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Syria announces arrests over Damascus church attack
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed those involved in the "heinous" attack would face justice.
At least 20 killed in suicide attack on Damascus church
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» DAMASCUS - At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus, authorities said, with Syria's interior ministry blaming a member of the Islamic State group.
US diplomats meet with Syria's new ruler
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» DAMASCUS - US diplomats met with Syria's new ruler on Friday, an official told AFP, as outside powers seek assurances the country's Islamist-led authorities will be moderate and inclusive.
Turkey ready to offer military training to Syria if new govt requests
Published on 15/12/2024
» ANKARA - The new administration in Syria should be given a chance to govern following their constructive messages, and Turkey stands ready to provide military training if such help is requested, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said.
Scepticism over Macron idea of anti-IS 'coalition' to fight Hamas
AFP, Published on 25/10/2023
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron evoked an international coalition along the lines of the one that defeated Islamic State (IS) extremists in Iraq and Syria to fight Palestinian militant group Hamas but such an idea will struggle to even get off the ground, experts say.
Israel vows Hamas's destruction after deadly assault
AFP, Published on 12/10/2023
» JERUSALEM - Israel vowed to completely destroy Islamist group Hamas on the eve of United Statesa Secretary of State Antony Blinken's expected visit Thursday as Washington underscores support for the Jewish state in a war that has seen the death toll spiral into the thousands.
Two repatriated IS wives jailed on arrival back in Spain
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» MADRID - A Madrid court ordered two Spanish women who married Islamic State (IS) fighters remanded in custody Wednesday on terror-related charges after they were flown back from Syrian detention camps with 13 children, legal documents showed.
Tensions at Turkey funerals of Kurds killed in Paris
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» MUS (TURKEY) - Security forces fired teargas and rubber bullets in eastern Turkey on Thursday outside the funeral of a Kurdish singer killed in Paris in December, an AFP correspondent said, as fellow victims were laid to rest elsewhere.
Stand with Türkiye against terror
Oped, Published on 15/07/2022
» On the evening of July 15, 2016, the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (Feto) launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and the government of my country. Their aim was to establish a radical, fundamentalist regime, loyal only to their ringleader Fetullah Gülen.
IS attacks Syria prison, freeing jihadists: monitor
AFP, Published on 21/01/2022
» BEIRUT - The Islamic State group attacked a Kurdish-run jail in northeast Syria on Thursday, freeing fellow jihadists, a war monitor reported without specifying how many escaped.