Syria

A Saudi customs officer opens imported pomegranates, as customs foiled an attempt to smuggle over five million pills of an amphetamine drug known as Captagon, which they said came from Lebanon, in 2021. Photo / Saudi Press Agency via AP A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad…

Iran’s foreign minister spoke to his Syrian counterpart over the weekend. The goal was to follow up on a recent trip by Iran’s leader to Damascus. Iran and Syria are close allies and Iran backed Syria’s regime during the civil war in Syria. Iran also sent IRGC officers and soldiers…

A woman places flowers near the site where children were stabbed on Thursday morning in a playground in the southeastern Alpine town of Annecy, France, taken on 9 June 2023. — AFPFour young children, ages 1 to 3, who were stabbed in a park in Annecy, in the southeast of…

A three-year-old British girl among those stabbed in the French Alps on Thursday was there on holiday. She was among the four children - two aged two, one aged three and a 22-month-old - who suffered "life-threatening injuries" at a playground in Annecy. Two adults were also injured. The suspect,…

A British toddler is one of six injured in a knife attack by a Syrian refugee in south-eastern France. In an apparent lone attack at a playground in Annecy, a town located in the French Alps, a knifeman stabbed four children - aged between 22 months and 3 years -…

A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four young children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps this morning in an attack whose motive remains unclear. The youngest victim in the quiet town of Annecy was just 22 months old. Investigators are trying to understand…

As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday, assaulting at least one in a stroller repeatedly. The children between 22 months and 3 years old suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults also were wounded,…

June 8, 2023 ANKARA — Bringing up the return of Syrian refugees publicly for the first time, Turkey’s National Security Council stressed the need for international support to ensure Syrians’ voluntary return to their home country. Turkey’s National Security Council held its first meeting Thursday after Turkish President Recep Tayyip…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the U.S. would provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Islamic State extremist group. He spoke at a ministerial conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on combatting…

A Syrian national wounded four children and an adult in a knife attack in a French park on Thursday, police said, leaving some of the victims critically ill in hospital. The attack, which happened in the French alpine town of Annecy, was carried out by a Syrian national with legal…