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Syria regime shelling kills 4 schoolchildren in besieged town

Damascus - Muslimchronicle

At least four shoolchildren were among eight people killed in Syrian regime shelling in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire in the hunger-hit rebel enclave outside Damascus. The bombardment came as a fresh round of peace talks to end Syria's six-year war entered a second day in the Kazakh capital Astana. Government fire on the besieged region has beenRead more

Fresh Syria peace talks open in Kazakh capital

Moscow - Muslimchronicle

A fresh round of peace talks seeking to end Syria’s war began in the Kazakh capital Astana on Monday, as part of a Moscow-led push supported by Iran and opposition-backer Turkey. The latest round of talks began days after Daesh was forced out of its de facto capital Raqqa in northern Syria. Speaking to journalists after the first day ofRead more

Next round of Syria talks at end October

Astana - Muslimchronicle

Fresh talks on the Syria conflict will be held in Astana at the end of the month, Kazakhstan said Thursday, as part of a Moscow-led push to end the six-year conflict. The two-day meeting, which will take place on October 30-31 in the Kazakh capital, will be the seventh round of negotiations this year that are co-sponsored by regime backersRead more

Kazakh president says anyone joining IS to lose citizenship

Astana - Arab Today

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said Kazakhs who join the Islamic State (IS) group will be deprived of their citizenship, MIR international TV channel reported Tuesday. "This is a compulsory measure. First of all, it is necessary to take such measures to assure that people do not join the ranks of terrorists. We tried to conduct preventive work with thoseRead more

Kazakh capital is growing real roots

Moscow - Arab today

The Astana Opera towers over a windswept plaza in this capital on the Central Asian steppe, a near-copy of Moscow’s neoclassical Bolshoi Theater, right down to the sculpture of galloping horses on the roof. Across a broad avenue stands the tilted, irregular cone of Khan Shatyr, a shopping mall designed as the world’s largest tent. Its roof is supported byRead more

Wozniacki gets back to work with Dubai win

Dubai - Arab Today

Two days afer playing the Doha final, Caroline Wozniacki plunged straight back to work on Monday at the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-2, 7-5 first-round defeat of Darya Kasatkina. Former WTA world number one Wozniacki had only limited turnaround time to adjust to what many feel is a faster court in the emirate compared to last week's venue. "UnfortunatelyRead more