Syria

A French appeals court confirms a charge of complicity in crimes against humanity against the cement group, Lafarge, over alleged payoffs to the Daesh terror group during Syria's civil...

Women impacted by war and conflict are made to overcome a number of immense challenges. Rape and sexual violence, for example, are commonly used as weapons of war to...

The US issued a general licence on Thursday to exempt northern Syrian territories, including those controlled by the PKK's regional branch, the YPG, from American sanctions, Anadolu has reported....

The Mayor of the small Turkish city of Bolu has erected banners in both Arabic and Turkish, issuing a "last call" and order for Syrian refugees to return to...

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. "The situation today is phenomenally worse...

In 2015, Hasna Ait Boulahcen was labelled Europe's first female suicide bomber by the media, after she died in a blast in the Parisian suburbs three days after the...

A Jordanian security official has accused elements of the Syrian military of being involved in smuggling drugs across the Syrian border into Jordan, as the region's drug trafficking problem...

A newly-elected Lebanese Member of Parliament has come under heavy criticism over a tweet she posted in the past which called for the "genocide" of Syrians within Lebanon. Cynthia...

A Pentagon investigation into a US air strike that killed dozens of people in Syria in 2019 found that the initial review of the attack by the military was...

Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, yesterday attacked the Muslim Brotherhood and claimed their roots are linked to terrorist groups such as Daesh. In a speech, Allam claimed that the roots of...

The families of detainees in Syria's prison network are still having to resort to paying large sums of money to secure their release, despite the regime of Bashar Al-Assad...

A song titled "Glory to Russia" in Arabic caused Facebook moderators to shut down a Syrian government page, the local media reports. According to the report, the song which...

The United States has provided $219 million to its allies in Iraq and Syria in 2022, so far, in efforts to reportedly maintain the fight against the terror group,...

The United States has exempted territories in Syria run by the Kurdish militia the People's Protection Units (YPG) from wide-ranging sanctions, in a decision which neighbouring Turkey has condemned...

Syrian refugees to be placed under curfew during Lebanese elections set to take place 

Representatives of Austria and the Syrian education system met to discuss furthering scientific cooperation between them, as Vienna continues to be one of the outliers amongst its other European...

Syrians staying in Turkiye under temporary protection are being repatriated, Anadolu News Agency reports. Following Turkiye's anti-terror operations across its border in northern Syria, the establishment of safe areas...

The President of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, paid a surprise visit to Tehran last Sunday and, adding to its surprising nature, is the fact that he had rarely...

Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, yesterday called on the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian refugees in its territory. "Iraq hosts nearly 260,000 officially registered Syrians,...

Save the Children has warned that the $6.7 billion pledged by the international community at the sixth annual Brussels Conference for Syria is "woefully inadequate and falls far short...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said yesterday that Turkey's decision to build dams which would harm the Iranian people and negatively affect water flowing into the Islamic Republic...

The recent exposure of another horrific massacre committed by forces loyal to the Syrian regime made the headlines momentarily before slipping from view. The massacre in Tadamon took place...

The United States has imposed sanctions on an alleged international network of financial facilitators for Daesh, with a stated aim to cut off funds for the terror group and...

The UN Special Envoy for Syria said that the regime and opposition sides negotiating a Constitution are "far from a political solution" to end the 11 years of conflict,...

Qatar, on Tuesday, pledged $50 million to support the Syrian people during a conference held in Brussels on Syria's future, Anadolu News Agency reports. The two-day event was organised...

In Turkey, the release of the short film, "Silent Invasion", which was commissioned by the Head of one of the opposition parties, the Victory Party, Umit Ozdag, circulated widely...

Syrian human rights organisations have called on the United Nations to investigate the Tadamon massacre in Damascus in 2013 carried out by members of the regime's Branch 227. "We...

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A Syrian refugee in Denmark is set to be deported back to Syria, despite being wanted by and having his fingers amputated by Bashar Al-Assad's regime. In a Twitter...

More than 6.5 million children in Syria are in need of aid, the highest ever recorded since the beginning of the civil war in the country, 11 years ago,...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited his closest regional ally Iran on Sunday for talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during which both leaders called for stronger ties between Tehran and...

Russia has been using mercenaries from Libya and Syria in its military campaign in Ukraine, US Defence Department documents have shown earlier this week. According to a transcript published...