A new Israeli missile strike hit Damascus after midnight Wednesday, the state-run SANA news agency said. According to SANA, Syrian air defenses intercepted several Israeli missiles as people in the capital heard several powerful explosions. [Read More]
Around 500,000 Syrian refugees have registered for their voluntary return from Lebanon to their homeland, and Lebanon and called on the international community and donors to facilitate their forthcoming homeward return. Abbas Ibrahim, chief of [Read More]
Ahmed Salma, a Syrian refugee, was moving anxiously from one room to the next at Halba Governmental Hospital in Lebanon’s northern province of Akkar, where his seven children were being treated for cholera, one of [Read More]
Syria is open to discussing maritime border demarcation with Lebanon, the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon said last night. Ali Abdel Karim was quoted by Lebanon’s Presidency as saying that “the communication between Syria and Lebanon [Read More]
Israel launched on Friday night a missile attack against military sites around Syria’s capital Damascus, a statement from the Syrian military said. The Syrian air defenses were triggered by the attack and intercepted many of [Read More]
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen on Wednesday discussed means to reach a political solution for the Syrian crisis. During a meeting in Amman, Pedersen briefed Safadi on [Read More]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Tuesday announced that a senior Hamas delegation would visit Syria on Wednesday for the first time in 10 years. Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazem Qassem, told Xinhua that [Read More]
The visiting UN special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, on Monday called for progress on the political front to resolve the Syrian crisis. Speaking to reporters following his meeting with Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, [Read More]
Eighteen soldiers were killed and 27 others injured in an explosion on a military bus on the outskirts of the Syrian capital early on Thursday, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. The explosion was caused [Read More]
Several soldiers were killed in an explosion targeting a military bus transporting soldiers in the countryside here early on Thursday, local media Sham FM has reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war [Read More]
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