Syria

DAMASCUS/BEIRUT, Aug 16 (NNN-SANA/NNA) – Syrian and Lebanese officials, met in the Syrian capital, Damascus yesterday, to discuss ways to facilitate the monthly return of 15,000 Syrian refugees.

Syrian Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Hussein Makhlouf, held a meeting with visiting Lebanese Minister of the Displaced, Issam Charafeddine, during which they touched upon measures taken by Syria, to secure a safe and quick home return for the refugees, based on a timeline set by both countries.

DAMASCUS, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Eleven people were killed on Tuesday by a Turkish airstrike targeting a military position in northern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Turkish strike hit the Syrian military base in the countryside of Ayn al-Arab city in the northern countryside of Aleppo province near the Syrian-Turkish border, said the UK-based watchdog group.

Eight people were also wounded in the strike, and the death toll could rise due to the number of critically wounded people, it said.

DAMASCUS, Aug 15 (NNN-SANA) – The Israeli regime fired several missiles, on military sites, in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the coastal city of Tartous, last night, killing three soldiers.

Israeli warplanes fired missiles from the direction of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and targeted military sites, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian military said, in a statement.

Another attack, launched simultaneously from over the Mediterranean, hit military facilities in Tartous, in north-west Syria, it adds.

DAMASCUS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The real purpose of U.S. presence in Syria has never been about fighting terrorism, but stealing resources and imposing its own vision of the future on the Arab country, said Syrian experts.

From controlling key oil and agricultural fields to slapping suffocating sanctions, the United States has been blatantly violating Syria's sovereignty, the experts noted.

LAME EXCUSE

Maher Ihsan, a journalist and political expert, told Xinhua that after being in Syria for eight years, Washington's real goals and schemes can not be hidden anymore.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian Cabinet minister said Monday that Syrian refugees in neighboring Lebanon can start returning home, where he said they will get all the help they need from authorities.

Tiny Lebanon is home to 1 million Syrian refugees who fled war in their country after the conflict began in March 2011. The large number of refugees in the small Mediterranean nation makes it one of the highest per capita host countries of refugees in the world.

15 August 2022; MEMO: Israel hit Iranian targets in a series of strikes yesterday near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and close to Russia's main Syrian bases on the Mediterranean coast, regional intelligence and Syrian military sources said, Reuters reported.

13 August 2022; MEMO: Protests spread throughout northern Syria over the past few days, after remarks by Turkiye's Foreign Minister hinting at a possible reconciliation with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.

At a news conference on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that he had met his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad at a conference in Serbia last October, and that the Turkish and Syrian intelligence services had restarted contact with each other.

13 August 2022; MEMO: The Kurdish autonomous administration on Friday handed over around 700 people to the Iraqi government, most of whom are relatives of members of Daesh and detained inside a camp in north-eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

SOHR stated that more than 620 relatives of the organisation's members left Al-Hol camp by joint coordination between the camp administration and the Iraqi government.

DAMASCUS, Aug 11 (NNN-SANA) – Abu Salem al-Iraqi, a senior Daesh leader in southern Syria, blew himself up, during a Syrian security operation in the southern province of Daraa, on Tuesday, it was reported yesterday.

A security source said, the Syrian security forces carried out a security operation, which led to al-Iraqi detonating his explosive belt, after being encircled by the Syrian forces, inside a house in the town of Adwan, in the western countryside of Daraa.

Al-Iraqi received several gunshots before detonating his explosive belt, said the report.

06 August 2022; MEMO: The Russian Defence Ministry announced on Friday that its air forces had "eliminated" a group of opposition fighters trained by the US in Syria on 4 August.