Turkey’s foreign minister has emphasised that the safe zone in northern Syria must go ahead and the US cannot delay its creation writes Anadolu News Agency.
Former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has said that Washington has an ambiguous strategy when it comes to Syria writes Anadolu News Agency.
While Assad has achieved success on the ground, he now faces new battles on the diplomatic stage, which look set to be an insurmountably task writes Anadolu News Agency.
At a speech at the American University of Cairo, the Secretary of State spoke about the fight against radical Islam and the struggle to expel Iran from Syria writes The US State Department.
The visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, marks the first time that an Arab leader has visited Syria since the war began in 2011 writes Anadolu News Agency.
A Turkish news agency is claiming that US troops were captured in September by the Islamic State, which accepted to release them in exchange for the control of an oil field and food and medical supplies
President Assad has vowed to retake the north and rejects the presence of US and Turkish troops in Manbij writes SANA
A large numbers of troops and armored vehicles have been seen moving south in preparation for an assault on Daraa reports Zaman Al Wasl
The airstrike, which killed at least 22 Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi fighters, was initially blamed on the U.S. writes Anadolu Agency
There have been no reports of casualties following the blast writes Anadolu Agency
Some of the major events in Syria last weekend
The US occupation of Syria is illegal and a threat to Syrian sovereignty writes Al Watan
As both the Syrian Army and US back forces move in, Daesh’s territory gets smaller and smaller reports Zaman Al Wasl
The bridges that spanned the Euphrates River in Raqqa were destroyed during the fight to reclaim the city from Daesh reports Anadolu
There was an outcry over Israeli raids in Syria this weekend
Russia was content to act as a bystander, Alsouria Net writes
Assad dismisses Trump’s label of him as an ‘animal’ in extensive interview
A source in the Foreign Ministry said the U.S.’ hostile stance affects security around the world, SANA reports
The jihadist group agrees to release 5,000 people it has imprisoned, Zaman al-Wasl reports
An Iranian opposition group report claims the country is losing $10-12 billion in Syria annually, according to Zaman al-Wasl
