US President Donald Trump held telephone consultations with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the policy statement issued by Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
A British court sentenced a teenager to life imprisonment because he wanted to commit a terrorist attack during a pop concert. The seventeen-year-old boy wanted to do that with a vehicle at a Justin Bieber concert in Cardiff at the end of June, one month after the bloody attack in Manchester at a concert by the American Ariana Grande that killed more than twenty people.
US President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel stressed in a telephone conversation that the recent Security Council resolution on a ceasefire in Syria must be implemented immediately. They accuse the Syrian government and the Russian and Iranian allies of the regime in Damascus.
Rebels violate the file in Syria according to the Russian army in five provinces and the East-Ghouta region. They thus block the evacuation of civilians from dangerous places in East Ghouta.
Citizens in the region of East Ghouta besieged for years, not far from the Syrian capital Damascus, have 'massively announced that they want to get away from it', but the fighters in the enclave prevent that. This said the Russian general Vladimir Zolotoechin against the media. He speaks on behalf of a Russian authority that inter alia mediates between warring parties in Syria.
Despite a file proposed by Russia and Syria, the fighting continues in the Syrian East Ghouta. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that the Syrian army supported by militia has captured territory in the battles with the rebels.
Despite sharp criticism from the United States, Turkey does not feel bound by the UN resolution on a truce in Syria. The country plans to continue its offensive against the Kurdish YPG militias in Afrin.
North Korea has shipped material to Syria that can be used in chemical weapons. US media reported this on the basis of findings from UN experts. According to reports, it concerns acid-resistant tiles, valves and pipes.
A Czech court ordered Tuesday the release of former Syrian-Kurdish PYD leader Saleh Muslim, his lawyer said. This despite the call from Turkey to keep him in detention pending an extradition request.
Local employees of the United Nations and international aid organizations have sexually exploited women in Syria in exchange for emergency aid. That reports the British broadcaster BBC Tuesday. Although there would have been warnings about the abuse three years ago, a new report from the UN shows that the misconduct has not yet stopped.
Turkey sends special police units to the Syrian Afrin region, despite the ceasefire announced on Saturday. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says the units are needed for a 'new fight.' According to the Turkish news agency Dogan, the troops are going to take part in battles in inhabited areas.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that the cease-fire in Syria will only take effect if all parties agree on the conditions. According to Lavrov, that is not yet the case.
At least 25 people were killed in Syria due to an air raid by the international coalition against Islamic State. That is what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says, which mentions at least seven deceased children.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations called on the warring parties in Syria to observe a cease-fire. 'East Ghouta can not wait. It is high time that this hell on earth comes to an end ', said António Guterres against the Human Rights Council of the UN.
The attacks by the Syrian government army on East Ghouta near Damascus continued on Sunday. This happened despite the resolution for a cease-fire that was adopted on Saturday by the UN Security Council.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted, with Russian support, a resolution for a 30-day truce in Syria.
The Syrian East Ghouta is bombed for the fifth day in a row by fighter planes. This is reported by citizens and aid workers in the region. Since the bombing started Sunday, at least 300 people have died.
Heavy shelling has cost the lives of dozens of people in East Ghouta, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that at least 27 people were killed on Wednesday. Another 200 people would have been injured.
Aid organization Unicef sent a virtually blank press release on Wednesday. The children's rights organization of the UN has 'no words' for the misery that children undergo in Syria.
Turkey has so far neutralized 1780 warriors of the Kurdish YPG with its operation Olijftak in northwest Syria. 'The Turkish General Staff reported this.
The former party leader of the left-wing HDP in Turkey, Serpil Kemalbay, was released conditionally after a week. She is not allowed to leave the country. Kemalbay was arrested a few days after her departure as party leader, because she had fierce criticism of the Turkish military intervention in the northwest of Syria against Kurdish militias.
An Iraqi court sentenced a woman to death and eleven others to life imprisonment for terrorism and membership of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist movement. The woman sentenced to death is a Turkish. Except for one, a woman from Azerbaijan, all convicts are Turkish, reported the news channel al-Jazeera.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vigorously accused of Iran at the annual International Safety Conference in Munich. The country is 'the biggest threat to our world', Netanyahu said, holding a piece of a drone.
Turkey says it has never used chemical weapons in Syria. The denial follows accusations of Syrian-Kurdish troops that the country has carried out a poison gas attack in the Afrin region.
The United States recognizes that Turkey has the right to protect its borders. That is what the American minister Tillerson (Foreign Affairs) said on Friday after consultation in the Turkish capital Ankara. Tillersons Turkish colleague Cavusoglu said that steps have been taken to improve mutual ties. They have been under stress in recent weeks.
One in six children grow up in a crisis area. Especially in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia there are particularly great dangers here, warns Save the Children in a report. Children should be much better protected, says the international aid organization.
A 36-year-old Moroccan was arrested by the French and Spanish police on suspicion of involvement in a failed attack in an express train from Amsterdam to Paris on August 21, 2015. Then the Moroccan Ayoub al-Khazzani in France opened fire in a Thalys high-speed train but he was quickly overpowered by American soldiers who happened to be in the train.
US forces have killed dozens of Russian mercenaries in Syria last week. That means an American official and three Russians who are familiar with the case.
The Syrian government has promised Israel 'more surprises' in possible future air strikes. This announcement follows the collapse of an Israeli fighter jet, which returned on Saturday after bombing targets in Syria.
The US minister Rex Tillerson (Foreign Affairs) warns that terrorist group Islamic State has not yet been eliminated. ' That the big combat operations are behind us does not mean that we have definitively defeated IS \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, he emphasized in Kuwait.
