Qamishli, Syria – AFP A drone strike Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed more than 60 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming “terrorist organisations” for the attack in government-held Homs. Separately, in the war-torn country’s Kurdish-held northeast, Turkish strikes on military and infrastructur...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – One child was killed and seven people were injured in regime shelling on Wednesday in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province, according to local sources. The attack targeted the town of Sarmin by regime forces stationed in Saraqib, southwest of Idlib, the sources said. Three children and two women were among those injure...
Sarmin, Syria – AFP Two civilians were killed on Saturday after government forces fired rockets that struck a displaced persons’ camp in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, rescuers and an AFP correspondent said. “Two civilians were killed (an elderly man and a woman) and two others were injured (a child in critical condition...
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 ...
GENEVA (AA) – The present stalemate in Syria is intolerable, as the country remains unsafe for refugees to return, said the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria on Friday, urging parties to allow in humanitarian aid. “There are no ultimate winners, and the country remains one that is unsafe for [&helli...
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 […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday said it struck two structures used by the Syrian regime army in the Ayn al-Tineh area in the Golan Heights. In a statement, the military said the strike was carried out after soldiers identified the “two structures in the area of the security zone” on Wednesday. “These […]
NEW YORK (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the resumption of humanitarian aid through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into northwest Syria on Tuesday after a two-and-a-half-month hiatus. “Though our humanitarian operations have continued to assist millions of people in need in northwest Syria, the Bab al-Hawa crossing...
GENEVA (AA) – Syrians continue to suffer from fighting, extremely severe economic deterioration and persistent human rights violations and abuses, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Tuesday. “Before Syria plunges deeper into escalating violence and economic decline, we call on the key actors to cease attacks on civilians...
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...
