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ISTANBUL: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic will soon host a virtual conference on the situation in Syria and the Arab country’s peace process as agreed by the three guarantor countries in the Kazakh capital. Zarif made the remarks while speaking in a joint press conference …

Tripoli:On Saturday, the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces launched a big offensive to capture the port-city of Sirte and several towns nearby. Backed by Turkish drones, the GNA forces scored a quick advance to start off the offensive, as their troops reportedly captured several areas and entered the …

Damascus: The Anatolia News agency announced on Friday that a Greek group wearing military fatigues opened fire on a Turkish police boat while the latter was patrolling the Mrayij River near the Turkish-Greek border. The news agency said that the Special Operations Police found near the Bashiurt border police station, …

Damascus: The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that a Turkish soldier was killed and two others wounded in an attack on an armored armored ambulance in the Idlib Governorate. A statement from the ministry revealed that the Turkish forces immediately set their targets and responded by firing at the source …

The Turkish parliament has stripped two pro-Kurdish lawmakers and one MP from the main opposition party of their parliamentary status as the Ankara government presses ahead with a clampdown on opposition members. Leyla Guven and Musa Farisogullari from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) …

Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj is about to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, as the two allies seek to lock in recent gains against the North African country’s rebel commander, Khalifa Haftar, ahead of a fresh round of peace talks on a potential truce. For the past …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Libya’s eastern-based renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar will not manage to emerge victorious out of the ongoing conflict in the country. Ankara provides military support to the rival Government of National Accord (GNA) to fend off offensives by Haftar’s forces. “Taking back the coastline from Tripoli to Tunisia, …

Turkish-backed Takfiri militants have burned local residents’ homes in the northern countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, as they continue to commit crimes against the local population, including extortion and looting of their property. Local sources, requesting not to be named, told Syria’s official news agency SANA on Monday …

Damascus: The Turkish military has allegedly deployed its long-range air defense system in the northwestern governorate of Idlib, the pro-opposition Aleppo Media Center claimed on Sunday. According to the Aleppo Media Center, the Turkish military deployed its air defense system to Talat Al-Nabi Ayoub, which is the highest point in …

Turkish military forces have reportedly fired several rockets at the positions of Syrian government forces in the Arab country’s northwestern province of Aleppo. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SHOR) said in a report on Saturday that the forces struck Syrian army strongholds in Urum al-Kubrah town, which lies …