Syria

Private Syrian airline Cham Wings resumes flights to the UAE for the first time since 2011

Syria's Sports Federation has lodged a complaint against basketball's world governing body, FIBA, after host nation, Kazakhstan, played the Iranian national anthem instead of the Syrian one, ahead of...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has hinted at the possibility of Syria's return to the Arab League during the next Arab summit in March, Anadolu Agency reports. "Syria is supposed...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

A kung fu academy in opposition held Idlib instructs up to 100 children between the ages of 8 and 15 in the Chinese fighting sport

The European Parliament has today approved a further funding program for Syrian refugees in Turkey, as the country continues to host around 4 million of them. EU lawmakers approved...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday called for Jordan to immediately release Syrian journalist, Ibrahim Awwad, who was arrested last week and is now threatened with being sent back...

Kurdish-led militias in north-east Syria have reportedly released former fighters of the terror group Daesh for large sums of money, in a "reconciliation" process revealed by the Guardian newspaper....

At least 29,661 children have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian revolution and conflict in 2011, with 181 tortured to death and 5,036 still detained...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar announced on Thursday that military operations in Syria would continue until the neutralisation of the last "terrorist", Aram News reported. Akar confirmed that his...

An investigation by Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed found many Syrians detained in Saudi Arabia are choosing to remain in jail over returning to Syria

Syrian doctor, Kassam Shahadah, settled in Poland as a war refugee three years ago and now volunteers on its border to help desperate Middle East migrants trying to enter...

Syrian musician Omar Souleyman was released from custody in Turkey today, his manager and a local security source said, two days after he was detained for alleged links to...

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution acknowledging that $856.4 million in damage was caused by an oil slick in 2006 and calling for Israel to assume responsibility by...

The visit of the Emirati foreign minister to Damascus opened the door wide open to analysis and speculation. While the media consider this visit a recognition by the "coalition...

The trial of two search and rescue volunteers opened in Greece today, with the pair facing up to 25 years in jail. Amnesty International has described the proceedings as...

The Turkish state aid agency on Thursday inaugurated special classrooms set up for physically disabled children in an opposition-held area of northern Syria, Anadolu News Agency reports. Established in...

Nineteen Syrian human rights and monitoring organisations have raised concerns about the resumption of cooperation between the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and the Syrian regime. The decision, say...

The social media company Meta – previously known as Facebook – has taken down four malicious cyber hacking networks operating in Syria and Pakistan, which targeted Syrian opposition elements...

From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the main fortress of Arab reactionism. This was due...

Turkish police are reported to have detained internationally-renowned Syrian musician Omar Souleyman yesterday over alleged links with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to AFP, Souleyman, whose real...

A family member of Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, has admitted that the Syrian military has been using barrel bombs against civilians and the opposition throughout the ongoing decade-long conflict,...

Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad on Monday abolished the position of Mufti of the Republic. No reasons were given for the decision, however, in so doing, Al-Assad strengthened the powers...

Turkey has allegedly suspended its plans to launch a new military operation in northern Syria against Kurdish militias, following pressure against it from Russia and the United States. According...

Anguished relatives of migrants trapped in the forest along the Poland-Belarus border are arriving in Polish border towns in the hope of helping their loved ones escape as violence...

On a dark November evening in a small town in north-east Poland, men lower the wooden coffin of a young migrant into a freshly dug grave to the sound...

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on four ministers recently appointed to the Syrian government, blaming them for playing a role in the continued repression of civilians in the...

The directors of Saudi Arabia's and Syria's intelligence agencies are reported to have met in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, signalling greater cooperation between the two. According to Egyptian media...

US officials have been accused of covering up alleged war crimes following a 2019 bombing raid in Syria which killed at least 80 people, the vast majority of whom...

Syria's private Cham Wings Airlines, on Saturday, suspended flights between Damascus and the Belarus capital of Minsk because of the "critical circumstances" along the Belarus-Poland border where thousands of migrants have been trying to...

Russia has deployed the S-300 anti-missile defence system in Tabqa airport in the Governorate of Raqqa, northeastern Syria, Russian ANNA News reported on Saturday. The agency said Moscow deployed the defence...

The Israeli army has started wide scale military drills in several parts of the country aimed at maintaining combat preparedness, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday. According to the news site, the Israeli...