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  • UN: ‘Syria’s devastation finds few parallels in recent history’

    Griffiths stated: "Over 350,000 people have been killed and nearly 14 million people have been displaced from their homes. Basic services have been destroyed. Five million children born since the start of the conflict have known nothing but hardship and nothing but war." He added: "Civilians continue to be killed and injured along front line areas of northwest and northeast Syria," citing that 18 civilians were killed in northwest Syria in February.

  • Assad’s first visit to an Arab country since the Syrian war began

    The UAE has been one of the few Arab countries within recent years that have been more open to engagement with Assad’s regime compared to neighboring states.

  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses problems for Syria’s Assad, experts say

    The European Union has been leading humanitarian assistance to Syria, having mobilised more than $25bn since 2011 and having organised five annual donor conferences since 2017. In 2021, the bloc sent more than $150m in humanitarian aid to the country. However, with the influx of more than three million Ukrainian refugees to EU countries, aid given to Syria may face renewed competition for resources.

  • Syria’s Assad visits UAE, first trip to Arab state since war began

    Assad met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan who "stressed that Syria is a fundamental pillar of Arab security, and that the UAE is keen to strengthen cooperation with it", Emirati state news agency (WAM) reported.

  • Opinion: Freeze and Build – A Strategic Approach to Syria Policy

    To adapt to this new environment, the international community must consider a comprehensive change in approach, prioritizing the freezing of conflict lines and a more strategic use of aid, stabilization, and targeted rebuilding in areas free of Assad regime rule.

  • Syria recruiting troops from its military to fight with Russian forces in Ukraine

    One such notice addressed to ”the men of the 4th Division security office’, offers an “employee contract for immediate enlistment and in addition to seeking basic details, provides a job description that includes “military raids, operations abroad and travel to Ukraine, with all provided. Salary is up to $3,000 depending on experience.”

  • Russia withdraws hundreds of Syrian fighters from Libya

    Since at least 2020, Moscow has actively recruited fighters from Syria under its ally, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, using them to assist the Russian-aligned former warlord, Khalifa Haftar, in the Libyan civil war. Rather than engaging in direct fighting, they are reported to have guarded sites and facilities under the control of Russian forces in the country.

  • Syria: 2 Civilians Killed in Israeli Airstrike Near Damascus

    Israel fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near the capital Damascus Monday, killing two civilians and causing material damage, Syria's defense ministry said. It was the first Israeli attack inside Syria since Russia, a key backer of President Bashar Assad, invaded Ukraine. The defense ministry said in a statement that Israeli warplanes flying over neighboring Lebanon fired the missiles toward Syria, adding that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles. It gave no further details or say how the civilians were killed.

  • Ukraine War: Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and Syria Feel U.S.-Russia Squeeze

    It was precisely their interest in preserving the international and regional status quo that aligned these countries with U.S. in the first place. The alliance of Western powers and Asian democracies, and the international order it has defended, was useful to them in the 20th century. Its revitalization ought to be just as attractive in the 21st.

  • Putin’s Assault on Ukraine Echoes Russia’s Brutal Battering of Syria

    A United Nations report into atrocities committed in Syria published last year accused Russia of direct involvement in war crimes and a “systemic failure to take any precautions to spare civilians from harm.” Moscow’s entry into the war in Syria in 2015 turned the conflict in Assad’s favor, and provided a real-life testing ground for the weaponry now being used against Ukrainians.