Tag: War in Syria

BEIRUT: Explosions rocked a Syrian military airport near the capital Damascus late Saturday, with an NGO saying it was a "possible Israeli missile" but...

DAMASCUS: Iran and Syria signed a deal for military cooperation in a meeting between the defence ministers of the two countries in Damascus, the...

DAMASCUS: Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami arrived in Syria on Sunday for meetings with senior defence and military officials as part of a two-day...

MOSCOW: Turkey’s foreign minister said on Friday it would be disastrous to seek a military solution in the northern Syrian region of Idlib, a...

BEIJING: There is no accurate figure of the number of ethnic Uighurs who have gone to fight with militant groups in Syria, China’s special...

BEIRUT: Hundreds of Syrian refugees returned to their country from Lebanon on Saturday in a bus convoy arranged by both governments, advancing an effort...

BEIRUT: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) said on Saturday that it and the Syrian government had decided at a meeting to form committees...

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: Islamic State militants killed dozens of people in a series of attacks on government-held parts of southwestern Syria on Wednesday, including multiple suicide...

WASHINGTON: A Michigan man seized overseas by a US-backed Syrian militia has been charged with providing material support to Islamic State militants, the US...

GENEVA: The United Nations refugee agency appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump held a phone call on Monday and discussed the importance of implementing the joint...

BEIRUT:  Syrian state media said on Sunday that Israeli rockets had hit a Syrian military position near Nairab airport on the outskirts of the...

AMMAN: The Syrian government widened its offensive to recover the southwest on Wednesday, extending it to an enclave held by Islamic State-affiliated fighters as...

BEIRUT: Syrian military air defences struck an Israeli warplane and shot down Israeli missiles targeting the T4 air base in Homs province in response...

THE HAGUE: A preliminary report by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said “various chlorinated chemicals” were found at the site of an attack in...

CAIRO: A son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, the group’s news channel...