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Syria ceasefire: US and Russia reach tentative agreement
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept. 10 (ANI): The United States and Russia have agreed a tentative ceasefire deal for Syria, intended to lead the way to a joint US-Russian air campaign against the Islamic State and other extremist groups and new political negotiations within the country.
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Thousands of refugees stuck at Jordan border face risk of epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Sept. 4 (ANI): Aid workers have warned that tens of thousands of "ghost" refugees, who have been trapped in the desert along Jordan's border with Syria for more than two months, are at a risk of epidemics.
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Kerry discusses regional issues with Egyptian President in Delhi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep. 2 (ANI): United States Secretary of State John Kerry met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in New Delhi to discuss bilateral and regional issues, including Syria, Libya and Middle East peace.
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UN aid programme in Syria under Assad's grip: Report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug. 30 (ANI): Critics fear that the United Nations aid programme to Syria is on the verge of being compromised as the organization has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to the people closely associated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the whim of the D
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US, Russia make headway on brokering truce in war-torn Syria
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug. 27 (ANI): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said his talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have made much headway and only minor details remain to be ironed out for brokering a new cessation of hostilities in war-torn Syria.
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Several feared dead after explosion at Turkey's Cizre police checkpoi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug. 26 (ANI): Reportedly, the Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb at an outpost in Sirnak province, on the Syria border killing and injuring several people.
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Turkey: 30 killed, 94 injured in wedding explosion
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug. 21 (ANI): 30 people have been killed and around 94 injured when an explosion at a wedding rocked the south eastern city of Gaziantep, located about 95 kilometers north of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo.
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M. J. Akbar to travel to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq between Aug.17-23
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 17 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs M. J. Akbar will be on an official visit to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq from August 17 to 23 to strengthen bilateral ties with the West Asia region.
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M. J. Akbar to travel to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq between August 17-23
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 12 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs M. J. Akbar will be on an official visit to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq from August 17 to 23 to strengthen bilateral ties with the West Asia region.
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ISIS fighters reduced to 15,000 amid 'retreat on all fronts', cl
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 11 (ANI): A top US commander has claimed the military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have eliminated around 45,000 enemy combatants and reduced the total number of Islamic State fighters to as few as 15,000.
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German Police detains Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of plotting terrorist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Berlin, Aug. 10 (ANI): A German special police unit has detained a 24-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker whom they suspected of plotting a terrorist attack during the opening of the national soccer league season.
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Pak, Iran to collaborate against Islamic State
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): Pakistan and Iran have agreed to cooperate in countering threats posed by an extremist Middle Eastern terrorist outfit, which has set up a self-styled caliphate across large swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.
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