Returning Syrian refugees face abduction, sexual abuse: UN
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian refugees who fled the war are facing gross human rights violations such as torture and abduction on their return home while women are subject to sexual harassment and…
Russian jets said to step up strikes on Syrian rebel enclave
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian jets bombed villages and towns near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding dozens in a major…
Turkey’s Erdogan faces struggle to meet Syrian refugee promise
By Burcu Karakas, Ece Toksabay, Huseyin Hayatsever and Maya Gebeily ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan played up his plans to repatriate a million Syrian refugees as he rode a wave of…
US targets Syrian money service businesses in fresh sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday imposed punitive measures on two Syrian money service businesses it said help the government maintain access to the international financial system…
Syria says Israel hits Homs outposts, sources say air bases bombed
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi (Reuters) – Israeli forces carried out air strikes on outposts in Syria’s Homs province in a raid early on Sunday, Syria’s defence ministry said, while Western intelligence sources said…
Pentagon Reveals More Casualties From Syrian Airstrikes
Pentagon Reveals More Casualties From Syrian Airstrikes Micaela Burrow on March 30, 2023 The Pentagon has revealed additional injuries to U.S. personnel following the tit-for-tat strikes in Syria last week as well…
‘I Don’t Believe You’: Tom Cotton Calls Out Biden’s Defense Sec Over Handling Of Syrian Airstrikes
‘I Don’t Believe You’: Tom Cotton Calls Out Biden’s Defense Sec Over Handling Of Syrian Airstrikes Micaela Burrow on March 28, 2023 Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton sparred with Secretary of Defense…
Israel hits areas in Syria’s Hama and Tartous countryside – Syrian state media
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) -Israel launched several rocket strikes on areas in Syria’s Hama province and the coastal Tartous countryside on Sunday, Syrian state media reported. Rockets flew from across northern…
In Syrian government areas, quake survivors and rescuers struggle
LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) – The last thing Nuhad Dawoud heard before his home collapsed on top of him was the sound of his wife praying as the walls of their home shook…
Quake forces Syrian family from Aleppo home after surviving war
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – Masoud Douba did not abandon his home over years of bombardment in the Bustan al-Basha district on the frontline of Syria’s Aleppo but Monday’s earthquake forced his family…
Sussex County Woman Sentenced to 34 Months in Prison for Concealing Terrorist Financing to Syrian Foreign Terrorist Organizations
NEWARK, N.J. – A Sussex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for concealing her attempts to provide material support to Syrian foreign terrorist organizations, U.S. Attorney…
Russia, Syria restore Syrian air base for joint use
(Reuters) – Russia and Syria have restored the al-Jarrah military air base in Syria’s north to be jointly used, Russia’s Defence Ministry said late on Monday. “Russian and Syrian military personnel restored…
Former federal agent receives sentence for corruption in connection to illicit Syrian relationship
HOUSTON –A 49-year-old former special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has been sent to prison following her conviction of obstructing justice, making false statements and accepting money and gifts for…
Islamic State leader killed in Free Syrian Army operation in mid-October- U.S
By Mahmoud Mourad and Yomna Ehab CAIRO (Reuters) -Islamic State (IS) militant leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi was killed in an operation carried out by the rebel Free Syrian Army in mid-October…
Syrian Democratic Leader Begs US To Act As Turkey Gears Up For Invasion
Syrian Democratic Leader Begs US To Act As Turkey Gears Up For Invasion Micaela Burrow on November 23, 2022 A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) leader representing U.S. allies in the fight against…
Syrian Refugee Gets 17 Years For Plotting To Bomb Church To Avenge ISIS
Syrian Refugee Gets 17 Years For Plotting To Bomb Church To Avenge ISIS Micaela Burrow on November 9, 2022 The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday sentenced a Syrian refugee living in…
Deadly bus attack kills 18 Syrian soldiers in Damascus countryside -Sham FM
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – At least 18 soldiers were killed and 20 wounded on Thursday when an explosive device detonated on a military bus in the Damascus countryside, local outlet Sham FM said.…
Rare U.S. raid in Syrian gov’t-held zone kills Islamic State arms smuggler
By Orhan Qereman, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Phil Stewart QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) -A rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria’s northeast killed an Islamic State militant hiding out there and…
More than 30 migrants dead, more than a dozen rescued in Syrian waters
By Kinda Makieh and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian authorities have found 34 bodies and rescued more than a dozen migrants off the coast of the northern port city of Tartus…
New batch of Syrian prison photos opens ‘old wounds’
By Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi BEIRUT/IDLIB (Reuters) -It had been nearly a decade since Mahmoud al-Khalaf laid eyes on his father, but he immediately recognised the bruised and battered face in…
U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces move to halt ‘brutal torture’ at IS camp
AL-HOL, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish security forces have launched a new operation targeting Islamic State sleeper cells in a large northeastern detention camp where violence has reached record levels. At…
Israeli strikes hit Iranian targets near Russia’s Mediterranean bases – sources
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN -Israel hit Iranian targets in a series of strikes on Sunday near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, and close to Russia’s main Syrian…
Crushed by war, Syrian tourism eyes expat uptick
DAMASCUS – Somar Hazim had high hopes when he opened a hotel in Damascus in 2009, adding to a growing number of boutique guest houses in the Old City that were proving…
Sussex County Woman Admits Concealing Terrorist Financing to Syrian Foreign Terrorist Organizations
NEWARK, N.J. – A Sussex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted that she concealed her attempts to provide material support to Syrian foreign terrorist organizations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Assistant Attorney…
Former federal agent convicted of corruption in connection to illicit Syrian relationship
HOUSTON –A 48-year-old former special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has been convicted of obstructing justice, making false statements and accepting money and gifts for official acts, announced U.S. Attorney…
Syrian, Russian forces boosted after Turkey signals operation – officials
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Orhan Coskun AMMAN/ANKARA – Russia and Syrian government forces have been bolstered in northern Syria where Turkey may soon launch an offensive against Kurdish fighters, Turkish and rebel…
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