While this Thanksgiving celebration was very different from past ones at home, U.S. service members say there’s still plenty to feel grateful for.
UN: Urgent aid needed for 3 million refugees in northern Syria
A third of displaced Syrians lack adequate shelter and essentials for cold weather in Idlib and Aleppo, the UN says.
Al-Jaafari: Coercive measures target all Syrian people, deprive them from obtaining their basic livelihood needs, they should be lift
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari renewed that the Western coercive economic measures imposed on Syria targeted the simplest details of the daily life of the …
Russian-Syrian Business Council provides aid to families affected by terrorism in Damascus
Syrian Business Council, with the participation of the Russian Association for Development of Friendly Relations with Syria, on Thursday distributed food baskets to about a thousand of families …
U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria celebrate Thanksgiving under the shadow of COVID-19
For many U.S. service members deployed in the Middle East, there’ll be no festive Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday. Instead, they’re practicing strict social distancing, and stuck with take-out meals.
Arab Pop Idol judge’s husband is charged by police after shooting dead a masked intruder armed with a fake gun in Lebanon
Arab Idol judge Nancy Ajram – shot Syrian Mohammed Hassan al-Moussa 16 times during the break-in north of Beirut.
‘Europe’s Guantanamo’ breeds new generation of Isis militants in Syria
The children who sicken and die are buried in hasty graves beyond the perimeter wire. Felled by chest infections, severe malnutrition and chronic diarrhoea, some have their place beneath the desert …
From Syria to West Hartford: Refugee family thriving, growing
Foza and Fadi Alassaf weren’t thinking about the United States. They were hoping life would improve in their native Syria. They lived in Homs, a center of anti-government protests. Eventually, the …
Suspect in Swiss knife attack had tried to travel to Syria
Swiss federal police say a woman suspected of carrying out a knife attack that injured two other women and is being investigated as possible terrorism had formed a relationship online with a jihadi in …
UAE suspends new visas for Pakistan due to ‘security concerns’: report
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan, according to a document issued by a …