Jordan has stressed the need for the international community to take practical and immediate steps to create necessary circumstances for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi made the remarks at [Read More]
Israel carried out a missile strike on military sites around the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday night, injuring a soldier, the Syrian army said in a statement. The missiles were launched from the direction of [Read More]
The Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) have foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of narcotics from Syria into Jordan. The JAF said in a statement that the border guards, in coordination with the anti-narcotics [Read More]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen discussed on Sunday the latest developments in Syria. During a phone conversation, Shoukry and Pedersen discussed the outputs of [Read More]
Syria has expressed its willingness to receive 180,000 displaced refugees from Lebanon at the first stage, said Lebanese Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine on Tuesday. “We have reached an understanding with the Syrian government [Read More]
Fire crews on Wednesday battled numerous blazes amid a heatwave and have controlled most of them in Syria’s northwestern province of Latakia, said officials. Amer Ismail Hilal, governor of Latakia, said that firefighters have been [Read More]
Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous said on Monday that the country’s economic turmoil is worsening as the national currency continues to depreciate. Arnous made the remarks during an emergency session to tackle the worsening economic [Read More]
A fresh Israeli missile strike targeting military sites in and around the Syrian capital Damascus wounded two Syrian soldiers after midnight Wednesday, said the Syrian military in a statement. The Syrian air defenses intercepted most [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he is open to meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but only if the meeting is unconditional and requires no preconditions. Erdogan made the remarks during [Read More]
Firefighters have been battling massive forest wildfires in central, western and northwestern Syria since Wednesday, said state-run and pro-government media outlets. The fires broke out in the countryside of the central province of Hama, the [Read More]
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