The number of refugees should be forced in Greece will increase from approximately 33,000 now to 100,000 in late March. European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (Migration) on Saturday warned before.
Nearly seven hundred people have been slain in Syria since the start of a ceasefire a week ago.
Iran and Turkey want from a joint perspective,, '' to work on ending the civil war in Syria. That said, the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Saturday during a visit to the Iranian capital Tehran.
UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura expects the planned peace talks next week will gradually start. Some delegations arrive on March 9, another because of problems with reservations probably one or more days later. The negotiations will be conducted indirectly and the parties De Mistura will not be in the same room with each other to said table, in an interview with the Arab newspaper Al Hayat.
In parts of Syria that are in the hands of insurgents are civilians Friday took to the streets to demonstrate against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Under the motto 'The revolution continues', the demonstrators showed that after five years of civil war still want political change.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed its commitment to maintain the file in Syria. This said German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a telephone consultation Syria with Putin and the leaders of France, Britain and Italy.
The number of migrants has applied for asylum in the European Union has more than doubled last year to a record number of 1.26 million. This was reported by the European statistics agency Eurostat Friday.
IS-chief Amr al-Absi, also known as Abu al-Athir, was slain in an air strike in Syria. Al-Athir was the leader of a terrorist movement in Aleppo, where fighting for many Dutch and Belgian fighters Syria in 2013 and 2014.
The United States has set up a permanent hotline for the reporting of violations in Syria. Syrians coming under fire while the truce should apply, a complaint can do on the track. Not only in Arabic. The British newspaper The Independent has established that the hotline that started last Saturday, is mainly staffed by people who do not speak Arabic.
By an attack with a car bomb and a rocket attack in southeastern Turkey Friday two policemen died. Which have had security forces know.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's call Friday with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain about the cease-fire in Syria.
Across Syria on Thursday a power failure. That report the state media in the war-torn country in the Middle East. It is not known what caused the failure. One source suggests that the government has started an investigation.
Syrian and Russian air forces have bombed last three months deliberate hospitals and medical clinics. According to Amnesty International they want to pave the way with war strategy for ground forces who want to advance north of the city of Aleppo.
The US State Department has set up a phone number where people can pass if the truce is violated in Syria. That seems easy, but in practice calls prove to be problematic due to poor telephone operators speak Arabic.
The United Nations Security Council, North Korea Wednesday imposed new sanctions. The council punished the regime in Pyongyang for the nuclear test carried out by the start of January.
The confused woman Monday in Moscow was arrested the head of a child entrusted to her care, said Wednesday that Allah commanded her to kill the four-year-old girl. The woman, Goeltsjechra Bobokoelova (38) Wednesday brought before the court, which extended her detention by two months.
The file in Syria has been breached in the past three days, 31 times. Which has declared the Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday. The spokeswoman said there was not shown by the parties to the weapons.
US soldiers of the elite Delta Force unit found in northern Iraq arrested a fighter from Islamic State. It was the first time that the Americans in a targeted action on the hunt went to an IS-terrorist.
Syria gives UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), the space for a vaccination campaign for children across the country. That Syrian dignitaries UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake pledged Tuesday said Lake.
The peace talks on the conflict in Syria next Wednesday resumed. That's special envoy Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations announced Tuesday.
If the United States and Russia are not quickly taking forward the success of the cease-fire in Syria peace talks may have to be postponed again. That says special envoy of the United Nations, Staffan de Mistura.
Despite the partial ceasefire in Syria is an international group of journalists shot in the north of the country. Among the 33 reporters have included journalists from Germany, Bulgaria, Canada and China, said a Russian military spokesman Tuesday.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sees the cessation of hostilities came into force on Saturday in his country,, a glimmer of hope ''. He says in an interview with German television being broadcast Tuesday.
The IS leadership takes hard revenge on the Dutch mutinous IS fighters in Raqqa. They may be forced to choose between being executed or 'martyr' and 'voluntary' suicide bombers.
The cease-fire is respected in Syria, after a few incidents. This said UN chief Ban Ki-moon Monday after a meeting with his Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura.
The file in Syria that took effect Saturday, is observed generally. Reported Sunday that Russian observers from Syria. They announced that they have identified only nine violations of the ceasefire in the previous 24 hours.
The Syrian border town of Tel Abyad on Sunday taken by artillery fired from Turkey. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Warplanes have Sunday west of the Syrian city of Aleppo air strikes.
In Algeria on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the attacks of 13 November in Paris. It would be an Algerian who lives in Belgium.
The extremists of the Islamic State (IS) on Saturday attacked the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad. In addition, according to observers of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights surely 45 IS fighters and twenty Kurdish militiamen died.
