India counters Turkey
In February 2023, when Turkey and Syria faced a devastating earthquake, which killed almost 52,000 people, India was amongst the first countries to respond.
In February 2023, when Turkey and Syria faced a devastating earthquake, which killed almost 52,000 people, India was amongst the first countries to respond.
Israeli incursions in southern Syria have surged in recent weeks, with more than 30 recorded in the first half of November, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Ballot boxes have closed across Syria after the counting continued late into Sunday evening, as the country conducted its first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime
Trump recently stated, “They should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda and if you look, the Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times.”
Heavy clashes broke out between Druze fighters and the interim government-aligned Bedouin tribal forces in the countryside of Sweida, southern Syria, further threatening a fragile ceasefire in the region, activists reported.
The massive earthquakes that jolted Syria and Turkey in February have affected 1,75,512 families in Syria's northwestern coastal province of Latakia, a report revealed.
The Arab League voted earlier this week to reinstate Syria’s membership, ending the suspension it imposed in 2011 in response to the Bashar al-Assad regime’s violence and repression against its own citizens participating in mass protests.
Earlier, 3 more rockets were launched from southern Syria at Israeli towns in the Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces said.
New Zealand will provide further humanitarian support for Turkey and Syria where devastating earthquakes earlier this month killed more than 57,300 people, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said on Tuesday.
While the Arab Spring had shocked all Middle Eastern countries out of their stupor and resulted in reactive violence, only the likes of Syria were suspended from the Arab League (led by Saudi Arabia) in November 2011. Even though the hand of Saudi Arabia and Turkey is firmly established in supporting and arming various factions fighting in the Syrian war, it was the official Bashir-led Syrian government that was suspended by the Saudi-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in August 2012 for, ‘deep concern at the massacres and inhuman acts‘
