UN envoy urges Syria truce
geneva May 2, 2016 17:35The UN special envoy to Syria on Monday an urgent appeal made by the United States and Russia to seek a cease-fire in Syria fighting in many areas to save his now resurfaced.
The UN special envoy to Syria on Monday an urgent appeal made by the United States and Russia to seek a cease-fire in Syria fighting in many areas to save his now resurfaced.
The truce that the warring parties in Syria Friday for Damascus and its environs have agreed extended by two days. Reported that the Syrian army. The so-called peace regime ended Sunday night.
The Turkish army with artillery and unmanned military aircraft disposals of Islamic State in Syria bombarded. The shelling cost 34 IS fighters life, says the armed forces.
In response to land loss, the caliphate of Islamic State (IS) this year raised the number of attacks in Iraq and Syria. Says a report released Sunday by the American IHS Jane's Terrorism and Rebellion Centre (JTIC).
US Secretary of State John Kerry hopes he can book the next few days in Geneva progress in talks on a new cease-fire in Syria. He said Sunday in the Swiss town he hopes negotiations can resume a peace process.
The Royal Air Force has over the past year and a half nearly a thousand fighters of the Islamic State (IS) slain in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. According to figures from the British Ministry of Defence after an official information request by media company Vice were released, according to the BBC Saturday.
The new truce that Russia and the United States have agreed in Syria endures. Which has declared the Russian Defense Ministry Saturday.
Russia and the United States have a regime of silence,, '' Syria agreed Friday to take effect at midnight. The news agency RIA Novosti reported on the authority of a diplomatic source.
The bloody raid on a hospital in the Syrian Al-Quds was carried out by the Syrian Air Force. Which has declared the US State Department Thursday. There were no cases soldiers of the coalition led by the US are involved, according to the department.
Police in Italy have arrested four people who want to join are suspected to have them in terrorist organization Islamic State. Three of them wanted to commit attacks, according to the authorities in Rome. The Israeli Embassy and the Vatican were potential targets.
Lebanese armed forces have slain Thursday in a mountainous region on the border with Syria, a leader of Islamic State. That's what the Lebanese national news agency NNA reported and a source in the security services.
The truce between some of the warring parties in Syria cracks. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura warned in the night between Wednesday and Thursday that the cease-fire,, is in great danger. ',, The picture is that it may collapse any time, '' the diplomat said. He called on the United States and Russia to quickly intervene at the highest level to save the talks between the Syrian government and part of the opposition.
The number of foreign fighters to join Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has fallen sharply over the past year to about two hundred per month. That's compared to a drastic drop from a year earlier, when between 1500 and 2000 foreign fighters joined the terrorist group. That said the deputy commander of the coalition led by the US against the terror group Tuesday.
The humanitarian situation in the besieged Syrian city daraya,, is extremely dire '' for the 4,000 remaining inhabitants, the UN said Tuesday after a reconnaissance mission last week. The town southwest of the capital Damascus is occupied by rebels and surrounded by government forces.
The brothers Salah and Brahim Abdeslam could escape the attention of the police had to do with a lack of manpower. According to an interim report of the Committee P on the investigation into the attacks in Paris which the Belgian newspaper Le Soir quoted Tuesday. has a series of failures led to their file disappeared into a drawer.
The Turkish journalist Can Dündar was sentenced by the court in Istanbul to be converted 9000 euro fine for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son Bilal and several ministers. That has let the lawyer know Dündar Monday.
Turkey has a rocket launcher of terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) destroyed in Syria, reported Turkish television stations Monday. The rocket launcher was about 20 kilometers from the Turkish border town of Kilis, which has been repeatedly targeted by rocket fire.
A bomb attack on Monday at least six people were killed on the southern outskirts of Damascus. Given the number of serious injuries probably is not all it six, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the Syrian government has taken a hospital.
US President Barack Obama will send 250 troops to Syria to fight with IS. That said a US official. The number of US soldiers in Syria thus comes to around 300.
The Turkish border town of Kilis on Sunday fired back from Syria with missiles. Several people were injured thereby, the DHA news agency reported. The Turkish government, the Islamic State group, which controls a large area on the Syrian side of the border, responsible for the shelling.
US President Barack Obama has again ruled out sending US ground troops to Syria. alone can not solve the problems in that country military efforts, he told.
Angela Merkel has sat under the strictest security measures visited the refugee camp of Nizip, in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border. The German Chancellor has been there with EU President Donald Tusk, Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission and the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formed an image of the shelter.
Turkish police on Saturday arrested six foreigners on suspicion of membership of terrorist organization Islamic State.
One of the two terrorists who blew himself up March 22 at the Brussels airport Zaventem, Najim Laachraoui, by former French inmates of Islamic State (IS) in Syria recognized as their guardian. Which reported the French newspaper Le Parisien Friday.
Wars are not only a direct threat to the civilian population but also represent a major problem for the vaccination program. Almost two thirds of children not vaccinated living in a conflict zone. According to a publication by UNICEF prior to the World Vaccination Week.
US President Barack Obama's Thursday from Saudi Arabia arrived in London. His visit is primarily intended to prevent a so-called Brexit. Washington would prefer that Britain welcomes the referendum on June 23 to remain within the European Union.,, The European Union restricts the British influence, but strengthens it, '' said Obama in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
The delegation of the Syrian opposition which is mainly supported by Saudi Arabia, the High Negotiation (HNC), largely left the peace talks in Geneva. A spokesman for the HNC said Thursday that most members leave Thursday or Friday in protest at the lack of adequate assistance to victims in the besieged places in Syria because of the escalating violence there.
Angela Merkel seizes the visit by US President Barack Obama Sunday brings to the fair of Hanover to organize a mini-summit. The German Chancellor has to slide to her colleagues in Paris, London and Rome invited Monday at an informal meeting. Dust conversation is enough.
US President Barack Obama Wednesday to visit the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and other Arab leaders in the region in the Saudi capital Riyadh arrived.
Parties in the Syrian civil war have agreed that 250 people may leave places in the northwest of the country that are long siege by rebels. Secondly, the government forces may place leaving the same number of people who besiege not far from the border with Lebanon, northwest of the capital Damascus.