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Shells hit Swaida city for first time in three years

Rebel shellfire slammed into the southern Syrian city of Swaida on Tuesday for the first time in three years, an activist group said, as fresh regime reinforcements arrived in the area. The government holds most of Swaida province but rebels still control much of the nearby Deraa and...

Daraa: Regime forces, Hezbollah attack al-Lajat region

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Hezbollah militia have pounded a border territory with Jordan, leaving dozen wounded, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. The strategic region of al-Lajat, including the town of al-Masika, has been rocked by hundreds of artillery shells,...

'Turkish patrols in Manbij give hope for homecoming'

Turkish soldiers patrolling in Manbij are giving locals hope that they can go back home, according to a prominent longtime resident of the northeastern Syria city. Ibrahim Alhaji, who served a decade as an undersecretary at Syria’s Justice Ministry after 12 years as a judge and...

Meeting eyeing Syrian constitution starts in Geneva

Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, on Tuesday met with senior Turkish, Russian, and Iranian officials towards the establishment of a constitutional committee for the war-battered country. The delegations entered the UN at Geneva on Tuesday morning for the closed-door...