Syria

Qatar airways has restarted flights to Damascus, after an almost 13 year pause. A Qatar airways flight touched down at Damascus international airport on Tuesday; on board were nationals returning after years abroad. It marks the first commercial flight to the airport since Islamist-led forces ousted Bashar al-Assad in December.…

Qatar Airways flight lands at Damascus International Airport, carrying nationals returning after years away. The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has landed at the Damascus airport. The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport on Tuesday, greeted by the passengers’ relatives…

The fall of the Assad regime after more than 50 years and the rise of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has brought Syria to a critical turning point. Decades of Ba'athist rule entrenched deep ideological and emotional divides within Syrian society. Aside from the massive job of rebuilding…

Al-Masry Al-Youm The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed a classified document that exposes secret operations to transfer huge sums of money through Syrian Airlines to the Russian capital, Moscow, describing it as ‘one of the most mysterious financial transfer operations involving the former Syrian regime’.” The Syrian Observatory…

International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since Islamist-led forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad last month. There was an air of excitement at the terminal, AFP journalists saw, with arriving passengers chanting and cheering, some draped in the country's three-star independence flag.…

The U.S. Government has eased some restrictions on Syria’s government to allow for humanitarian aid. The U.S. Treasury had issued a sanctions exemption for six months to “support the Syrian people as they build a more hopeful, secure, and peaceful future,’’ it said in a statement. In December, Syria’s new…

The Syrian Embassy in Cairo has announced new measures aimed at easing their return to Syria on Sunday 5 January.  Among these measures are free document certification, a one-time six-month extension for passports, and complimentary same-day return tickets.  These initiatives, effective immediately, underscore the Embassy’s commitment to supporting the approximately…

A Syrian mayor told AFP he had meetings with Israeli officers as the military conducted incursions in his village inside a Golan Heights buffer zone, saying they had demanded locals relinquish their weapons. The Israeli military, contacted by AFP, said it could not comment. Mohamed Mreiwel, mayor of the village…

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport, arriving from Qatar. Jordanian state-run Petra news agency reported that a Royal Jordanian Airlines plane departed for Damascus on a test flight. The head of the Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission,…

January 7, 2025 Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror suspects were sent for brutal interrogations. Syrians stage a protest for their relatives imprisoned in Sednaya Prison, in Damascus, Syria on January 3, 2025. (Izettin Kasim / Anadolu via Getty Images)…