Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa didn’t take office through an election. He took it after a dominant military victory. His forces swept into Damascus last winter, ending Bashar al-Assad‘s decades-long rule and installing a transitional government with himself at the top. But for all the baggage he brings with him, as a former rebel commander, a…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 19 (UPI) — U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Thursday that the international community and financial institutions must support efforts to secure the safe return of Syrian refugees to their country, noting that some 2 two million have returned since Bashar al Assad’s regime fell in December. Grandi said he discussed with…
Syrian insurgents toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s on Sunday after a stunning, two-week offensive that saw major cities slip from the regime’s fingers one by one, until rebel forces captured the capital Damascus almost without a fight. More than 50 years of Assad family rule in Syria collapsed with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave in…
Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of Syria early Sunday morning as rebels closed in on his palace. He arrived in Moscow…
The head of the Israeli military has threatened further retaliation to any additional attacks launched from across the northern border with Lebanon, while neighboring Syria has issued a warning to Israel after accusing it of recent airstrikes. In remarks delivered Tuesday during a visit to Israel’s Northern Command, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff…
FILE – A human chain is formed in a vigil calling for maintaining a U.N. resolution authorizing the passage of humanitarian aid into Syria’s rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, July 2, 2021. The United States and Russia reached a last-minute compromise Friday to keep humanitarian aid flowing…
Faeza Satouf, here speaking at a protest in Copenhagen, is one of the refugees who has had her status revoked – Getty images When Denmark became the first European country last month to revoke residence status for more than 200 Syrian refugees, it faced condemnation from EU lawmakers, the UN refugee agency and human rights…
Damascus Syria CAIRO/AMMAN – The Syrian army said Israel conducted a rocket attack Sunday evening on targets in the vicinity of Damascus. A Syrian army statement said the attack came from the Golan Heights and that it downed most of the missiles. An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment. In a briefing to supporters of…
Israelis are furious that their taxes are funding vaccines for the enemy. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia September 12, 2019. (photo credit: REUTERS/SHAMIL ZHUMATOV) The current Israeli discourse revolves around two main issues regarding the saga of the…
The conflict in Syria has seen the convergence of multiple, sometimes opposing forces in the skies over a near-decade-long civil war that today threatens to draw the United States’ foreign policy resources back into the quagmire, one in which its closest ally, Israel, and a leading rival, Russia, are among those operating in dangerous proximity….