Syria

Syrian authorities published preliminary results of their indirect vote for the first parliament since Bashar al-Assad's historic toppling last year, with election officials acknowledging a low success rate for women and religious minorities. The vote resulted in around 6,000 members of regional electoral colleges choosing candidates from pre-approved lists, part…

As Egypt on Sunday celebrated its annual October 6 Victory Day, commemorating the 1973 Arab-Israeli war known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War, neighboring Syria drew attention across Arab media for a strikingly different move. President Ahmad al-Sharaa has issued a decree reshaping the country’s official calendar and abolishing…

Counting underway in Syria's first parliamentary elections since ouster of AssadRead More

Ballot boxes have closed across Syria in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime, as counting continued late into Sunday evening in what officials described as a defining step in Syria’s political transition. Election spokesman Nawar Najmeh told Syrian state TV al-Ikhbariya that all polling…

Prominent Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, known for his Middle-East set humanistic films “Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride” and most recently “Reading Lolita in Tehran” feels angry and frustrated over the political leadership in Israel that has led nearly 4,000 entertainment industry names to boycott Israeli film institutions, viewed as “complicit…

A rally was held in Damascus in support of Syria's interim government and to condemn Israel's intervention following recent clashes between Syrian government forces and Druze militias in the southern city in July. Officials are electing new members of Parliament on Sunday. Photo by Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)/UPI |…

Syria is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country's long time autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive in December. Under the 50-year rule of the Assad dynasty, Syria held regular elections in which all Syrian citizens could…

On Wednesday, September 24, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa made the first speech by a Syrian leader  before the UN General Assembly for nearly 60 years. It marked a milestone in Syria's history and of the international recognition of Sharaa, who became Syria's interim president after Bashar al-Assad was overthrown last…

MANCHESTER, England — One of two victims slain during the attack on a synagogue in northern England on Yom Kippur was killed by a bullet fired by the police, apparently as they gunned down the attacker who had stabbed people and appeared to be wearing an explosive belt, authorities said…

Al-Shamie was brought to the UK as a child and was given citizenship in 2006. Syrian-born Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, has been named as the man who carried out the Yom Kippur attack in Manchester, England on Thursday. The victims of the attack were named by The Times as Adrian Daulby,…