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July 16th, 2026 - 08:56 GMT

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Israel tells US Pentagon it’s keeping its forces inside ‘security zones’ in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria

ALBAWABA - Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, told U.S. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth that Israel is planning to keep its forces inside their ‘security zones’ in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. Katz’s statement comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump asked Israel to withdraw its forces from said ‘security zones’, telling Netanyahu that Israeli troop deployment was fueling tensions in the region, saying: "They don't want you there. You should ...

Migrants arrive at the port of Mytilene in the Greek island of Lesbos on March 20, 2020 to be transfered in a closed camp in northern Greece as the country is battling hard to control the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 infection and also racing to avoid contagion among tens of thousands of migrants in overcrowded camps nationwide, a situation recently termed a "health bomb" by government spokesman. Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP

March 21st, 2020 - 10:03 GMT

600 Asylum Seekers Moved From Lesbos to Another Camp in Greece

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington DC, on March 17, 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has transformed the US virtually overnight from a place of boundless consumerism to one suddenly constrained by nesting and social distancing.The crisis tests all retailers, leading to temporary store closures at companies like Apple and Nike, manic buying of food staples at supermarkets and big-box stores like Walmart even as many stores remain open for busine

March 19th, 2020 - 09:12 GMT

US Blames Russia For The Deaths of Turkish Troops in Syria, Slam Sanctions on Damascus

A young boy looks on as he walks at the unofficial camp net to the refugee camp of Moria in the island of Lesbos after a fire broke out, on March 16, 2020. Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP

March 19th, 2020 - 08:02 GMT

As The EU Seals Off Borders 10K Refugees Are Locked on The Turkish-Greek Crossing

Syrian refugees are picture in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, on March 17, 2020 amidst the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic. AFP/File

March 18th, 2020 - 12:18 GMT

Syrian Regime Attack Leaves 2-Month-Old Baby With One Eye

Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. AFP/File

March 16th, 2020 - 09:55 GMT

When Will The Killing Fields in Syria Stop?

Doctor Ali Ghazal holds an awareness workshop on Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a camp for displaced people in Atme town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, near the border with Turkey, on March 14, 2020. AAREF WATAD / AFP`

March 16th, 2020 - 07:00 GMT

UNICEF: 9000 Kids Killed in Syrian War Since it Began Nine Years Ago

Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached a deal on Ma

March 15th, 2020 - 12:19 GMT

Syria's Brutal Conflict Enters its 10th Year

In this file photo taken on March 17, 2019, a fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walks carrying a machine gun at a position close to the camp of Baghouz where remaining Islamic State (IS) group fighters and their families are holding out in the last position controlled by IS, awaiting to advance on them in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. As it enters its tenth year, the war in Syria is anything but abating as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human su

March 12th, 2020 - 07:24 GMT

At Least 18 Iraqi Fighters Killed in Air Strikes on Syria

A migrant runs away as another one takes cover behind a trash container as Greek police uses water cannons to block them trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on March 7, 2020 as makeshift camps have sprung up around the border where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Turkey to leave for the European Union, in a bid to gain Western backing in Syria. As part of the 2016 agreement, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros

March 11th, 2020 - 02:26 GMT

Report: Greece Holds Migrants in Secret 'Extrajudicial' Site

Migrants take cover behind a wooden board as Greek police uses water cannons to block them trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on March 7, 2020 as makeshift camps have sprung up around the border where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Turkey to leave for the European Union, in a bid to gain Western backing in Syria. As part of the 2016 agreement, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros, but Ankara accused the Europ

March 11th, 2020 - 11:27 GMT

Greek Action in Pushing Back Asylum Seekers is an EU Law Violation

Migrants and refugees who arrived from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on March 5, try to keep warm as they gather in the yard of a small church where they have spent the rainy night near Skala Sykamnias on March 6, 2020. A group of 42 refugees and migrants weave through coast guard patrols and arrived on the shores of Lebos during the evening of March 5. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP

March 11th, 2020 - 07:30 GMT

Coronavirus Spreads to Lesbos That Houses a Camp of 27,000 Refugee

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 9, 2020. JOHN THYS / AFP

March 9th, 2020 - 11:58 GMT

EU: Turkey Must Move Refugees Away From The Greek Border