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The Pentagon has revealed additional injuries in recent attacks on US outposts in northern Syria Six American soldiers suffered “traumatic brain injury” following two attacks on US bases in Syria, the Pentagon has said, blaming the strikes on “Iranian-backed groups.” Washington has warned Tehran that it would respond “forcefully” to …

Israel has carried out fresh missile attacks on the Syrian capital Damascus, as the occupying regime continues its acts of aggression against the country. Syria’s official SANA news agency, citing a military source, reported that several Israeli missiles targeted areas near Damascus from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights …

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the country against resistance groups, saying the raids are a cover-up for Washington’s ferocious attempts to further plunder energy resources there. Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates …

ISIS killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in central Syria by cutting their throats, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday. Syria’s desert truffles fetch high prices in a country battered by 12 years of war and a crushing economic crisis. Since February, at least 150 …

A military base housing US forces in eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under a rocket attack hours after the Pentagon carried out multiple airstrikes against Syrian troops. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network, citing local sources, reported that ‏the rockets landed in the vicinity of a US-controlled al-Omar oil …

Syria has strongly denounced as “theatrical” an international conference in Brussels to purportedly raise funds for the victims of last month’s devastating earthquake, stating that the United States and its Western allies would instead lift sanctions on the crisis-hit country than organize such sham events. “Any improvement in the living …

Washington is still ordering Islamists to attack Assad’s forces, Moscow’s spy chief has claimed The US is still working with Islamic State terrorists and other Islamist groups to carry out attacks against Bashar Assad’s government forces in Syria, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief, Sergey Naryshkin, has claimed. According to …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived Sunday in the United Arab Emirates, his second visit to the Gulf since a devastating earthquake last month prompted Arab outreach to his government. The trip — Assad’s second to the UAE in as many years — comes after a visit to Oman last month, …

A meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria, scheduled for this week, has been postponed to an unspecified date, a source from the Turkish foreign ministry said on Thursday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week that the deputy foreign ministers of the four …

An Israeli air strike knocked Aleppo airport out of service on Tuesday and forced the Syrian authorities to reroute flights carrying aid for people affected by last month’s earthquake, Syrian state media reported. The Israeli military declined to comment. In the second attack on Aleppo airport in six months, Syrian …

Syria’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the unannounced visit of the top US military officer to a US base in northeast Syria as “illegal” and a “flagrant violation” of the country’s sovereignty, state news agency SANA reported. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the …

Syrian foreign minister has denounced the politicization of humanitarian response to the devastating earthquake that struck the country recently, saying it failed to prick the conscience of some countries who pretend to advocate human rights. Faisal Mekdad made the remarks in a video speech to the 52nd session of the …

Media on Thursday morning reported an explosion in the suburbs of Syria’s Deir ez-Zur city which left 45 people killed and injured. The incident occurred due to the explosion of a mine left by ISIS terrorists in the path of a truck carrying Syrian citizens. 5 people were killed and …

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited opposition-held northwestern Syria on Wednesday, his first trip to areas outside Damascus’s control since a devastating quake last month, an AFP correspondent reported. Tedros was the highest-ranking United Nations official to visit the opposition-held zones since the February 6 quake. He entered …

The first week of March will be “extremely critical,” Frank Hoogerbeets says Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets, who rose to international prominence after predicting the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last month, has said that the world could be hit with another major quake in the coming days. Hoogerbeets, who …

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that struck on Feb. 6 surpassed 50,000 on Friday after Turkey declared more than 44,000 people died, Reuters reported. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the death toll in Turkey due to earthquakes rose to 44,218 on Friday …

Iranian and Syrian military officials have reportedly agreed on the delivery of missile systems to Damascus to boost the country’s air defenses amid increased Israeli air raids. In a report on Thursday night, IRIB News said Iran and Syria have reached an agreement for the delivery of equipment related to …

Turkey has begun initial work to rebuild homes following this month’s devastating earthquakes, a government official said on Friday, as a U.N. Development Program (UNDP) estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless. More than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed or were severely damaged in the Feb. 6 earthquakes …

Turkey has launched a temporary wage support scheme and banned layoffs in 10 cities on Wednesday to protect workers and businesses from the financial impact of the massive earthquakes that hit the south of the country earlier this month. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 6 killed more than 47,000 …

The Syrian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned an Israeli air strike on Damascus that killed at least five people and heavily damaged residential buildings, calling for “urgent international action” to stop the Israeli regime’s aggression. Syria’s official news agency SANA cited the country’s Foreign Ministry as making the call in …