Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Amid sharp economic decline, Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree on Tuesday granting hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and soldiers a one-time financial stimulus, equivalent to an average monthly salary. The stimulus — the third since October — comes as the national currency…

Largely forgotten, Christians in Iraq and Syria continue to suffer from decades of war and persecution. As the world was transfixed by the U.S. presidential election and its aftermath, an international coalition of diplomats and universal human rights activists came together for a virtual event in Washington, D.C. The gathering…

TORONTO -- A four-year-old rescued from a detention camp in Syria is doing well at her new home in Canada, according to her Canadian aunt — but she keeps crying for her mother, who remains in Syria after allowing other relatives to take the child to safety. The child, whose…

By Philippe RATER (AFP)     Mar 15, 2021 in World The US ambassador to the United Nations urged the international community not to "be fooled" by Syria's forthcoming presidential election during a Security Council meeting Monday on the 10th anniversary of the start of the conflict. "These elections will…

/ Middle East On The Ground in 2011 Issued on: 14/03/2021 - 17:02 Covering the Arab Spring: our reporters’ perspective © FRANCE 24 From Tunisia to Syria, Egypt to Yemen, a wave of revolutions set the Arab world alight in 2011. Ten years on, our reporters take a look back…

Published March 14, 2021 11:28pm BEIRUT, Lebanon — The overall death toll for Syria's civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the figures includes almost 117,388 civilians, among them more…

CulturePhotographyRenowned photographer Pixie Levinson and football player Hector Bellerin front creative project with children from Arsenal and Save the Children’s Coaching for Life programme Through the lens: Young Syrian refugees tell their storyShow all 19To mark 10 years since the devastating war in Syria began, and one year since the…

At a makeshift military outpost abutting a natural gas field in eastern Syria, the signs of the country’s violent upheaval are everywhere. Bombed-out concrete buildings lie in ruins. The pipes that once carried liquefied natural gas are shredded and twisted. A tattered U.S. flag strung between 40-foot-tall gas processing towers…

FAYSH KHABUR BORDER CROSSING, IRAQ — The nine young mothers rushed into the spartan offices of a Syrian border post, looking for the sons and daughters taken from them two years ago, children they thought they would never see again. The bewildered children, dressed in new puffy jackets from the…

Fighting for life in Syria's vicious civil war; then, Steve Kroft reports on how cash-starved countries offer citizenship for a price; and, chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county. Read More