Syria

BEIRUT — Israeli missiles targeted a western Syrian city on Sunday wounding three Syrian soldiers, Syrian state media reported. The official news agency SANA, citing a military source, said the missiles were fired at Masyaf in Hama province at dawn. Syria’s air defenses shot several of them down. Syrian state…

A US general warned Saturday that the Middle East faces the looming threat of an Islamic State group "army in detention", after visiting prisons and camps in northeastern Syria holding suspected jihadists and their relatives. General Michael Kurilla, head of the US military's Central Command, visited several detention facilities this…

Women react as they wait for a rescue team next to their collapsed building in the southeastern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, two days after a strong earthquake struck the region. Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP /Getty Images The world recently watched rescue teams recover Turks…

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…