- Russia, Turkey and Iran have agreed on all four safe zones in Syria, including on the Idlib de-escalation area, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry confirmed after a joint statement on Friday, Sputnik reported. The three sides discussed details of the agreement at meetings in Astana, the capital of ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Damascus (AFP Photo/Handout)/ Moscow (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to Damascus on Tuesday as Syrian forces supported by the Russian army prepare to ...
A former Iranian Member of Parliament has said the fact that Syria has not fallen so far is because of Iran's support. "Iran’s support for Syria has been the reason why Syria has not fallen so far. When the Syrian president, after a city in Syria has been freed from Daesh (Islamic State, aka IS, ...
- Negotiators from the three countries sponsoring Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, say they have reached an agreement to set up de-escalation zones in Syria for six months. The negotiators from Russia, Turkey, and Iran said in a joint statement on September 15 that the zones would ...
This file picture shows a general view of the sixth round of the Syria talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana on September 15, 2017. (By AFP)/ Russia, Iran, and Turkey, which together act as guarantor states in peace talks for Syria, have agreed on the details of a “de-escalation zone” in the ...
This handout picture released by Syria's official SANA news agency shows President Bashar al-Assad attending a cabinet meeting in Damascus on June 20, 2017. (Via AFP)/ Syrian President Bashar Assad has sent a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, thanking him ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia's Black Sea resort town of Sochi on September 13. The Kremlin press service confirmed the meeting but did not release details of the discussions. Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...