With the last remaining tooth and a broken arm, 80-year-old Shamsa Mohammad Bilal is trying her best to preserve the Syrian traditional art of silk knotting and dyeing. Being the last person in Syria practicing [Read More]
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has said that Turkey should show “absolute positiveness,” mainly by ending its occupation of Syrian territories, in order to restore its relations with Syria. Mekdad made the remarks at a [Read More]
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday warned Syrian opposition groups against “provocations” amid ongoing protests over normalization talks between Ankara and Damascus. Akar pledged his country will not take any actions against the Syrian [Read More]
The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution to confirm the re-authorization of cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for another six months, till July 10, 2023. Resolution 2672 confirms Resolution 2642 of July 2022, [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take “concrete steps” against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, Türkiye’s presidential office said in a statement. Erdogan told [Read More]
Israel launched a missile strike on Damascus International airport on Monday, killing two soldiers. The air attack at around 2:00 am local time (2300 GMT) has caused Damascus International Airport out of service and the [Read More]
The defense ministers of Russia, Syria and Turkey discussed the situation in Syria during talks held in Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Syrian Defense [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that he has suggested to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a trilateral meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and trilateral steps on security issues. “As [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Monday killed a senior member of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported. As a senior YPG member in Ayn [Read More]
BEIRUT – Syrian refugee Jamal Abu Lutfi and his family gathered around an old wood-burning stove in their tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa town of Saadnayel, worrying about their future after receiving a gloomy text message [Read More]
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