A Syrian military helicopter crashed during a training mission due to a technical failure northeast of the city of Hama, and its crew were killed, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Sunday, citing a military source. (Reuters)
Lebanon arrested five State Security agents Saturday on suspicion of torturing to death a Syrian detainee, in the latest abuse allegation against the security services, a judicial source told AFP. The arrests came on the orders of the government's commissioner to the military courts, Fadi...
Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports to disrupt Tehran's increasing use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon including Hezbollah, regional diplomatic and intelligence sources told Reuters. Tehran has adopted air transport as a more reliable means...
The Lebanese Hezbollah militia supplied missiles to several locations in the Damascus countryside on Friday evening, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Hezbollah deployed surface-to-air missiles at military points on the border strip near the city of Zabadani, and installed a rocket...
BEIRUT —Following an accusation by the local newspaper Al Akhbar on Friday that “an officer and agents of the State Security Service tortured a Syrian detainee during interrogation and beat him to death,” several judicial sources confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour that a lieutenant was taken into...
Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its monthly report released on Thursday that 91 civilians were killed in Syria in August 2022, including 28 children, two women, and seven individuals who died as a result of torture, noting that the Syrian regime continues to kill...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack targeting a Syrian airport tore a hole in the runway and also damaged a structure close to the military side of the airfield, satellite photos analyzed Friday by The Associated Press showed. The attack Wednesday night on Aleppo...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday launched weeklong war games involving forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the U.S. The maneuvers are also intended to demonstrate that Moscow has sufficient...
Israel launched a missile attack on Wednesday targeting the airport in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Syrian state media said, citing a military source. The Syrian government did not report any casualties. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based opposition war monitor, said in...
Syria’s losses in the oil and gas sectors since the beginning of the war in 2011 until mid-2022 have amounted to about $107 billion dollars, revealed a letter sent by the Foreign Ministry to the UN-Secretary-General and President of the UN Security Council on Monday. The letter said...
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday that at least 154,398 Syrians arrested between March 2011 and August 2022 are still in detention or have been forcibly disappeared by the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in their country, Anadolu has reported. That figure...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of a prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric fired rocket-propelled grenades into Iraq's Green Zone as machine gun fire crackled overhead Tuesday, deepening the political chaos gripping the Mideast nation. Those backing influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired into the Green...
The pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper revealed that there is a great shortage of supplies and medicines in public hospitals, where doctors in hospitals ask patients' companions to bring supplies, most of which are not available in hospitals, which imposes heavy financial burdens on citizens in...
A Swiss woman faces trial Monday accused of having tried to slit the throats of two women in a department store in the name of the Daesh jihadist group. The 29-year-old is accused of having committed a “terrorist act” in the attack in the plush Manor store in Lugano in southern Switzerland’s...
A Syrian displaced person and former detainee revealed the presence of a Syrian war criminal in Germany after years of working as an investigator in the notorious Deir Shamil military camp in Hama province, where he specialized in buying and selling detainees and trafficking them. ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite imagery showed widespread destruction at a giant military facility in western Syria targeted in a recent Israeli airstrike, and the head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said Sunday the strike targeted a depot housing hundreds of middle-range missiles for Iran-backed...
Authorities transferred some 400 asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands after a damning report called the site where hundreds of people were sleeping rough a health hazard. Leon Veldt, a spokesman for the...
TER APEL, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities moved 150 migrants Thursday night from an overcrowded asylum seekers center in the northeastern Netherlands to two sports halls in a central city, alleviating the suffering of some of the people who have been camped in the open air in sweltering summer...
Cyprus police have arrested five Syrians on suspicion of people trafficking after a police patrol boat plucked them and 32 of their countrymen from the sea when their rickety boats sank close to the island’s southeastern tip. Police say the five men aged 46-53 face numerous charges...
A new report has exposed the full extent of the brutal massacre that the Syrian regime inflicted on civilians in the town of Daraya 10 years ago, The Guardian reported on Thursday. In the first detailed investigation into the atrocities, a team from Syria — backed by the Syrian British...
