More than 50 people were killed in Sweida Province in Syria yesterday during a second day of clashes between Bedouin groups and militias from the Druse religious minority, according to a local official and a monitoring group. The Syrian government called for restraint and vowed to “quickly and decisively” resolve the …
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ISRAEL has carried out further strikes in Syria despite repeated warnings from the Syrian government, reports said on Saturday. Earlier, Israel carried out a second airstrike after the initial one near the presidential palace in Damascus that Syria’s de facto leader called a “dangerous escalation.” The Syrian leadership has said …
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ISLAMIST-led rebels declared that they have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on Sunday, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. Residents in the Syrian capital were seen cheering in the streets of Damascus, as the rebel factions heralded the departure of “tyrant” …
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SEVERAL people were killed in a suspected Israeli attack near Aleppo in north-western Syria, state media reported early Monday, citing a military source. The area around Aleppo was targeted by airstrikes overnight, it said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that missiles had hit the positions of a …
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An attack in eastern Syria killed 10 oil field workers, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against jihadists. In addition to the nearly dozen dead, “two others have been wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted three buses transporting workers …
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Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group who was killed in a US raid, a senior Turkish official said Tuesday. “Turkey has captured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sister” in a raid near the town of Azaz, the official, …
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A Ghanaian man residing in New Jersey, Rubbin Sarpong, is behind bars after United States authorities say he scammed 30 women of over $2.1m by posing as a “sweet message sending” soldier online. Rubbin Sarpong, a 35-year-old Ghanaian citizen with US residency, was recently arrested for swindling women on sites …
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An Islamic State group spokesman called on Tuesday for countries attacking it to be targeted, in an audio recording in which he also insulted US President Donald Trump. The recording posted on jihadist sites online was Abulhassan al-Muhajer’s first since December. Since then, IS has been under sustained assault …
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The United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield has disclosed that about 100,000 Nigerians were currently living outside as refugees in neighbouring countries. This came on a day the Head of European Union delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr Michel Arrion, also said there were more Nigerian …
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