The UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs urged the Security Council on Wednesday to put an end to the impunity enjoyed by Syria in its use of chemical weapons. Izumi...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi to expel members of the Syria Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, from Jordan, during a...
There is no alternative to the two-state solution and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, announced yesterday. Lavrov's remarks came during a joint...
Over 60 Syrian nationals were arrested and illegally moved from northeast Syria to Turkey to face trial on serious charges that could lead to life in prison by Turkey and...
Washington will renew its efforts to reach a political settlement for the civil war in Syria, spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, said on Tuesday. In a...
The World Heath Organization is deploying teams across Syria for a vaccination programme that will be rolled out both in government-held areas and territory outside state control, perhaps as...
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian army have reached an agreement to end the sieges imposed on the cities of Qamishli and Hasakah in north-east Syria,...
During political-security discussions, Chief of General Staff of Israeli Aviv Kochavi has agreed on forming a defence alliance with the US, Arabs48 reported yesterday. The Arab site reported Haaretz saying that Kochavi agreed...
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has ordered his government to repay the loans taken out by soldiers who were wounded in battle prior to 31 December 2020. The order includes...
Lebanon's army said on Monday it had arrested 18 people, some Lebanese and others Syrian, with links to Daesh, Reuters reports. The arrests came in "field operations" that took place...
Refugee camps in Syria's northwestern Afrin province flooded due to heavy rain, causing tents to become unusable, Anadolu reported. Heavy rain hit the area on Saturday night, gaining momentum yesterday and...
At least 10 people were killed and 24 others wounded in terror attacks in the northern al-Bab and Azaz towns in Syria on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. A bomb mounted on...
At least six civilians were killed in a bomb blast in northwestern Syria on Saturday, according to local sources, reports Anadolu Agency. Some 25 more people were wounded when...
The UN special envoy on Syria said Friday this week's peace talks were a disappointment, Anadolu Agency reported. "To me, it has been a disappointment," Geir Pedersen, the UN Syria envoy, who was...
Turkey, Iran, and Russia yesterday urged the Syrian Constitutional Committee to seek compromise and consensus among the sides to the decade-long civil war, a statement released by the trio...
A report by the global watchdog group Transparency International has ranked Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as among the most corrupt states in the world in a list of 180 countries.
An ancient port believed to date back to the Roman-era has been discovered off the Syrian coast of Tartus, according to an announcement by Dmitry Tatarkov, the director of...
The fifth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee meetings are continuing for the third consecutive day in the Swiss city of Geneva, local media reported yesterday. The third day's...
Syrian businessman George Haswani denied any links on Wednesday to last year's explosion that killed 200 people in Beirut, telling Reuters that he knew nothing about a company linked...
Ukraine will ban flights over its territory by 13 Russian regional air carriers and Syrian Cham Wings Airlines for three years, the government said on Wednesday, citing flights by...
The US should seek Turkey's help to defeat Daesh in Syria, former US envoy to Damascus Robert Ford wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine. In the article, Ford said Ankara has "clear incentives to...
Former US Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is producing a television drama in support of the Kurdish militias in Syria. Clinton is being joined in the...
A Syrian mother who lost her sight following a barrel bomb explosion at the hands of the Assad regime has been able to see her sons for the first...
Over half of children in Syria remain deprived of an education due to a decade of the ongoing civil war, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has revealed. There are...
"Pioneering" American entrepreneurs have waded into the "murky" oil business in Syria, according to a report by the Financial Times which investigated the US oil firm Delta Crescent Energy (DCE). The...
Filipina workers and maids have been trafficked from the United Arab Emirates to Syria where they have been subjected to assault, rape, abuse and the withholding of their wages,...
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January 25, 2021 |
Rania Mostafa The Arab Spring revolutions ended where they began. They set out to fight dictatorships, scored some victories and were then cannibalised by hypocrites. After news presenters spoke about revolutions...
Turkish security forces on Saturday arrested at least 72 suspected human traffickers in operations based in the country's commercial hub Istanbul, Anadolu Agency reports. Police arrested 72 suspects after...
The UN Special Envoy on Syria said Friday that issues to be discussed in a new round of political talks could not be sorted out by Syrians alone and...
The UN said on Friday that 12 people were killed in the first half of January at the Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. Jens Laerke, a spokesman...
The United Nations has reported the murder of 12 inhabitants of a displacement camp for Daesh family members, highlighting the "deteriorating security conditions" in the camps of northeast Syria....
British, American and Israeli researchers have identified more than 2,000 "nationally and important Jewish heritage sites" in Europe, Iraq and Syria that have been added to Western military protection...