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Summer rainstorm damages 30 displaced camps: Idlib

A summer rainstorm has partly damaged 30 refugee camps in northwestern Syria, rescue group said Friday. The floods have washed away dozens of tents along the Turkish border, according to the Syrian Response Coordination group.  More than one million people have been...

Draft UN resolution calls for three aid crossings to Syria

A draft UN resolution would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest and reopen an Iraqi crossing to the northeast to deliver medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia, which insisted the Iraqi crossing be...

Syrian Kurdish region increases salaries amid currency crash

As Syria's economy plummeted further, the local Kurdish-led authority controlled by US-backed fighters in the country's north said Thursday it was more than doubling the salaries of its employees to make up for the loss of the value of the Syrian pound. The announcement came a day after...

Assad's anti-corruption committees: names, missions

Since mid-2019, the rift between Bashar al-Assad and his maternal cousin and tycoon Rami Makhlouf has been growing wider, despite both parties’ initial attempts to find solutions and to keep the dispute from the public. However, with Rami Makhlouf’s media appearance, earlier this year,...