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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets the media after his arrival at Tegel airport for an official visit to Germany to Berlin, the capital, on Thursday 27 September 2018. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber)
BEIRUT – Latest news about Syria (local time):
7:05 p.m.
A spokesman for a Russian electronic warfare production company says their deployment to Syria will help protect the country's air defenses and repel enemy air attacks.
Vladimir Mikheyev, of Radioelectronics Technologies, said Friday in a statement from the Interfax news agency that the electronic countermeasures of Krasukha and Zhitel would place Syrian air defenses under an "electronic umbrella".
Russia announced this week that it would provide the Syrian government with long – range S – 300 missiles by two weeks ago. The announcement was made after the destruction of a Russian aircraft by Syrian forces following an Israeli air strike, a friendly fire incident that fueled regional tensions.
Moscow also said it would start using electronic countermeasures to block any aircraft attempting to launch attacks off the Syrian coast.
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5:15 p.m.
Syrian opposition activists have said al-Qaeda-linked fighters prevented protesters from entering a key northwestern town controlled by extremists.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights based in Britain said that members of Horas al-Din, Arab, guardians of religion, and other activists prevented the protesters to enter Jisr al-Shughour.
A Syria-based activist said armed insurgents waving black banners marched towards the protesters and forced them to leave.
The activist, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, says activists consider pro-democracy protesters to be heretics.
Thousands of people have protested every Friday in recent weeks against a government offensive in Idlib province.
The attack was avoided last week in an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey to set up a demilitarized zone.
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10:45
The Turkish President accuses the United States of failing to respect an agreement providing for the withdrawal of a US-backed Kurdish Syrian militia in a city liberated from militants of the Islamic State in the north of the country. Syria.
Washington and Ankara reached agreement in June to defuse tensions. He calls the militia to leave the strategic city of Manbij and join the United States. patrols there.
Ankara considers the protection units of the Kurdish people or the YPG militia as a terrorist group that is part of a Kurdish insurgency in Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the United States had not respected the "road map" agreed for Manbij.
Erdogan said that "America has not followed the roadmap and schedule of Manbij.The (YPG) has not left the region".
His comments were published in the Hurriyet newspaper on Friday.
