Syria

A South African woman who has been held captive by Kurdish authorities in Syria since November 2018 is pleading with the government to facilitate her repatriation. In December 2014, Khadija’s youngest brother left for Syria with his two small children. She was unwilling to disclose her surname for fear of…

Iran's Foreign Minister welcomed during a trip to Damascus on Thursday Arab outreach to Syria's internationally-isolated government after an earthquake struck Turkey and the war-torn country last month. He also said Tehran, which has backed Damascus during its 12 years of conflict, would join efforts to reconcile Syria and Turkey,…

March 9, 2023 The Islamic State (IS) killed three people and stole hundreds of sheep in central Syria on Thursday, according to local reports.  IS attacked a group of people grazing sheep in the Salamiyah area east of the central city of Hama, shooting them with machine guns. The guerrilla…

Issued on: 09/03/2023 - 17:26Modified: 09/03/2023 - 17:32 A seven-month-old baby died during the night of February 23, 2023 in a makeshift shelter for people displaced by the earthquake in Azaz, a town in northwestern Syria. The earthquake was the worst to hit the region in a century. © Observers…

Seven people including several civilians were killed Wednesday when a drone strike targeted a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed factions in government-held eastern Syria, a war monitor said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the strike in Deir Ezzor province, where Iran-backed factions hold sway and where a…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the blacklisting of a Syrian intelligence official accused of killing dozens of people during a 2013 massacre in Damascus. Photo by Peter Foley/UPI | License Photo March 7 (UPI) -- The administration of President Joe Biden has blacklisted a Syrian intelligence officer seen…

/ Middle East Issued on: 07/03/2023 - 02:48 A Cham Wings Airlines Airbus A320-211 is pictured at Syria's Aleppo airport after flights were diverted from Damascus following an Israeli strike on June 15, 2022. © AFP An Israeli airstrike hit the Aleppo airport early Tuesday and put it out of…

72 games for less than £25 might sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what's on offer as part of the Humble Bundle right now. The gaming bundle site often sells dozens of games for a discount price to raise money for charity, but its current Turkey-Syria Earthquake…

After nearly 20 hours of driving, we arrived in Kahramanmaras, at a scene beyond description. A truly apocalyptic scale of devastation. Building after building, block after block, had been levelled. Rescue teams were working frantically to reach people buried in the rubble of that first magnitude 7.8 earthquake on February…

Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim said it was wrong to abuse humanitarian aid for political purposes in a country devastated by civil war. Published On 5 Mar 20235 Mar 2023 Qatar’s emir says he was puzzled by the delay in delivering aid to victims in Syria of last month’s earthquake, adding that…