Tag: Syria

The international envoy to the Syrian conflict has called on President Bashar Assad's regime to take the lead in a proposed cease-fire during a Muslim holiday later this month. Lakhdar ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly discussed their differences over Syria during an unscheduled meeting this morning in Baku.  The meeting lasted about 40 minutes, according ...

Nearly 400 million Turkish Liras has been spent on caring for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said, while adding that factoring local expenses into the ...

Spokesperson for the US Department of State, Victoria Nuland has stated that as U.S., they support the decision of Turkey over Turkish ban on Syrian planes. Spokesperson for the US ...

The number of Syrians taking shelter in Turkey climbs over 100,000 ‘psychological limit’ as Ankara tries to keep its open door policy. However, the EU says it will make no ...

Catherine Ashton said that she was highly concerned about the incidents taking place at the Turkish-Syrian border. High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton ...

Reports on an alleged plan to deploy 3,000 peacekeeping troops to war-torn Syria are “false,” said Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, denying mass media speculations. ...

International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi appealed to Iran to help arrange a ceasefire in Syria during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha as rebels and government forces fought street by street and ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday immediate repairs to a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo after fierce fighting between opposition and regime forces set parts of the ...

As tensions between Ankara and Damascus are worsening at a time when the 19-month-old conflict is intensifying with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough, a Berlin-based analyst said that neither ...