Syria

AL AHSA, Saudi Arabia – When Stephen Constantine take over as head coach for Pakistan football team 18 months ago, him clear say dem aim be to qualify for the Asian Cup. As Pakistan prepare to face Syria on Tuesday in Group ‘E’, na im be chance for dem to…

Foreign Affairs The recent bout of violence in Syria is the final act of reordering in the region. In a tone-deaf statement, strongly reminiscent of “the skirt is too small” school of diplomacy, the European Union condemned the ongoing violence in Syria, blaming it on attacks “reportedly by pro-Assad elements,…

The Trump administration lodged new accusations over the weekend against detained Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil in an effort to justify its deportation case against him.The big picture: The arrest of Khalil, a leader in Columbia's pro-Palestinian protests and a U.S. green card holder from Syria...Read More

When news of Bashar al-Assad’s downfall broke on December 8 2024, 13 years after the beginning of the Syrian uprising, Syrians around the world rejoiced. We rejoiced along with them, having spent the last decade in conversation with Syrians displaced to the neighbouring countries of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, where…

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When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean coast, Dhulfiqar Ali had escaped death not once but twice. He is among thousands of Syrians who have fled across the border after armed groups descended on the Syrian coastal heartland…

The Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011 after an antigovernment protest (1) and culminated in the collapse of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024 (2), had profound social and environmental consequences. Beyond its devastating effects on human lives, the war has disrupted vital infrastructure...Read More

DAMATU, SYRIA — A ranar Asabar, fashewar da ta faru a birnin Latakia, Syria, ta jawo asarar rayuka akalla 16, kamar yadda kungiyar agajin gaggawa ta sanar. Gawar mata guda biyar tare da ƙananan yara guda biyar sun zama ruwan dare a cikin hayaniya da fashewar ta haifar, bayan an…

1 of 5 | On March 18, 2014, the U.S. State Department ordered Syria to close its embassy in Washington, D.C., (pictured in 2008) and consulates in Michigan and Texas. File Photo by Josh Carolina/Wikimedia March 18 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (file photo). More than 300 people were reported killed after Israel launched deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and southern Syria in what it said were targeted attacks against extremists planning terror assaults, reigniting tensions that threatened to engulf the region in a…