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Syria is still unsafe for refugees return: UN investigators
Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, UN war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including ...
Syrian regime shelling kills four children in Idlib: Monitor
Regime shelling has killed four children in Syria’s last major opposition bastion in the northwest of the country, a Britain-based war monitor said Sunday.The artillery fire late Saturday hit a ...
Foreign extremists kill six pro-regime fighters in northwest Syria
Foreign extremists based in Syria’s last stronghold killed at least six regime fighters in an attack Friday in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said.Four Uzbek fighters were also killed ...
One dead, three injured in explosion on military bus in Syria’s Damascus
One person died and at least three were wounded in an explosion on a military bus in Damascus on Wednesday, the state news agency SANA said.The explosion happened in the bus while it was near the ...
Syria’s army steps up offensive in restive southern city of Daraa
Syrian troops stepped up shelling of an opposition enclave in the southern city of Daraa in a bid to assert control over an area that has defied state authority since it was retaken three years ago, ...
Syrian President Assad again tasks PM Arnous to head new cabinet
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tasked Prime Minister Hussein Arnous with forming a new government following an election in May that extended Assad’s two-decade-old presidency.For the latest ...
Ceasefire talks underway after deadly clashes in Syria’s Daraa: Monitor
Ceasefire negotiations have started in Syria’s southern province of Daraa after the deadliest flareup in three years killed 28 people, including 11 civilians, a war monitor said Friday.The clashes on ...
US hits out at Assad regime, ‘very concerned’ about latest violence in Syria’s Daraa
The US is “very concerned” about the recent uptick in violence in Syria’s southwestern Daraa following this week’s clashes between Assad regime forces and opposition fighters, a State Department ...
China builds ties with Syria helping Assad withstand US financial warfare
The visit that China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid to President Bashar al-Assad and other Syrian officials in Damascus this month was the latest sign of Beijing’s support for Syria’s government. By ...
Russia proposes six-month extension of Syria cross-border aid: UN sources
Russia submitted a draft resolution Thursday to its 14 UN Security Council partners providing for a six-month extension of the authorization of cross-border aid to Syria, UN and diplomatic sources ...
US, Ireland, Norway press for extension of cross-border aid into Syria’s Idlib
The United States, Ireland and Norway called on the UN Security Council Tuesday to extend an agreement to keep open a border crossing through which humanitarian aid reaches war-torn Syria’s opposition ...
At least eight murders in a month in Syria’s camp housing ISIS relatives: SDF
A camp in northeast Syria housing ISIS relatives saw at least eight murders last month, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Tuesday, the latest of dozens of such killings since January ...
Syria’s Kurds hand over 20 orphaned children of ISIS families to Russia
Syria’s Kurds on Saturday handed over 20 orphaned children born to parents linked to ISIS to a Russian delegation for repatriation.Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria hold thousands of foreigners ...
Hundreds form human chain to protest against blocking of Syria aid
Hundreds of humanitarian workers formed a human chain in northwest Syria Friday, urging the international community to keep open the only border crossing for aid into the opposition-held ...
Syria Kurds seek help in rehabilitating ISIS-linked minors
Syria’s Kurds Friday urged international help to set up rehabilitation centers for minors linked to ISIS, after charges they were holding “hundreds of children” in adult prisons.Acknowledging that ...
Family accuses Kurdish forces in northeast Syria of torturing son to death
A family has accused Kurdish forces in northeast Syria of torturing to death a detained relative, sparking a social media uproar despite the denial of Kurdish authorities.The accusations came from the ...
Political solution only way to resolve Syrian crisis: Saudi FM
A political solution is the only way to resolve the Syrian crisis in accordance with UN Security Resolution 2254 and other relevant international resolutions, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince ...
UN chief warns no Syria cross-border aid would be ‘devastating’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Wednesday to renew a cross-border aid operation into Syria for another year, warning that a failure to do so would be ...
Turkey hit targets in Syria’s Tel Rifat after hospital attack in nearby Afrin
Turkey’s military hit targets in the northern Syrian town of Tel Rifat in response to artillery attacks that killed 14 people and wounded several others in nearby Afrin, state-run Anadolu agency said ...