Syria

Canada's ban on new arms exports to Turkey has been extended indefinitely, Global Affairs confirmed today. The Liberal government imposed a suspension on the approval of export permits last fall after Turkish forces launched an incursion into northern Syria.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AK Party. (Turkish…

BERLIN (Reuters) - The first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s security services for crimes against humanity, including torture and sexual assault, starts in Germany on Thursday. Syrian defendant Eyad A. arrives at a court for the first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's…

The Egyptian man, who has fought in Syria and Iraq, was hiding in an apartment with two other people who were also arrested and were being identified by police, the interior ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday. The man has appeared in gory propaganda pictures of IS crimes,…

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian air defences responded to an Israeli aerial attack on the city of Palmyra in eastern Homs province in central Syria and downed several “hostile targets”, state media said on Monday. A news flash on state media did not give any details of the aerial attack on…

NAIRAB, Idlib, Syria (Reuters) - Taher al-Matar’s home in northwest Syria is in ruins but he has gone back to live there anyway, driven by dire conditions in camps for displaced people, where he fears any outbreak of the coronavirus would be devastating. A woman walks past damaged buildings with…

By: Reuters | Lisbon | Updated: April 19, 2020 2:51:12 pm The picture shows food sent by Ramia Abdalghani and Alan Ghumim to health workers at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. (Picture credit: Reuters)Tired and hungry, nurse Nuno Delicado had a pleasant surprise when a local Syrian restaurant sent food…

Medill News Service Published: April 17, 2020 at 7:02 p.m. ET The head of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says the agency is prioritizing humanitarian requests amid the coronavirus pandemic. Getty Images The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure…

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast said on Friday that the World Health Organisation had found the area’s first case of coronavirus earlier this month after samples were tested in Damascus. In a statement, the regional administration said a 53-year-old man had died at Qamishli National…

An Israeli drone has targeted a car carrying members of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement near Syria's border with Lebanon, according to reports. The attack on Wednesday just inside Syria caused no casualties, news agencies reported, quoting a source from Hezbollah, a Shia group backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the country's…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli drone targeted a car carrying forces from Iran-backed Hezbollah in Syria near the Lebanese border, a commander in the pro-Damascus regional alliance and a security source said. The sources said there were no casualties, with the passengers escaping before the car was hit and destroyed.…