Three Syrian businessmen have been linked to the purchase of the explosives that caused the Beirut blast last August. The link has been made in a documentary aired by...
Militants belonging to the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) are reported to have opened fire on children who attempted to flee after they were recruited forcibly by the militia...
France has repatriated seven children of Daesh fighters from north-east Syria. This is the latest effort by a European country to return its nationals following years of reluctance to...
Syria has called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and take "strict and immediate" action against Israel's repeated air strikes on its neighbour. "The Israeli aggression...
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January 14, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When supporters of the soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in Washington DC last week, many things were revealed that day. We saw the lengths that Trump...
A refugee who arrived in the UK after fleeing Iraq has said that 'life in Hull is the same as in Iraq'
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January 14, 2021 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri On 20 January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. This will end four years of Donald Trump's foreign policy that has...
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US A report published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli raids in Syria last night "rose to at...
In recent months, the areas controlled by the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor (eastern Syria) have witnessed assassinations of notables and respected personalities on...
The Assad regime claimed that Israel carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in Syria's eastern Deir-Ez-Zor province, state media reported early Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The Israeli...
The US special envoy to Syria, Joel Rayburn, is expected to step down when President-elect Joe Biden takes office, UAE news outlet the National has reported. Rayburn is only...
The World Health Organisation has used an aircraft belonging to the Syrian regime to deliver medical supplies to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, making it the latest of...
The United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash has expressed his country's desire to normalise and re-establish relations with Turkey, following tensions between the two. Gargash made the remarks in an interview...
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of the late Iranian president has criticised her country's intervention in Syria, saying it left 500,000 Syrians dead. In an interview with the Iranian Ensaf...
Journalists in Syria, trying to document crimes committed by the Bashar al-Assad regime, are routinely killed or injured, Anadolu reports. The Arab country is undergoing a civil war since...
Middle Eastern passports have ranked low on this year's Henley Passport Index, which ranks the travel documents according to the number of destinations their holders can travel to without obtaining a...
The Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) militia has ended its three-day siege of a military base in the regime-held town of Qamishli in Syria following Russian intervention, Anadolu has...
A Syrian journalist has been shot by unidentified gunmen in the north-west province of Aleppo. The attack took place on Wednesday evening. Bahaa Al-Halabi works as a correspondent for...
Police in Istanbul have detained three suspects on suspicion of kidnapping a Syrian child for ransom, security sources said yesterday. The suspects, also Syrian, demanded $8,000 from the child's...
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January 8, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed How the mighty have fallen. In the space of a few months, Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has gone from the dizzy heights of...
Israeli occupation warplanes have struck sites where the militias of the Bashar Al-Assad regime and Iran are stationed, south of the capital of Damascus and near the governorate of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that when making decisions regarding Syria, his priority is serving Russian interests first, local media reported. "When making decisions about the Syrian track,...
Egyptian authorities seized a shipment of drugs estimated to be worth $39 million after discovering a container which was transiting through Port Said with over eight million fenethylline hydrochloride...
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January 7, 2021 |
Saad Kiwan The Middle East is going through a dangerous transitional phase, in which more than one arena may explode at any moment, from Syria to Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and...
The United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said the international community cannot yet have full confidence that Syria's chemical weapons programme has been eliminated. Speaking before...
The Syrian opposition militant group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham has released a media activist after detaining her for four months and handing her a death sentence. The arrest of Nour...

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January 6, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein Torture is an evil as old as conflict, and there is much more to it than the sort of thing usually seen in the movies. It is, sadly, a...
More than 30 people were killed in assassinations and explosions carried out by the Assad regime in the Daraa province of Syria since early December 2020, the Syrian Observatory...
A large-scale money extortion system is rampant within Syria's vast prison network in which the families of detainees are forced to pay guards and officials to visit or secure...
This happened over 4 months after the 4 August explosion in Beirut's port when 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ignited and exploded.
The United States' Special Envoy to Syria Joel Rayburn is set to travel to the United Arab Emirates and Jordan for discussions on the ongoing Syrian conflict, a statement by...
The Syrian National Coalition yesterday welcomed Britain's announcement that it was fully committed to holding to account officials responsible for war crimes in Syria. Earlier on Friday, Britain's Foreign,...