Syria

President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Syria's northern city of Aleppo Saturday as the country marks a year since a lightning Islamist-led offensive that eventually toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December. The Islamist alliance, led by Sharaa, entered Aleppo on November 29 last year and swiftly took control of Syria's second…

Maryam Hassan sits on a couch in her home in Jdeidet Artouz, a suburb of Syria’s capital Damascus, her voice soft but steady as she speaks. She raises her eyes to look upon a photograph of Younes and Mohammed al-Muqbil, her husband and teenage son, whom she last saw on…

Sharaa's general intelligence behind attack on IDF in Syria's south, Druze in east - report Those who attacked the IDF overnight were reportedly tied to the Syrian regime’s general intelligence and were the same group who organized attacks against Druze in Khader. A person holds up an image of Syrian…

Authorities have made another arrest in connection with last month’s deadly attack outside a Manchester synagogue, picking up a 31-year-old man as he arrived at Manchester Airport on Thursday morning. Police said the suspect is being held on suspicion of “commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism," reports the…

BEIT JINN, Syria — An Israeli military assault on this town in southern Syria early Friday killed at least 13 residents, including several children, according to witnesses, civil defense workers and relatives of the victims. The episode was one of the deadliest since Israel began occupying and carrying out regular…

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Jerusalem Post / Middle East / ISIS News Syrian forces kill two, arrest several terrorists in anti-ISIS operation Syrian forces foiled the cell's plot to carry out multiple terror attacks on the Syrian coast and seized a cache of various weapons and ammunition during the operation. A member loyal to…

Israel confirmed on Sunday (November 23) that it killed Hezbollah’s top military official, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The operation came despite a nearly year-long US-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon. Hezbollah later confirmed Tabtabai’s death, calling him “the great jihadist commander” who “worked to…

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(Reuters) -The Syrian central bank on Thursday sent its first Swift message to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, central bank Governor AbdulKader Husrieh told Reuters. "We sent (a) greeting message to all our international correspondent banks. We started with the Federal Reserve," Husrieh said. "We're telling them that…