Syria
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Syria holds first parliamentary elections since Assad’s fall
Damascus: Syria is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday, October 5, for the first time since the fall of the country’s longtime autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive…
- Middle East
Al-Sharaa becomes first Syrian president at UNGA since 1967
United Nations: Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s president addressed the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, marking the first time any president from his country has done so in almost…
- Middle East
Saudi, Qatar pledge USD 89M to back Syria’s public sector
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and Qatar have announced joint financial support of 89 million US dollars to Syria, Saudi state media reported. The funding, provided through the Saudi Fund for Development and the…
- World
US-led coalition kills top ISIS operative in Syria
Baghdad: The US-led coalition said its troops killed a top militant from the Islamic State group in central Syria early on Friday. The IS figure was described as in charge of planning…
- Middle East
850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad’s exit, UN says
Damascus: Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighbouring countries, and the figure could reach 1 million in the coming weeks, a…
- Middle East
Israeli drone strikes kill six soldiers in Damascus suburb
Damascus: Israeli drone strikes on a southern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed six soldiers and wounded others, state media and a war monitor reported Wednesday. The latest drone strikes occurred…
- World
Syria delays parliamentary vote in three provinces due to security reasons
Damascus: Syria‘s supreme committee for parliamentary elections announced the postponement of parliamentary elections, scheduled for September, in three provinces due to security challenges. The committee said the elections in Sweida, Hasakah, and…
- Middle East
UN envoy warns of worsening political climate amid insecurity in Syria
United Nations: UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen warned of “a worsening political climate” amid a precarious security situation in Syria. The July 19 ceasefire in Syria’s Sweida has come under…
- Opinions
Humiliated Israel takes refuge in the rubble of Syria, Gaza
To deflect the global attention from the unexpected military and diplomatic embarrassment suffered at the hands of Iran, the Zionists in Israel and the United States turned on the heat on war-ravaged…
- Middle East
Sweida hospital video shows medical worker shot by military-uniformed men
Damascus: Footage from security cameras at a hospital in the city of Sweida in southern Syria published on Sunday showed what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men…
- Middle East
Syria to hold 1st parliamentary elections since Assad’s fall in Sept
Damascus: Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday. Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad, chairman of the Higher Committee for…
- Middle East
Over 145,000 displaced as violence persists in Syria’s Sweida despite truce: UN
Damascus: Sporadic clashes, drone strikes, and ground fighting continued in Syria’s Sweida province and surrounding areas despite a declared truce, with the number of displaced reaching more than 145,000, the United Nations…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia opens first white cement factory in Syria to aid reconstruction
Damascus: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has officially launched the first white cement factory in Syria’s Adra industrial city, marking a major milestone in Saudi-Syrian economic cooperation. The facility, inaugurated on…
- Middle East
Syria asks Turkiye for defence support after sectarian clashes, officials say
Ankara: Syria’s interim government has requested Turkiye’s support to strengthen its defence capabilities, Turkish officials said, following sectarian violence over the past two weeks that increased tensions in Syria and drew Israeli…
- Middle East
Syria begins evacuation of Bedouin families from war-torn Sweida
Busra al-Harir: The Syrian government on Monday started evacuating Bedouin families trapped inside the city of Sweida, where Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters have clashed for over a week. The clashes between…
