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Turkey rebuilds over 400 war-torn schools in Syria

IDLIB - PKK/PYD terror group attacked with howitzers the Turkish armed forces’ observation point in Idlib on Monday, according to a security official.No casualties were reported as the Turkish forces retaliated immediately, the official, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on talking to the media said.One of the five howitzer attacks hit 100-meter close to the observation point. The others were landed on civil-residences, the official said.On Oct. 12, the Turkish military started to cross into the region to establish observation points to monitor the cease-fire regime in the Idlib de-escalation zone.Idlib, which is located in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, faced intense attacks by the Assad regime after a vicious civil war broke out in 2011.Since, March 2015, Idlib was no longer under the control of the Assad regime and was dominated by military opposition groups...

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KILIS - Over the last eight months Turkey has rebuilt over 400 damaged schools in Syria’s Aleppo region, enabling 152,000 children to continue their education.After the Operation Euphrates Shield operation, Turkey’s National Education Ministry launched a study for a total of 458 schools in Aleppo’s

Jarabulus, Al-Bab, Cobanbey and Azez regions.Speaking to Anadolu Agency, the ministry’s Lifelong Education Director Ali Riza Altunel said: “I believe the number of students will increase to around 170,000 by the end of the first semester.”Altunel said the ministry...

ANKARA - At least 51 dismissed teachers were arrested in Turkish capital Ankara on Monday over suspected links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), a police source said.The teachers have been taken into custody as part of a probe launched by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, which issued an arrest

warrant for a total of 107 former teachers, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions over talking to the media.An operation is ongoing to arrest the remaining suspects.FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup bid, which left 250 people martyred...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been questioned by Israeli police for the sixth time since being named as a suspect last year amid allegations of corruption.

Netanyahu, who was reportedly grilled for four hours on Sunday, responded on Twitter.“I say in absolute confidence: there will be nothing because there is nothing.”

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National Education Ministry enables 152,000 children to return to school in Syria’s Aleppo

No casualties reported in attack on observation point in Idlib as Turkish forces retaliated

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By Diyar Guldogan

ANKARA - International actors involved in the Syria crisis are keenly waiting for an upcoming summit involving the presidents of Turkey, Russia and Iran.Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani will gather on Wednesday in Russia’s coastal city of Sochi to discuss the Syrian settlement process, particularly the joint work from the Astana talks.Turkey and Russia, together with Iran, are the guarantor countries which brokered a cease-fire in Syria in December 2016, leading to the Astana, Kazakhstan talks, which ran parallel to UN-backed discussions in Geneva to find a political solution to the six-year war.

But, what happened to make these three leaders, who back different sides in Syria’s civil war, come together for the first time? Is the timing of this summit a coincidence?Bashar al-Assad regime forces on Nov. 3 retook the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zour from the Daesh terrorist group in a Russian-backed operation.Moscow, an ally of Assad, has supported the regime since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, and deployed arms and troops in the war-torn country to conduct a campaign against Daesh, in cooperation with Iran.Turkey, having a 911-kilometer (560-mile) border with Syria, has long suffered from Daesh’s terror attacks in its...

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