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Skateboarding in Syria: New park helps displaced children
German NGO Skate Aid has built a skate park in Damascus, so children can learn the sport and perhaps one day become professional. Skateboarding will make its debut as an Olympic sport next year in Tokyo. And the path to Olympic glory has just been made easier for a group of displaced...
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Turkish foreign minister discusses defence, Syria with Pompeo
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has discussed by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the Russian S-400 missile defence system and the U.S. F-35 fighter jet programme, a foreign ministry source said on Saturday. The source did not say when the conversation took...
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Regime launches major aerial offensive on Khan Sheikhoun
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces launched major aerial offensive on the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun, carrying out more than 13 raids, senior Civil Defense worker said Saturday. The regime's fighter jets and helicopters have used barrel and cluster bombs that left...
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UN: Alarming intensification of violence in NW Syria
A senior UN adviser on Friday voiced concern over the ongoing violence in northwestern Syria, decrying a distressing rise. "An alarming intensification of daily violence continues in northwestern Syria. At least 350 civilians are reported to have been killed in recent hostilities in the...
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