Ankara a day earlier. “I’m not going to speak to specific evidence that others may be looking at or be talking about while, as far as we […]

18th Feb 2016

Turkey: 28 killed, 61 wounded following Ankara bomb attack

ANKARA (AA): At least 28 people were killed in an explosion targeting military-owned vehicles on Wednesday evening. At least 30 of the 61 people wounded in Wednesday’s deadly bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara have been discharged from hospital. The Turkish General Staff issued a statement early on Thursday saying that the remaining 31 […]

16th Feb 2016

Iran says ‘no military solution in Syria’

BRUSSELS (AA) – Iran has urged world powers to stop “believing in the illusion” that there is a military solution to the conflict in Syria. Speaking after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Monday, Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif said: “We believe there has to be general recognition by […]

16th Feb 2016

Syria: Russian warplanes hit two hospitals, killing 14

By Mohamed Misto IDLIB, (AA): At least 14 people were killed on Monday when Russian warplanes struck two hospitals in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, according to a local source. One of the airstrikes, which struck a hospital funded by Geneva-based medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), killed 11 people and injured 25, a […]

15th Feb 2016

Syria: Russian airstrikes set to continue

By Selen Temizer ANKARA (AA) – Ongoing Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to be hindering a political solution to the conflict despite last week’s meeting in Munich of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), to which Moscow and Washington both sent representatives. Moscow had called for postponing planned ‘cessation of hostilities’ to March 1 […]

14th Feb 2016

Turkey: Saudi warplanes arrive in Turkey’s Incirlik base

RIYADH (AA) – Saudi military jets have arrived in Turkey’s Incirlik air base in southern Adana province to carry out missions against Daesh, a Saudi military spokesman said late Saturday. Brigadier Ahmed al-Assiri told Al Arabiya television network that the aircraft will be used in joint operations against Daesh in Syria. He did not give […]

12th Feb 2016

Germany: World powers call for ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Syria

By Ayhan Simsek with additional reporting by Michael Hernandez in Washington MUNICH (AA) — World and regional powers agreed Thursday to take steps toward halting the fighting in Syria with the goal of achieving a durable “cease-fire” in the near future. “We have agreed to implement a nationwide cessation of hostilities to begin in […]

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