Kuwait has signed a grant agreement with UNICEF vowing to provide $4 million in donations to support internally displaced Syrians. Image Credit: Gulf News archive Kuwait City: The Kuwait Fund for Arab …
Syria’s Top Diplomat Moalem, Soft-Spoken Defender of Assad, Dies at 79
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria’s long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, an unyielding defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade old …
Syria’s veteran Foreign Minister Walid Muallem dies aged 79
Long-time Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, one of the most prominent public faces for President Bashar al-Assad’s government during the country’s civil war, has died aged 79. State media did not …
Wheat and fuel shortages overwhelm Syria
The country’s economic collapse has been aggravated by the pandemic, Lebanese banking crisis and international isolation …
Syria’s longtime Foreign Minister al-Moallem dies age 79
BEIRUT — Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country’s most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against President Bashar Assad, …
Dozens of US troops leave Syria’s Hasakah, cross into northern Iraq: Report
The US military has reportedly withdrawn dozens of its troops and armored vehicles from a base in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, and moved them to a location in the northern sector of …
Syria’s veteran foreign minister Walid Moalem dies: state TV
Syria’s top diplomat and long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade old …
‘The war riche’: Syrian elites skirt US sanctions amid economic turmoil
After a decade of war, the Syrian economy is in ruins, but a combination of profiteering and sanctions has produced some bizarre results. US-led sanctions are intended to pressure the Syrian …
America Needs a Syria Policy
As the world reacts to the U.S. election results, there is a chorus of celebration in places such as Europe about the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency. In the Middle East, however, there is more …
Syria: Lack of adequate COVID-19 response puts thousands of lives at risk
English News and Press Release on Syrian Arab Republic about Health and Epidemic; published on 12 Nov 2020 by Amnesty …