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Russian warplanes have goals of Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa bombarded with a series of cruise missiles. That the defense ministry in Moscow announced Friday.

In the last period of the battle for Aleppo, the Syrian army used chemical weapons in the parts of the city where the rebels then sat. Helicopters threw chlorine bombs in these neighborhoods where staying even civilians.

By a Russian airstrike in northern Syria, three Turkish soldiers were killed and eleven others injured. This was done according to Defence in Ankara by accident. The incident took place near al-Bab, the last stronghold of Islamic State in Aleppo province.

By bombing on Tuesday are certainly 26 people were killed by rebel-controlled city of Idlib in northwestern Syria, including ten civilians. Target was, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights headquarters of an al-Qaeda affiliated militia, Fatah al-Sham Front.

The Syrian government army has the last supply route from terrorist Islamic State to the town of al-Bab closed Monday. The largest IS stronghold in Aleppo province is now completely surrounded.

Turkish police in raids across the country picked up about four hundred people suspected to be their supporter of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Most arrests, 150 were in the Sanliurfa province on the Syrian border, but also picked up in the capital Ankara sixty alleged IS-trailers, Turkish media reported Sunday.

Lebanese security forces have prevented a major terrorist attack in the capital Beirut. They arrested Saturday night at a packed restaurant a man before he could ignite an explosive belt. ' A massacre 'was thereby prevented, said the Lebanese president Michel Aoun Sunday against the state news agency NNA.

The Syrian army has driven the group Islamic State with the help of allies from the village of Soran east of Aleppo. Soran is located 16 kilometers southwest of the city al-Bab, which opponents of President Bashar al-Assad with the support of the Turkish army IS try to conquer.

At a US airstrike Thursday on a camp of al-Qaeda in Syria, more than a hundred fighters slain. That made the US Department of Defense said Friday.

The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) has in the ancient ruined city of Palmyra in eastern Syria destroyed several ancient buildings. According to Syrian state television would be inflated more a part of the Roman theater.

At least forty members of the jihadi movement Fateh Jabhat al-Sham have been slain on the night of Thursday to Friday during an air raid in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Members of the terrorist group Islamic State have in the ancient city of Palmyra, at least a dozen prisoners were executed in eastern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Thursday.

Russia and Turkey have executed Wednesday for the first time air strikes in Syria. There bombings were carried out by al-Bab in Aleppo province. In total nine Russian and eight Turkish fighter aircraft in the mission, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Aid organizations of the United Nations on Monday called for access to children and families in Syria who are cut off from humanitarian aid. ' The world must not remain silent, '' also is not now the siege of the city of Aleppo past, stands in a statement.

In one of the first interviews as a prospective president with a European newspaper Donald Trump declares that the European Union is actually Germany. 'In principle, the EU, is an agent for the purpose of Germany. Therefore it was smart of the British to quit. '

Russia has begun scaling back its military presence in Syria. First are the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and its accompanying ships withdrawn. That the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, Friday told the news agency Tass.

Syrian warplanes have Observers Sunday resumed the bombing in an area controlled by rebel northwest of the capital Damascus. The Syrian planes no attacks had performed 24 hours as part of a file declared by Russia and Turkey.

'A year of severe trials,' as typified German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year in her New Year's message.

Not long after the cease-fire in Syria was discussed there been reports of fighting. A clash between rebels and Syrian government forces in and around the province of Hama causes within two hours after the ceasefire had begun it has been violated.

Turkey and Russia have agreed on the terms of a file, which must go rapidly in virtually across Syria. The Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday that the intention is that the weapons as to rest on 29 December.

The truce in and around Aleppo is over. The air strikes resumed in rebel territory outside the northern Syrian city, a day after the government army who had been completely under control thanks to its allies. That the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights announced Friday.

Thousands of rebels still waiting in eastern Aleppo on evacuation from the former rebel enclave. A spokesman for the rebel group Ahrar al Sham said Thursday that the evacuation is difficult because of the bad weather.

The army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the entire city of Aleppo controlled with the help of its allies. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights are also the last Wednesday rebels who long persisted in the eastern districts, evacuated.

A convoy of sixty buses standing in the freezing cold silence in the former rebel enclave of Aleppo in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Wednesday that people are in a number of buses there waiting since Tuesday they may leave Aleppo.

She was only seven years old, but became known worldwide by its twitter reports from eastern Aleppo. Now the Syrian Bana Alabed finally together with her parents and brothers escaped the misery in the wrecked city and arrived in Turkey. Turkish President Erdogan managed to pick up the family by helicopter.

The United Nations has received permission from the Syrian government to send more observers to eastern Aleppo. Since the twenty UN staff go the evacuation of the rebel enclave monitors, said a spokesman for the organization Tuesday.

The Syrian army pulls Tuesday within the last rebel enclave in Aleppo. Reported that the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, an ally of the Syrian government.

The US Embassy and consulates in Istanbul and Adana remain closed Tuesday after someone in the night of Monday to Tuesday fired shots at the embassy building in Ankara. No one was injured and the gunman was arrested.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation on the attack on the Russian Ambassador in Ankara. Both mention the shooting of Andrei Karlov in the Turkish capital a provocation to damage relations between the two countries.

So far Monday evacuated about 5,000 people with 75 buses from the Syrian city of Aleppo. Another 25 buses are ready to get more people from the city. That has reported the Red Cross.