The UAE representative in Damascus, Abdul-Hakim Al-Naimi, reportedly hailed the “wise leadership” of Syrian regime leader Bashar Al-Assad and stressed that his country maintains “strong” relations with Syria. He hoped that “safety and security prevail [ More … ]
French UN ambassador raises risk of humanitarian catastrophe if government launches assault on rebel-held stronghold France has warned that escalating violence in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province will lead to a new humanitarian catastrophe as thousands [ More … ]
Riyadh said it offered to deploy troops to help stabilise the situation in Syria when President Barack Obama was in power Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir reaffirmed on Tuesday the kingdom’s willingness to deploy troops [ More … ]
Syrian civilians are forced into makeshift underground shelters under the streets of Douma – above them is only death The mothers soothe their children as they huddle together in a dark, airless hole in the [ More … ]
The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah said on Sunday that it is time for the world to accept that Assad will stay on as Syria’s leader. The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group [ More … ]
Syrian regime airstrikes on an opposition-held area east of Damascus killed eight people overnight, despite a truce that was supposed to have taken effect at the weekend. Syrian regime airstrikes on an opposition-held area east [ More … ]
In the first concrete results from talks this week on ending Syria’s conflict, the UN said Thursday the warring sides had agreed to set-up expert committees to discuss “constitutional issues.” In the first concrete results [ More … ]
Syrian activists say government forces have taken a village on the edge of a large cease-fire zone encompassing rebel-held territory in northwest Syria. Syrian activists say government forces have taken a village on the edge [ More … ]
Many voices in the UK has been calling that Bashar al-Assad’s wife should lose her British citizenship if she continues to support her husband and cover his crimes against the Syrian civilians. The Syrian crisis [ More … ]
The UK seems to be concentrating on finding a solution for Syria’s crisis even if this means worsening its relations with Russia, as it urged Putin again to abandon Assad and accept a new deal [ More … ]
French Foreign Minister slammed Bashar al-Assad again over the chemical attack in Syria, that was blamed on the regime and killed more than 87 civilians, saying that Assad’s latest remarks about the attack are “lies and propaganda”. [ More … ]
The US president Donald Trump slammed Russia for backing Assad regime and covering up its crimes in Syria while calling Assad an animal, in a new rift in the relationship between the two powers. More than [ More … ]
The Syrian crisis was one of the headlines in the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized nations meeting, as the Foreign ministers were looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Bashar al-Assad. In [ More … ]
Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday called on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to step down, urging Washington and Moscow to stop intervening in the Syrian conflict. The Najaf-based cleric condemned the killing of 87 people, [ More … ]
The Syrian opposition seems pessimistic and under pressure, after the latest peace talks ended without achieving its goals and the US changed its stance towards the Syrian crisis, making the opposition face hard challenges trying [ More … ]
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