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Türkiye’s Erdogan Criticizes Syria Over Normalization 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address media after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on August 21, 2023. (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address media after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on August 21, 2023. (AFP)
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Türkiye’s Erdogan Criticizes Syria Over Normalization 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address media after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on August 21, 2023. (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address media after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on August 21, 2023. (AFP)

President Recept Tayyip Erdogan said Syria was not taking a positive approach towards normalization with Türkiye, with President Bashar al-Assad watching from afar and not taking a role, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters on his plane returning from talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin, Erdogan was cited as saying normalization was possible if there was progress on the fight against terrorism, on the safe and voluntary return of refugees and on the political process.

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UN Deeply Concerned as 45 Lebanese Soldiers Killed amid Israel-Hezbollah War

A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
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UN Deeply Concerned as 45 Lebanese Soldiers Killed amid Israel-Hezbollah War

A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)

The United Nations said it is “deeply alarmed” by escalating hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, and is concerned at numerous attacks on the Lebanese Armed Forces which says 45 of its soldiers have lost their lives.

The Lebanese military has declared its “non-involvement” in the ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday.

Dujarric said UN special coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert was in Israel on Monday for talks with senior Israeli officials on the urgent need for a ceasefire and implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The resolution calls for the Lebanese army to deploy in southern Lebanon bordering Israel, territory still controlled by Hezbollah.

Dujarric said Lebanese authorities report that an average of 250 people have been killed every week in November, bringing the death toll to more than 3,700 since October 2023.