Author: Fri, 2020-02-07 23:13 KARBALA, BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite cleric on Friday condemned recent deadly attacks on anti-government demonstrators, chastising security forces for not doing more to prevent violence in protest squares across the country. Eight demonstrators were killed this … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1581100202560084000 Fri, 2020-02-07 21:28 LONDON: Military operations in northwest Syria have caused “unacceptable” human suffering and “massive waves of civilian displacement and major loss of civilian life,” the UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1581093564869648100 Fri, 2020-02-07 19:38 LONDON: British Daesh militants could face trial in Syria under plans announced by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is holding thousands of prisoners in the country’s northeast. The SDF’s political … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1581089344789347700 Fri, 2020-02-07 15:01 JERUSALEM: Palestinian and US leaders blamed each other for a surge of violence, as mourners gathered in the occupied West Bank for the funeral of a Palestinian police officer shot dead during unrest, … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1581069323268045400 Fri, 2020-02-07 09:00 ISTANBUL: A Russian delegation will arrive in Turkey on Saturday for talks aiming to stop the Syrian government’s “aggression” and halt a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria’s northwest Idlib region, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut … read more