Tag: Syria
Syria to join Paris climate pact, isolating US
BONN: Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only...
Daesh loses last towns in face of twin Syria, Iraq assaults
DEIR EZZOR: Daesh on Friday lost control of the last two major towns under its grip in Syria and Iraq, as Syrian troops and...
Suicide attack kills 9 in Syria’s Golan Heights village
A suicide car bomb attack killed nine people in a government-held village in Syria's Golan Heights on Friday, state media said, reporting clashes between...
Putin visits Tehran for talks on Syria, nuclear deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran's leadership on Wednesday in Tehran as the two Damascus allies push a Syria peace plan and the Kremlin...
Russia says its submarine fired missiles at Daesh base in Syria
MOSCOW: Russia said Tuesday its submarine deployed in the Mediterranean fired three ballistic missiles to destroy a command post of Daesh group in Syria's...
Assad should have ‘no role’ in Syria’s future: Tillerson
GENEVA: President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday...
Assad’s forces responsible for deadly sarin attack: UN panel
UNITED NATIONS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces were responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun that killed...
Syrian journalist gets UK award for Aleppo hospital video
LONDON: Syrian video journalist Waad Al Kataeb on Monday won Britain's prestigious Rory Peck award for her horrific footage inside an Aleppo hospital in...
In Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, children die of hunger
Hamouria: One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under the translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege...
US secretary of state lands in Riyadh, begins Gulf, South Asia...
RIYADH: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Riyadh on Saturday to attend a landmark meeting between officials from Saudi Arabia and Iraq...
US, Russia headed for clash over Syria chemical attack investigation
UNITED NATIONS: The United States on Wednesday was headed for a showdown at the United Nations with Russia over extending an investigation to determine...
“White Widow’ Sally Jones ‘killed in US drone strike in Syria’
The renowned British Daesh recruiter Sally Jones aka "White Widow" has been killed by a US drone strike in Syria, reports The Independent.
The Islamist militant, who left Kent...
Trapped in Syria’s Raqa, civilians become human shields for IS
HAWA AI-HAWA (Syria): As fighters from the Islamic State group retreat into a shrinking part of Syria's Raqa, they are dragging along terrified civilians...
Turkey-backed rebels in new Syria operation: Erdogan
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced pro-Ankara Syrian rebels were launching a new military operation in Syria's northwestern Idlib province to...
IS may continue to exist on ‘dark web’ even after defeat...
Paris: The Islamic State group may soon be defeated in Iraq and Syria but a "virtual caliphate" could be harder to conquer, experts and...
US-led strike kills 18 civilians in Syria’s Raqa: monitor
A US-led coalition air strike killed at least 18 civilians on Tuesday in the militant Islamic State (IS) group's former stronghold of Raqa, the...
Air strikes kill 28 civilians in Syria safe zone
Beirut: At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing...
