Tag: Syrian

  BEIRUT: The political wing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) went to Damascus last week for a second round of talks with the...

ISTANBUL: Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin,...

BEIRUT: A senior Syrian Kurdish official is in Damascus this week for talks with Syrian government officials at the head of a delegation including...

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels began evacuating the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Friday, a witness and a war monitor group said, leaving for...

AMMAN: The Syrian army has taken control of a strategic hill that overlooks the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, state television said on Monday. It said the...

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: Israel attacked Syrian army posts on Thursday near the Golan frontier after a drone incursion, but signaled it would not impede President Bashar...

BEIRUT: Dark smoke rose over areas held by Syrian rebels near the border with Jordan on Thursday as President Bashar al-Assad's Russian allies unleashed...

BEIRUT/GENEVA: More than 120,000 civilians have been uprooted by a Syrian army offensive in the southwest since it began last week, a war monitor...

ARSAL: Nearly 400 refugees began leaving the Lebanese border town of Arsal to cross into Syria on Thursday, a rare case of returns which...

ANKARA: Turkey's border guards are indiscriminately shooting and forcibly returning Syrian asylum seekers, who are trying to cross into Turkey, the Human Rights Watch...

WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary James Mattis claimed this week’s Syrian national dialogue congress in Russia’s Sochi had failed to produce any significant results. "You see,...

SOCHI: Delegates at a Syrian peace conference in Sochi have called for respect for the country’s territorial integrity and said the Syrian people alone...

GENEVA: The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting to...

ALEPPO: Syrian servicemen and militia have repelled attacks by the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group and regained control over seven settlements near the town of...

MOSCOW: The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attack on the Russian base in Syria was a provocation aimed at destroying previous agreements, Russian President Vladimir...

ANKARA: Turkey called on Russia and Iran on Wednesday to pressure Syrian authorities to halt a military offensive in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern province of...

ISTANBUL: A substantial portion of the funds promised by the European Union (EU) to help Syrian refugees in Turkey is still not being used...