Syria

05 Oct 2020; MEMO: Syrian opposition forces shot down a Russian drone in Latakia at the same time that the regime army announced that it is deploying reinforcements to Idlib in the north of Syria, Safa news agency reported on Sunday. The drone was downed at Al-Akrad Mountain in the countryside to the north of Latakia, apparently as it headed for Idlib.

03 Oct 2020; MEMO: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad stressed the importance of the role played by Russian military bases in ensuring security and stability in Syria and fighting global terrorism.

30 Sep 2020; MEMO: The US Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said Washington will normalise its relations with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad after it adopts UN Security Council Resolution 2254 regarding the political process in the war-torn country.

DAMASCUS, Sept 27 (NNN-SANA) – Seven civilians were killed yesterday, by a car bomb explosion in Syria’s north-eastern province of Hasakah.

The car bomb exploded at the southern entrance of the city of Ras al-Ayn, in the countryside of Hasakah.

Two children were among those killed.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, seven civilians were killed and 10 others wounded by the explosion.

It said, the blast rocked the industrial zone south of Ras al-Ayn.

26 Sep 2020; MEMO: The US Army has sent 70 trucks to Syria through the Al-Waleed border crossing with Iraq, local sources said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The convoy, including 12 armoured vehicles, trucks with essential supplies, and several fuel tankers, went to US bases in Syria’s Hasakah, Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zour provinces on Thursday, according to the sources, who requested anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

DAMASCUS, Sept 24 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian Foreign Ministry, on Wednesday, accused the rebels in the north-western province of Idlib, of preparing a chemical attack, to frame the Syrian army.

In a statement, the ministry said, the rebels in cooperation with the so-called White Helmet group, and under the Turkish support, are preparing to fabricate a chemical attack in Idlib.

Two tonnes of chemical substances have been brought to a village, in south-western Idlib, over the past two days, as part of the preparation for the attack, it said.

DAMASCUS, Sept 21 (NNN-SANA) – Five pro-government fighters were killed in a blast, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour in Syria, a war monitor reported.

The five fighters were killed by a landmine explosion, that targeted their vehicle a day earlier, in a desert region in the western countryside of Deir al-Zour, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

21 Sep 2020; MEMO: The United States continues to loot oil from Syria’s Al-Jazeera region through Iraqi territories, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported yesterday.

“A US convoy, consisting of 30 tanker trucks laden with stolen Syrian oil has left the war-stricken country and sneaked into neighbouring Iraq through the illegal Al-Walid crossing in the Al-Yaroubia area,” SANA said.

21 Sep 2020; MEMO: Syrian opposition sources said Russian jets bombed rebel-held northwestern Syria on Sunday in the most extensive strikes since a Turkish-Russian deal halted major fighting with a ceasefire nearly six months ago, Reuters reports.

Witnesses said the warplanes struck the western outskirts of Idlib city and that there was heavy artillery shelling in the mountainous Jabal al Zawya region in southern Idlib from nearby Syrian army outposts. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

18 Sep 2020; MEMO: The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trump for saying he wanted to assassinate regime President Bashar Al-Assad a few years ago, Sana news agency reported.

Earlier on Tuesday Trump acknowledged that he wanted to assassinate Al-Assad for using chemical weapons in 2017.