Syria

Keralites have every right to state that "The Kerala Story" is a "misrepresentation of our reality", senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Monday, stressing that he was not calling for a ban on the film as freedom of expression does not cease to be valuable just because it can…

Image source, AFP Image caption, A soldier mans a machine gun mounted on an army vehicle during a Turkish and Russian military patrol in Syria Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi…

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace “mission” in Russia’s war in Ukraine was under way, though he gave no details, and said the Vatican is willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war. “I’m…

BEIRUT: Raja Salameh, the brother of Lebanon’s central bank governor, on Thursday appeared before a team of European judges investigating financial crimes and international money laundering involving more than $330 million. The judicial delegation, headed by French judge Aude Buresi, heard Salameh’s testimony at the Beirut Palace of Justice as…

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed on Sunday evening to the Jordanian capital Amman to participate in a meeting of the committee formed by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq on Syria. The committee stems from the consultative meeting of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,…

ROME: Now in its third week, the fighting that erupted on April 15 between Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan’s Sudanese Armed Forces and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s Rapid Support Forces shows no signs of abating. The violence, which has engulfed large swathes of the country, has Sudan’s neighbors worried that it will spill…

Syrian Woman Says Anime Helps Her Country Through Hard Times by Danica Davidson April 28, 2023 Anime can help people around the world through hardships. A Syrian woman identified simply as “Suzan” told the Japanese paper The Asahi Shimbun about how much anime has meant to her and other Syrians.…

ANKARA: Turkiye is facing one of the most competitive elections in its political history with both presidential and parliamentary polls set to be held on May 14. After President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was forced to postpone his campaigning last week due to a reported intestinal infection — he fell ill…

ANKARA — The Turkish and Syrian defense and intelligence chiefs discussed the concrete steps that could be taken to normalize Ankara-Damascus ties on Tuesday, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met his Syrian counterpart, Ali Mahmoud Abbas, along with both countries’ intelligence chiefs in Moscow. Russian Defense…

The Israeli military also dropped leaflets warning Syrian soldiers against cooperating with the Iranian terror proxy. (April 24, 2023 / JNS) Israel Defense Forces tanks reportedly shelled a Syrian army post used by Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah early on Monday morning, in the second such incident in as many weeks.…