GENEVA (AA) – Many Syrians who fled their country’s war face gross human rights violations and abuses on their return home, a report by the UN Human Rights Office has shown. “This report paints an alarming picture of the suffering of returnees, in particular women, amid the increasing number of deportations of Syrians from other [&hellip...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – At least three civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian regime forces in northwestern Syria, sources said Thursday. The Syrian army carried out attacks in Idlib city center and villages in Jabal az Zawiyah Mountains using ground-to-ground weapons. At least two others were wounded in the attacks, according to hospita...
Damascus, Syria — AFP Israeli strikes have knocked Syria’s two main airports out of service, Syrian state media said, in the first such attack since a weekend Hamas assault on Israel triggered fierce fighting. Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the airports in the capital Damascus and northern city A...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China and Syria have upgraded their bilateral relations to a “strategic partnership” during a summit meeting between Xi Jinping and his visiting Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, Beijing said. Hua Chunying, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said the establishment of the strategic partnership “will be a ...
Hangzhou, China — AFP Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began his first official trip to China in almost two decades, with Beijing saying the visit will take ties to a “new level” as the Arab leader seeks financial support to help rebuild the devastated country after a long, brutal civil war. China is one of only […]
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP More than 2,000 people marched in the government-held city of Sweida in southern Syria in an anti-regime protest movement that is getting stronger, an activist and a witness said. The protests in Sweida province, the heartland of the country’s Druze minority, began after President Bashar al-Assad’s gover...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – The Syrian army, Iran-backed groups and Russia carried out over 1,400 attacks in Syria’s Idlib and its surrounding areas over the past week, forcing more than 6,000 civilians to flee their homes. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, the Syrian army and Iran-backed groups targeted villages in the so...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Iranian soldier from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria, Iranian media reported on Monday. The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the soldier as Yahya Rostami, who was killed on August 31. The agency, however, did not give further details about the circumstances of his death. Iran, which...
Afrin, Syria — AFP Syrians in the country’s rebel-held north marked the 10-year anniversary on Monday of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people near Damascus — one of the conflict’s many horrors that went unpunished. “I was in such shock. I smelt death,” said paramedic Mohammed Suleiman from Zamalka ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The images of the chemical attack on a formerly rebel-held Damascus suburb “still haunt us to this day,” the White House stated as it marked the 10-year anniversary of the eastern Ghouta attack. “The horrifying images from that early morning still haunt us to this day, and they drive this Administratio...
