HMEIMIM, Syria (AA) – Activity at Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base in Syria, which played a pivotal role in altering the trajectory of the civil war in late 2015, has reportedly come to a near standstill. Following the summer of 2015, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad faced significant losses to opposition forces, Moscow responded to […...
ANKARA (AA) – Iraq has said that it is sending back Syrian army soldiers of the ousted Assad regime to their country. Interior Ministry spokesman Miqdad Miri said that the process of returning the Syrian soldiers to their country will be carried out after coordination with Syrian authorities. According to media reports, over 3,000 Syrian [&hel...
CAIRO (AA) – The Arab Parliament Saturday demanded international action to end Israel’s grab of Syrian territories. During a speech while presiding over a parliamentary session at the headquarters of the Arab League’s General Secretariat in Cairo, Muhammad Al-Yamahi, the president of the Arab Parliament, urged all Syrian parties to...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Arab League has condemned the Israeli grab of the buffer zone in the Syrian territory, saying that the Arab countries have approached the Security Council to hold a session on Israel’s actions against Syria. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that under the initiative of Egypt and other Arab [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – Following the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, families who identified their loved ones in photographs taken by a whistleblower codenamed “Caesar” showing victims tortured to death by the regime hope that legal proceedings will ensure justice for the perpetrators. With the collapse of the tyrannical Ba’ath regi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A pair of lawmakers in the House of Representatives urged the Biden administration Wednesday to implement a “deliberate and phased” lifting of sweeping sanctions on Syria after the end of Assad family rule. Reps. Joe Wilson and Brendan Boyle said in a letter to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that th...
The United States has launched airstrikes across Syria, coinciding with significant moves by Israel in the region. Israel has bombed multiple sites and established control over a segment of Syrian territory. The U.S. has roughly 900 troops on the ground in Syria. Israel has conducted strikes on 10 arms depots and military facilities in areas [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US strongly supports a peaceful transition of power to an “accountable” government in Syria through an inclusive Syrian-led process, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. “During this transitional period, the Syrian people have every right to demand the preservation of state institutions, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says that recent developments in Syria cannot be attributed solely to external intervention, but they stem from “unresolved” problems over the past 13 years. Speaking at a news conference alongside his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, who is on an official visit to Türk...
ALEPPO, Syria (AA) – Armed groups opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime have seized control of much of Aleppo’s city center. The groups, which entered Aleppo’s city center on Friday, seized control of many neighborhoods in the area. After reaching Sadallah al-Jabiri Square, a central location in the city, the groups ad...
