Syria

FILE PHOTO: Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, the newly appointed commander of Iran's Quds Force, reads the will of Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. air strike at Baghdad Airport, during the forty day memorial at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran February 13, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA…

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian news agency on Saturday reported a visit by the chief of the elite Quds Force to eastern Syria, a rare public announcement of a trip to the battlefield by the successor of a commander killed by the United States in January. Esmail Ghaani is the…

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country’s coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday. A general view of camps at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, Syria June…

NEW YORK/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it has quit a voluntary United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties. Vassily Nebenzia, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council at U.N.…

NEW YORK/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it has quit a voluntary United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties. FILE PHOTO: Vassily Nebenzia, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council…

BEIRUT/GENEVA, June 25 (Reuters) - Russia has quit a United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, according to a U.N. note to aid groups seen by Reuters on Thursday. The Russian move comes after an internal…

BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Just last year, President Bashar al-Assad seemed on the brink of crowning military victories by easing his diplomatic isolation and recovering more of Syria without a bullet being fired. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria March 5,…

BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Just last year, President Bashar al-Assad seemed on the brink of crowning military victories by easing his diplomatic isolation and recovering more of Syria without a bullet being fired. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria March 5,…

Busts from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra awaiting restoration at the National Museum in Damascus after their recovery from the Islamic State by Syrian army troops, 2017.Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP (Getty Images)Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market…

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army responded to Israeli strikes on southern, central and eastern Syria in which two soldiers were killed, the army said on Tuesday in what military defectors and intelligence sources said was a wave of raids that targeted Iranian bases. The army said Israeli jets hit…