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IRC head warns of ‘secondary crisis’ in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2023 0

BY BENJAMIN OMOIKE The head of the International Rescue Committee echoed concerns about aid efforts in Syria on Sunday. “On the Turkish side of the border, you’ve got a very strong government. You’ve got a massive aid effort underway,” David Miliband, president and CEO of the

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NGO says 62 children die this year in Syria camp

Ihesiulo Grace 23 September 2021 0

Sixty two children died in 2021 from different causes in an overcrowded Syrian prison camp, for mostly Islamic State families, in North-East Syria. A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) Save the Children Syria said on Thursday in their publication. The NGO stated that sixty two children or approximately two every week have died of different causes […]

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Israeli strikes kill one civilian, 10 others in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 1 September 2020 0

Israeli strikes on Syria killed one civilian, three government troops, and seven allied foreign fighters, a war monitor said on Tuesday in a new toll.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which had previously put the toll from Monday’s strikes at five, said Iran-backed paramilitary fighters were among those killed in the attack. The Britain-based […]

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Rapper, Yung6ix to undergo surgery worth 17 million naira

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2020 0

Nigerian Rapper, Onome Onokohwomo, popularly known as Yung6ix, has revealed he’ll be having a surgery that will cost him about 17 million naira. Yung6ix, who once dominated the Nigerian Rap Genre in the last decade, made this known in a tweet he posted on Tuesday, via his official Twitter page. READ ALSO: You are proud, […]

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Syrian Kurds blame Turkey for tanker blast

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2020 0

Syrian Kurds have blamed Turkey for creating the conditions that led to a blast that killed at least 46 people the day before in a Syrian town controlled by Turkish-backed rebels. On Tuesday, a booby-trapped fuel tanker exploded in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, which is controlled by Turkish troops and their allied rebel […]

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First witness testifies in German trial on alleged torture in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2020 0

The first witness in a groundbreaking trial against Syrian officials suspected of torture testified in Germany on Friday, describing statements that the main defendant had made to German police about his past. The defendant – then a witness – told police during an interrogation in 2017 that he had held a high position in a prison […]

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No coronavirus cases confirmed yet in Syria – WHO

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2020 0

 World Health Organisation spokesman Christian Lindmeier, on Tuesday said Syria is yet to register a single case of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection despite access to tests in the country. “There are no cases of coronavirus in Syria. It has now become possible to conduct tests both in the territory under the control of the government, and […]

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Turkey says 33 soldiers killed in airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib

Ihesiulo Grace 28 February 2020 0

At least 33 Turkish soldiers died in airstrikes in the north-western Syrian province of Idlib, an official said Friday, amid an unprecedented escalation in the battle for the country’s last opposition stronghold. Governor Rahmi Dogan of the Turkish province of Hatay, which borders Idlib, said wounded soldiers being treated in hospital were not in a

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UN says more than 948,000 displaced in Syria due to fighting

Ihesiulo Grace 26 February 2020 0

More than 948,000 people have been displaced in north-western Syria since December due to an ongoing Syrian government campaign in the last rebel stronghold in the country, the UN said on Wednesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said this in a tweet. READ ALSO: United Nations disbursed N70m Loan for toilet […]

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Syria reopens Aleppo airport after 8-year closure

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2020 0

A plane operated by Syria’s national carrier on Wednesday landed in Aleppo’s airport, marking the reopening of the facility after an eight-year closure, the state Syrian news agency SANA reported. Syrian government forces, supported by allied Russian forces, announced their capture of the countryside around Aleppo from rebels earlier this week, in the north of […]

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Trump urges Russia to stop supporting “atrocities” in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2020 0

President Donald Trump has urged Russia to stop supporting the “atrocities” of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House announced on Sunday. Read also: Coronavirus: US to evacuate citizens from virus-infected cruise ship During a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump “expressed concern over

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Us warns Greece against Iranian ship

Ihesiulo Grace 21 August 2019 0

The Iranian ship (Adrian Darya-1) has been denied help by Greece on the suspicion of shipping oil to Syria, prior to this denial the said ship was earlier detained in Gibraltar. In the words of Deputy foreign minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis as he spoke to broadcaster ANT1 that his country was “not willing to facilitate the […]

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ISIS sneaking jihadists into Nigeria from Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 19 June 2018 0

Leaders of terrorist group, Islamic State, are sneaking battle-hardened jihadis from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists for possible attacks in Britain. There were fears that strong links between Nigeria and the UK would make it easier for IS to send its killers to Britain to orchestrate terror attacks, death and destruction. It noted that […]

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Russian jet pilot ‘pulled grenade pin’ to avoid capture in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 5 February 2018 0

Russian media have lauded a pilot killed in Syria as a hero, saying he detonated his grenade to avoid being captured by jihadists who had shot his plane out of the sky. Roman Filipov’s reported last words were: “Here’s for the guys.” His Sukhoi-25 ground-attack aircraft was shot down over rebel-held Idlib province. He survived […]

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Abandoned villages on road to Mosul rigged with tunnels and bombs

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2016 0

A deep tunnel, booby trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half buried in a dirt road. Residents began returning on Wednesday to the village of Sheikh Amir on the road to Mosul, recaptured overnight by advancing Kurdish fighters in the early […]

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US Special Forces Kill Senior IS Leader in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 16 May 2015 0

The US special forces killed a senior Islamic State group leader and captured his wife in a daring raid in eastern Syria, the White House announced on Saturday. The raid was carried out at the direction of US President Barack Obama, his spokeswoman on national security matters, Bernadette Meehan said in a statement. “Last night, […]

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2 Million Children at Risk from Weapons in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2015 0

An international aid group says Syria has been so contaminated with weapons and bombs that the lives of 5.1 million people, including 2 million children, are at constant risk. Handicap International, which helps the disabled during conflicts, called on all parties in the conflict to abide by international humanitarian law and immediately end use of […]

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72 Dead as Syria Army Battles to Free Loyalists

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2015 0

At least 72 fighters were killed in a single day as the Syrian army battled to relieve some 250 besieged regime loyalists under rebel assault, a monitoring group said on Monday.   President Bashar Assad had personally pledged to rescue the trapped troops and civilians, who are said to include senior figures and have been […]

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State of Syrian Refugee Camp 'beyond Inhumane'

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2015 0

Shelling and sporadic clashes struck a Palestinian refugee camp under attack by Islamic extremists in the Syrian capital on Monday, a situation that a UN official described as “beyond inhumane”. Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, said the Yarmouk camp was under attack on Monday. Both al-Dimashqi and the […]

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Syria Rebels Capture Crew of Downed Military Helicopter

Ihesiulo Grace 22 March 2015 0

Four government airmen taken hostage after aircraft crashes in northwestern Idlib province, activist group says. Syrian rebels have captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of the country’s northwest, activists have said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that four crew members had been