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1-year-old girl dies due to extreme heat at Syria Idlib displacement camp: UN

A one-year-old girl died at a displacement camp in the north-western Syrian city of Idlib after her health deteriorated due to extreme heat, a UN spokesperson said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The infant and her family lived in a three-year-old tent in a camp, where the temperatures are reaching up to 30-46 degrees Celsius (86-114.8 degrees Fahrenheit), Stephane Dujarric told reporters. "Our partners reported that at least 165 tents in the […]

today29 July 2023

International News

Scarce resources in Syria’s rebel-held areas amid COVID-19 fears

The last opposition-held stronghold in Syria is bracing for its fight against the coronavirus pandemic with just one machine equipped to run a test to detect the rapidly spreading pathogen. Mohamad Shahim Makki, a doctor in Idlib province, a war-battered region in northwest Syria that is home to more than three million people, confirmed to Al Jazeera that the machine is the only available device outside government-held areas that is […]

today15 April 2020

International News

Protesters block Idlib’s M4 highway in defiance of Russia-Turkey deal

Billows of smoke are rising from tyres that protesters have burned on the strategic M4 highway. Huge mounds of dirt, rocks, and scrap metal have been erected to keep vehicles from travelling along the road. The once smooth roadway is now one long stretch of obstacles placed there by the protesters to send a message that Russian patrol forces are not welcome. According to the ceasefire arrangement signed between Russia […]

today17 March 2020

International News

Erdogan vows to keep border open for refugees until EU meets all demands

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he would keep Turkey's border open for refugees until the EU had met all Ankara's demands while comparing Greece's response to the crisis to the Nazis. "Until all Turkey's expectations, including free movement, updating of the customs union and financial assistance, are tangibly met, we will continue the practice on our borders," he said in a televised speech. Turkey's decision at the […]

today12 March 2020

International News

Brawl in Turkey’s parliament after MP criticises Erdogan

A fistfight erupted in the Turkish parliament on Wednesday during a speech by an opposition legislator who earlier accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of disrespecting Turkish soldiers who died in Syria. Dozens of parliamentarians joined the brawl, some climbing on top of desks to throw punches, while others tried to stop the fighting, according to video footage of the brouhaha. Some legislators fell to the ground during the fray, Turkey's […]

today5 March 2020

International News

Turkey shoots down two Syrian fighter jets over Idlib

Turkey's military shot down two Syrian government fighter jets over northwest Idlib, hours after forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad brought down a Turkish drone over the region. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Turkey's defence ministry said its forces struck two SU-24 aircraft in response to the downing of the drone. Syria's SANA news agency confirmed the aircraft were hit over northwestern Idlib province, but said no one was hurt […]

today2 March 2020

International News

33 Turkish soldiers killed in Syrian air raid in Idlib

At least 33 Turkish soldiers have been killed in an air raid by Syrian government forces in the northwestern Idlib province, the governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said early on Friday, raising an earlier death toll, while also threatening an escalation of conflict and another refugee crisis. The deaths are the largest number of fatalities suffered by Turkey in a single day since it began sending thousands of troops […]

today28 February 2020

International News

Turkey will repel Syrian forces from Idlib posts this week: Erdogan

Turkey plans to push Syrian government forces away from its military observation posts in northwest Syria’s Idlib region this week, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, despite advances by Damascus’s Russian-backed military. Nearly a million Syrians have been displaced in the last three months by fighting between Turkish-backed rebels and Syrian forces trying to recapture the last major insurgent-held region in Syria after nine years of war. Ankara has sent […]

today27 February 2020

International News

‘Nowhere is safe’: UN warns of urgent danger of Syria escalation

'Unfolding humanitarian catastrophe' in Idlib as fighting approaches areas packed with civilians fleeing gov't push.Hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing a fierce government push are being squeezed into ever-smaller areas near Turkey's border under horrendous conditions, including below-freezing temperatures that are killing babies and children, the United Nations humanitarian chief has warned. Addressing the UN Security Council, Mark Lowcock said on Wednesday the "unfolding humanitarian catastrophe" in Syria's northwestern Idlib […]

today20 February 2020

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