Turkiye will soon launch a new military operation along its southern borders to combat terrorism threats to these regions, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday, Turkish daily newspaper Daily Sabah reports. According to the report, the new operation will resume efforts to create 30-kilometre (18.6-mile) wide safe zones along Turkiye’s border with[…]
INTERNATIONAL More than a dozen prominent Syrian civil society groups have urged the United States envoy to the United Nations to launch an investigation into the 2013 killing of 41 civilians in the neighbourhood of Tadamon in Syria’s capital Damascus. “We are writing to demand immediate action to address this massacre, which[…]
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged the deaths of at least 1,056 Syrians who were forcibly disappeared by the security services over the years, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). In a 14-page report published by the rights group, it asserted that the regime unintentionally gave evidence[…]
The displacement camps in the north-western Syrian province of Idlib are suffering from the worsening economic and food crises this Ramadan, with residents barely able to purchase basic essentials due to a mixture of high prices and food shortages. According to the Turkish newspaper Anadolu Agency, Syrians who are displaced from[…]
Syrian air defences confronted an “Israeli air aggression” on Saturday in the country’s central region, Syrian state media reported, Reuters reported. “At 6:45 pm today, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the north of Lebanon, targeting some points in the central region,” state media said citing a military source. Israel’s military[…]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday submitted his application to run for re-election next month, in a presidential vote decried by Western governments and political opponents as a sham. The scheduled May 26 polls will be the second since Syria’s war broke out in 2011, the first elections taking place[…]
Four NGOs have announced they have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government, including President Bashar al-Assad, over chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017. In the complaint filed with Swedish police, the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Civil Rights Defenders,[…]
Syria is set to hold a presidential election on May 26, the country’s second in the shadow of civil war, seen as likely to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power. The announcement was made by the parliament speaker on Sunday. Syrians abroad will be “able to vote at embassies” on[…]
At least six civilians were killed and several medics injured when a hospital west of Aleppo was shelled by Syrian forces on Sunday, medics and rescuers have said. Sources on the ground told Middle East Eye that six people had died, while Reuters put the death toll at seven. They[…]
As Syria marks nearly 10 years since the beginning of its bloody conflict, a new report shows the widespread and devastating impact a decade of fighting has had on health care facilities, health workers and on civilians. The report, published on Wednesday by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and a[…]
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