Syria

IRBIL / MEXICO CITY: On a recent morning, as Sahar Ayoub gently turned the pages of her Bible, she contemplated the trauma that her family experienced when Daesh militants seized the northern town of Qaraqosh in the Nineveh governorate almost seven years ago. She and her husband Ameer Bahnam were forced…

image copyrightReuters image captionA displaced Syrian woman walks with a child at a camp in the Northern Aleppo countrysideThe UK will cut aid to Syria and several African countries by more than 60%, a leaked email suggests. First reported by openDemocracy, the document dated last month suggests officials are considering…

Biden to work with Congress to repeal post-9/11 laws that gave presidents a blank check to wage war. The White House said they aim to replace the laws with a "narrow" framework that protects the US. There's been growing bipartisan support in Congress to rein in presidential war powers. Visit…

US President Joe Biden called off a second airstrike in Syria which intended to target a separate site controlled by Iranian-backed militias when the president was urgently notified there was "a woman and a couple of children" in the courtyard of the marked facility, a report published in the Wall…

BERLIN (AP) - A young Syrian man has been charged with murder over an Islamic extremist attack on two tourists last year, German federal prosecutors said Thursday. Abdullah A.H.H., whose last name wasn’t given in line with privacy laws, is alleged to have attacked two German tourists, aged 55 and…

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian pound fell to a record low on the black market on Wednesday, hit by the ripple effect of currency woes in neighboring Lebanon with which it has extensive business and banking ties, dealers and bankers said. FILE PHOTO: Stacks of Syrian pounds are pictured inside…

Last September, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who relishes undermining subordinate local politicians and interjecting himself into the management of his state’s largest city, complained about how dirty New York City was getting. Residential garbage collection had slowed, due to Department of Sanitation budget cuts, while residential trash had increased,…

13 John Prince’s St. The Globe and Mail There isn’t much reason to visit 13 John Prince’s St., an unfamous address just a minute’s walk from the Oxford Circus subway station, in the heart of London’s shopping district. And yet, two investigations – five years apart, and into subjects as…

Investigations in France and Germany could lead to prosecutions of President Bashar al-Assad and members of his upper echelon over one of the Syrian war’s signature atrocities. A picture of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in Douma, outside Damascus, in 2018. The government is accused of using chemical weapons in…

March 1 (UPI) -- The Pentagon on Monday said the U.S. airstrike carried out in Syria last week killed one member of an Iranian-backed militia and injured two others. "What I can tell you is that we believe right now there was likely one militia member killed and two militia…