FILE – Shopkeeper waits for customers in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 15, 2022. Syria’s president early Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023 doubled public servant and retirees wages and pensions as the war-torn …
The legacy of chemical attacks and other atrocities won’t give Syria peace
No one from the Syrian regime has been held accountable for the Eastern … These narratives have been used to justify the passage of several laws aimed at appropriating the property and assets of …
Syrian Army shoots down 3 drones equipped with explosives
Units of Syrian armed forces shot down 3 drones laden with explosives suspected of being belonged to terrorists groups in the suburbs of Idlib and Hama province on Monday.
Turkish-backed extremist groups in Syria sanctioned by US – analysis
Al-Monitor noted that these groups were “accused of forcibly displacing and oppressing the local Kurdish population in northern Syria’s Afrin region.” The groups listed include the Suleiman Shah …
Russia launches missile attack on terrorists bases in Syria
Media sources reported that Russian warplanes launched large-scale attacks on the headquarters and weapon depots of the Al-Nusra terrorist group on the outskirts of Idlib in Northwestern Syria.
Illegal logging turns Syria’s forests into ‘barren land’
On a riverbank in war-ravaged Syria’s north, felling has reduced what was once a lush forest to dispersed trees and decimated trunks poking out from dry, crumbly soil.Twelve years of conflict that led …
Israeli jailed in Turkey for smuggling khat returns home after 4.5-year imprisonment
Aweke served over three years in prison, including a transfer to another facility after harassment by Syrian and Iranian inmates who discovered that he was Israeli. He was released to house arrest and …
Mysterious US Military Movements in Iraq… Syria a Possible Target
Photos of US military convoys moving in separate cities are circulating on the local media in Iraq amid reports that the Shiite factions are “aware of an imminent operation, and have been asked to …
The US must act against Assad’s Syrian narco-state
Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (C) and his Vice President Faruq Al-Shara (back L) and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (back R) head the Syrian delegation to the Arab Summit in …
Protests in southern Syria as economy worsens
Syria’s economy is in tatters, and the removal of subsidies has led to relatively rare protests in government territory.