Syria

ANKARA — Following his visit to Damascus earlier this week, on Tuesday Jordan’s Ayman Safadi became the first foreign minister to be officially hosted by Turkey’s new Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The two sat down in Ankara to discuss the Syria file as well as a series of bilateral and…

Parts of Idlib are dominated by Jihadist groups. Khalil Ashawi/Reuters Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, recently revealed his plans to send one million refugees back to Syria – despite the UN announcing that only 1.7 per cent of people would choose to return to Syria in 2023. To…

We spoke to Imad Alarnab, the chef and entrepreneur behind The Syrian Kitchen restaurant in London. Imad fled the war in Syria arriving in Britain in 2015 having made the risky journey across Europe as an asylum seeker. Read More

The IDF decided to allow the Syrian missile which exploded in the South to traverse most of the country, calculating from its trajectory that it did not need to be shot down earlier, sources said on Sunday. According to the sources, there was no error in Israel’s air defense systems…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has submitted a comprehensive report to US lawmakers detailing its interagency plan to disrupt Syria’s trade of the illegal amphetamine Captagon. Syria's production and smuggling of the highly addictive drug has spawned a multi-billion industry, creating an alternate source of revenue for a regime battered by more…

Iran has taken Canada to the International Court of Justice for allowing victims of alleged terror attacks to claim damages from Tehran, the UN's top tribunal said on Wednesday. Tehran's case claims that Ottawa, which listed the Islamic Republic as a sponsor of terrorism in 2012, had violated Iran's state…

Russian air strikes Sunday on Syria's northwest killed at least 11 people including seven civilians, in retaliation for deadly drone attacks blamed on rebel forces, a war monitor said. "Six civilians were killed in Jisr al-Shughur and three rebel fighters were killed nearby by Russian air strikes," Rami Abdel Rahman,…

Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday he had taken control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership, in what the authorities said was an armed mutiny. Following are some facts about the businessman and founder of the Wagner Group. *…

Cypriot emergency services rescued 45 Syrian migrants from two boats after receiving information that they were in distress near a coastal tourist resort, authorities said Friday. The eastern Mediterranean island’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said it had brought ashore 29 men, five women and 11 children who had been afloat…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said the health of the preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee was "heading in the right direction", as the attacker refused to cooperate with police. Four children -- aged between 22 months and three years old --…