Syria War

Syria reports second Israel attack on Aleppo airport in week

Syrian airline Cham Wings announces all flights to and from Aleppo would be routed to the capital Damascus due to Israeli air strikes.

US 'disappointed and troubled' as Syria's Assad visits UAE

The State Department says the US does not support efforts to rehabilitate Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad, and also does not "support others normalising relations".

Did the United Nations cover up 'killing of aid workers' by Syrian regime?

A report by The Jerusalem Post website has alleged that UN officials did not publicise an “internal UN message saying that Assad’s military had killed” two aid workers in 2016.

Mother and three children dead from building collapse in Syria's Idlib

The mother and one of her children were already dead when rescuers pulled them out, while two children succumbed to their wounds shortly afterward, White Helmets say.

Syria opposition lambasts UN's 'step for step' peace push

The plan will push the country towards more intransigence, and will impede the implementation of international resolutions, the Syrian opposition forces' High Negotiations Committee says.

Russian air strike kills civilians in northwestern Syria

The strike targeted a civilian settlement in Idlib province, leaving at least two people dead and 10 others injured.

War without end: Who will be king-maker in Syria in 2022?

Dynamics of geopolitics and Turkiye, Russia, US relations will decide the future of the embattled nation

Putin hosts Assad as the two sides eye Syria’s consolidation

Despite international sanctions and condemnation, the Russia-backed Assad regime is exploring ways to take back opposition and rebel-held territory where millions of displaced Syrians reside.

US, EU call for immediate end to 'deadliest violence' in Syria’s Daraa

Southwest Syria is seeing “the worst and deadliest violence” since 2018, the statements said, pointing to Bashar al Assad's regime shelling of civilian areas in the flashpoint region, including Daraa National Hospital, in recent days.

Several killed in Syria regime’s renewed strikes on last rebel enclave

Violence has been rising in recent weeks in Idlib, the last-rebel enclave between the regime and its allied forces and insurgents on the edge of a territory that is home to nearly 4 million people, despite a truce brokered in March 2020.

UN rights body calls for accountability over mass disappearances in Syria

UN Human Rights Council's resolution, adopted with 26 of the council's 47 members in favour, voiced particular concern about the fate of tens of thousands of people who have vanished in the war-ravaged country.

Thousands form human chain in Syria's Idlib to keep border crossing open

More than 2,000 humanitarian workers took part in the demonstration ahead of a July 10 deadline for a decision on whether the Bab al Hawa crossing will remain open for aid.