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Hundreds rally in Syria’s Sweida, marking biggest protest in weeks
Hundreds of Syrians protested Friday in the government-held southern city of Sweida, the biggest in a wave of intensifying demonstrations spurred by economic hardship, activists and witnesses told AFP ...
Protests erupt in Syria’s Druze city over fuel hikes
Hundreds of Syrians burnt tires, blocked roads, and chanted anti-government slogans in the mainly ethnic Druze city of Sweida on Thursday to protest against worsening economic conditions and this ...
ISIS claims attack that kills 23 Syria regime soldiers
At least 23 Syrian regime soldiers were killed in an attack on a military bus in the conflict-torn country’s east blamed on ISIS, a war monitor said Friday.ISIS, which operates sleeper cells in lands ...
Weigh ‘carefully’ efforts to engage Assad regime, Blinken tells Egypt
The top US diplomat cautioned Egypt to “carefully” examine whether its efforts to engage the Assad regime benefited the Syrian people.Egypt is among the several Arab and Gulf states that have ...
US floats sanctions warning as Arab isolation of Syria nears end
“We have also made clear that the core architecture of our sanctions remains firmly in place,” a White House National Security Council official told Al Arabiya English.
Russia protests about ‘provocative actions’ by US forces in Syria
Russia has protested to the American-led coalition against ISIS about “provocative actions” by US armed forces in Syria, Tass news agency said on Friday.Tass cited a senior Russian official as saying ...
Children in quake-hit Syria face ‘catastrophic threats’
The United Nations warned Thursday of grave risks to 3.7 million children in parts of war-wracked Syria affected by last month’s earthquake, as the UN children’s agency chief visited the country.For ...
Eight truffle-hunters dead in Syria landmine blast: Monitor
Eight truffle-hunters were killed and more than 30 injured in eastern Syria when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a landmine, a war monitor said Thursday.“Eight citizens were killed and at least ...
Drone strike in Syria kills 2 al-Qaeda-linked operatives
A drone strike believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition in northwestern Syria on Friday killed two operatives with an al-Qaeda-linked group, Syrian opposition activists said.The two ...
Syria ‘totally rejects’ watchdog report of 2018 chemical attack
Syria on Saturday rejected a report by the global chemical weapons watchdog that has blamed Damascus for a 2018 chlorine attack which killed 43 people, calling it “false.”“Syria totally rejects the ...
US says doesn’t support normalization with Syria’s Assad after UAE FM visit
The top Republican senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee slammed the Emirati foreign minister’s trip and said it risked sanctions and harming the UAE’s reputation.
Syria opposition uneasy after Turkish, Syrian defense ministers meet
Syria’s political and armed opposition are urging their decade-long backer Turkey to reaffirm its support for their cause, after the highest-level talks in public between Ankara and the Damascus ...
Syria records lowest annual death toll since war began: Monitor
At least 3,825 people have died in Syria’s war in 2022, the lowest yearly toll since the start of the conflict more than a decade ago, a war monitor said Saturday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory ...
Syrian pound hits new low on black market amid fuel crisis
Syria’s nose-diving pound hit a new record low Saturday against the dollar on the black market, according to websites monitoring the exchange rate, as the country faces severe fuel shortages.The ...
UN calls for ‘vital’ aid to Syria during winter
The United Nations on Thursday called for “life-saving” funding to help six million people in Syria survive winter, after more than 11 years of devastating conflict.The relief money is “urgently ...
Syria provides ‘drone lab’ for warring parties: Report
Syria’s 11-year war has provided a “drone laboratory” to countries, militants and other armed groups -- with some weapons trialed and later deployed in Ukraine -- peace monitors said Tuesday.Six ...
Netherlands to repatriate 40 ISIS-linked women and children from Syrian camps
Twelve women and 28 children will be repatriated to the Netherlands from detention camps in northern Syria, the Dutch government announced on Tuesday, making the country’s largest group yet to be ...
Nearly 60 killed in 10 days of inter-faction fighting in northern Syria: Monitor
More than a week of inter-faction fighting in Syria’s Turkish-held north has killed 58 people, mostly combatants – a flareup that has allowed al-Qaeda-linked fighters to gain ground, a war monitor ...
Syria at UN demands withdrawal of US-led military coalition
Syria’s top diplomat pressed Monday for a US-led military coalition to get out of his country and told the UN General Assembly meeting of world leaders that Damascus wants compensation for losses ...
Turkey strikes Syria regime outpost, kills three: War monitor
Turkish raids in northern Syria on Sunday struck outposts operated by the Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces, killing three, a Britain-based war monitor said.The raids near the Kurdish-held border ...
At least seven fighters from Kurdish-led force killed in Syria: Monitor
At least seven fighters from a Kurdish-led force were killed Sunday in two ISIS group attacks in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.“Six fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed” in ...
Kurd fighters killed, extremists detained in Syria’s al-Hol camp clashes
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said two of their fighters were killed and six extremists arrested Thursday following clashes in a volatile Syria camp where a security operation is ...
North Syria violence kills 19 civilians: War monitor
At least 19 civilians were killed during two separate incidents in the latest flare-up of violence along Syria’s northern border with Turkey, a war monitor said on Friday.The bloodshed comes against a ...
Turkish airstrike on Syria border post kills 11: War monitor
A Turkish airstrike on a Syria border post run by regime forces killed 11 Tuesday, following an overnight flare-up between Ankara’s forces and Kurdish fighters that control the area, a war monitor ...
West bows to Russian call for 6-months aid to Syrian rebels
Supporters of a one-year extension of humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest, which Russia vetoed, are now calling for a Security Council vote on ...