ISTANBUL (AA) — Asma Assad, the British-born wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, has been effectively barred from returning to the UK after her British passport expired, according to local media. Without a valid passport, Asma Assad cannot return to her hometown London, according to the Sunday Times. Moscow confirmed earlier this mon...
WASHINGTON (AA) — The head of the US-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) alleges that former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden are complicit in the crimes against humanity committed by the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. “It is a shame that both the Obama administration officials and the Biden administration off...
ALEPPO/DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) — Protests in Syria, triggered by claims of damage to a religious shrine, were the result of provocations by elements of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime, the country’s interim government said. Protests erupted in several areas, including Hama, Homs, Latakia, Tartus, and the towns of Jableh and Banyas, after video...
LATAKIA, Syria (AA) – At least 14 people have been killed and 10 injured in an ambush by remnants of Syria’s ousted Bashar Assad regime. Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel Rahman told state news agency SANA that forces aligned with the former Assad regime attacked security personnel in rural areas of Tartus province. He said “14 [&he...
GENEVA (AA) – UN special rapporteur Alice Jill Edwards said ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should face justice for crimes committed in Syria, identifying the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the most appropriate venue for his trial. Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatm...
GAZIANTEP, Türkiye (AA) – Since 2017, more than 4,000 families have sought help from an association based in southeastern Türkiye to locate relatives taken away by Syria’s Assad regime. Families whose relatives were lost have been applying to the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison in the border province of Gaziant...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Syrian armed factions have agreed to dissolve themselves and merge under the Defense Ministry, the state media has said. The state news agency SANA said the move was finalized during a meeting in Damascus between the head of Syria’s new administration Ahmed al-Sharaa and representatives of the revolutionary factions in the coun...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A UK-based Syrian rights group has said that it has compiled a list of around 16,200 members of the ousted Assad regime accused of crimes against civilians. “The ousted Assad regime committed serious violations that affected millions of Syrians,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement. The ri...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Qatar will have an active and purposeful role in Syria’s reconstruction and development process, said Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of Syria’s new administration. He was speaking at a press conference after meeting in Damascus with Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Al-Khulaifi, the first official Qatari...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights office has underscored its commitment and that of other international mechanisms to ensure accountability for human rights violations in Syria. “The High Commissioner (Volker Turk) has stated our Office and other international mechanisms – including the Independent International Commission of Inqui...
