INTERNATIONAL Government rocket attacks targeting camps for displaced people in rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 10 civilians and wounded more than 77 on Sunday, according to both the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The crowded area of the camps in northern Syria was targeted[…]
Russia and Jordan agreed to ramp up coordination on Syria during a visit Thursday by Russia’s top diplomat to the Hashemite Kingdom, underscoring how even one of the US’s closest allies in the region has continued to engage with Russia despite the war in Ukraine. Syria is a top concern for the resource-poor kingdom, whose budget[…]
Turkish forces have begun establishing a new military post in the vicinity of Sarjila village in the Jabal Al-Zawiya area in the southern Idlib countryside. Local military sources said the military post is located in the vicinity of Sarjila village, east of the town of Al-Bara, near the contact lines[…]
INTERNATIONAL Several buses transported Syrian refugee families to Syria from different areas in Lebanon on Wednesday morning, as part of a government repatriation scheme revived earlier this month, local media reported. Convoys from Nabatieh, Tripoli, and Arsal, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, carried around 750 refugees to border crossings despite concerns from rights groups that the policy may have[…]
INTERNATIONAL The Syrian regime yesterday cancelled a scheduled meeting with Lebanese officials to discuss the delineation of their sea boundaries. According to Reuters, this came in a letter sent by the Syrian government to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry yesterday, saying “the time was not right” for such a visit. The cancellation[…]
INTERNATIONAL When protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, Samer al-Kurdi, a footballer for Al-Karamah in the central city of Homs, did not know he would lose everything. Kurdi left Al-Karamah, which translates to “dignity”, to join the demonstrations and demand dignity. Abd al-Basset al-Sarout, the club’s goalkeeper, joined him[…]
INTERNATIONAL Three people have been killed when Turkish raids struck outposts in northern Syrian operated by government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to a British-based war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three killed were wearing Syrian army uniform. Several other fighters were[…]
INTERNATIONAL The decision by Hamas, the Palestinian movement that rules the Gaza Strip, to restore relations with the Syrian government after more than 10 years of estrangement has sparked controversy. After initially remaining neutral in the country’s civil war, Hamas eventually voiced its support for the Syrian opposition in 2012 and broke[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pushed against a possible Turkish military operation in northern Syria in a meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, saying it would be detrimental for Turkey and the region, according to Iranian state media reports. The Turkish military has been sending reinforcements to northern Syria, especially areas near the[…]
INTERNATIONAL The United Nations said a new drive to locate thousands of people missing in Syria’s war is set to be announced, as newly released statistics shed light on the scale of death in the conflict and in Syrian prisons. Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of[…]
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