Some 700 Syrian refugees have been displaced from a settlement in the Baalbeck town of Deir al-Ahmar since the imposition Wednesday of severe restrictions on their movements, amid calls for their forcible removal.
Abu Mohammed lives his life in lists: he lists the places in Syria to which his family has been forcibly displaced. He lists the different reasons for each displacement. He lists the number of Muslim holidays he’s spent away from home. “When we were in our houses we had our rituals and our...
A Russian fighter jet made a dangerous high-speed pass that put a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft at risk during an intercept over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said, but Moscow said its pilot had behaved responsibly. “While the Russian aircraft was operating in...
Syria's Kurds said two American women and six children from families of suspected Islamic State group members were repatriated to the United States on Wednesday from a crowded camp in northeast Syria. The transfer was carried out "at the request of the US government and based... on the free...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attended a mosque in the capital Damascus on Wednesday for prayers marking the end of Ramadan, pictures posted by state media showed. Assad joined dignitaries including the country's top Muslim cleric Ahmad Badredine Hassoun for the prayers in the Hafez...
Fighters have set fire to thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies in a "weapon of war" and forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee, the United Nations said Tuesday. Satellite images released by campaigners last...
Lebanon's planned demolition of concrete shelters housing Syrian refugees near the border could make at least 15,000 children homeless, aid groups warned Tuesday. The authorities in April set a June 9 deadline for Syrian refugees living in shelters built with materials other than timber and...
(Action Group For Palestinians of Syria)- Hundreds of Palestinian youths were forced to join the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian government, in May. The list includes university graduates or those whose deferment of studies license expired by March 15....
Ten members of Syria’s White Helmets and their families are still living in a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert, with their applications for asylum in Canada stalled over security concerns, nearly a year after the federal government won plaudits for leading the operation to save them....
Doctors working in rebel-held northern Syria will no longer share the locations of medical facilities with the United Nations after doing so failed to stop them being targeted by airstrikes. Some 25 hospitals have been bombed by Syrian government and Russian forces in the past month, as the...
Russia on Monday blocked a UN Security Council statement criticizing Syria's military campaign in the Idlib region that Western powers fear will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. Russia said in a note seen by AFP that the proposed statement was "unbalanced" because it did not mention the...
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Monday started sending home 800 Syrian women and children who had been evacuated from the Islamic State group's "caliphate". They also handed over five Norwegian orphans who had been stranded in the same camp of Al-Hol following a visit by a...
The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria Monday handed over five orphans from families of Daesh (ISIS) to Norwegian authorities, a spokesperson said. "Following a request made by the Kingdom of Norway ... five Norwegian orphans related to Islamic State jihadists were handed over to a...
Israel launched a second round of strikes against Syria in 24 hours Sunday, state media reported, as U.S. President Donald Trump called on Russia and Iran to "stop bombing the hell" out of the war-torn country. Syria accused Israel of targeting an airbase in Homs province, reportedly...
The Kremlin insisted Monday that the Russian army was targeting "terrorists" in Syria's last militant stronghold of Idlib, accusing them of firing at civilians and Moscow's troops. "Terrorist fire in Idlib is of course unacceptable," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters....
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Russia and Syrian government forces to stop bombing Syria’s Idlib province, following a Friday Kremlin statement that signaled Moscow would continue to back a month-long Syrian government offensive there. “Hearing word that Russia, Syria and, to a...
Four civilians were killed in airstrikes by Bashar al-Assad regime forces and Russia on de-escalation zones in northern Syria on Sunday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. An airstrike targeted the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib province, leaving two civilians...
The Kurdish administration in Syria Sunday said it plans to hand 800 local women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families tomorrow in the first such transfer from an overcrowded camp. The women and children – all Syrians—are living among the dregs of Daesh (ISIS) in...
(Hebrew Press)- The Israeli Shin Bet security service last month arrested a 22-year-old Arab Israeli woman suspected of having joined the al-Nusra Front terror group in Syria in March 2018. Rania Shenawi, of the Arab town of Makr, was arrested on May 7 upon her return to...
Israeli strikes targeting Syria Sunday left 10 people dead, including three Syrian soldiers and seven foreign fighters, a monitoring group said. They were killed in missile strikes close the capital Damascus where Syrian troops, Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters are stationed, the...
