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  • China’s Xi offers to help war-torn Syria rebuild, regain regional status

    With an upgrade in diplomatic ties, China on Friday offered to help boost Syria's economy and counter domestic unrest in the war-torn country, while advancing its strategic interests in a region where it is already aligned with Iran and Saudi Arabia. "In the face of an unstable and uncertain international environment, China is willing to continue to work with Syria in the interests of friendly cooperation and safeguarding international fairness and justice," Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Syrian counterpart in Hangzhou.

  • Meet the Taekwondo warriors rising from the dust and ashes of Syria

    AbdelRahman Al Masri set out on a mission to create a sanctuary for all the children at the camp. The father of the three boys opened a space where children could heal from the traumas of war and build a bright future filled with hope. Drawing on his own experience of martial arts, he founded a Taekwondo training club. He believed this ancient discipline would give the kids, including his own, the physical and mental strength to overcome their pasts and do well in life. But it didn't come easily.

  • Russian Harassment of US Drones over Syria Drops After F-35s Arrive in the Middle East

    “It’s too early for us to tell if that’s a major change of behavior or just an aberration,” the U.S. official said of Russian operations. “Some of that may be in response to kind of our increasing presence as we brought the F-35 in.”

  • Anti-government protests in Syria spurred by economic crisis and inflation

    Anti-government anger is mounting in southern Syria, where rare protests in the heartland of the minority Druze community are now into their second week. The protests were initially driven by surging inflation and the war-torn country's economic crisis, but have quickly shifted focus, with marchers now calling for the fall of the Assad government.

  • Chart: Disappearances Continue in Syria

    According to a report newly released by The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), at least 155,604 people arrested in Syria between March 2011 and August 2023 are still under arrest and/or have been forcibly disappeared. This includes at least 5,213 children and 10,176 women.

  • Israeli strikes hit Syria’s Aleppo airport causing heavy damage

    The Israeli military attacked Aleppo International Airport in the early hours of Monday morning, according to Syrian state media, Sana. At about 4.30 am local time Israel carried out an “aerial act of aggression” from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, said the Syrian state news agency, Sana. It reported no casualties, but the Syrian transport ministry said the damage to the only functioning runway has put the airport out of service, adding that flights have been diverted to Damascus and Latakia airports.

  • Russian jets playing chicken with US planes over Syria, officials say

    Russia’s fighter jets are making dangerous head-on passes of U.S. jets over Syria, a U.S. spokesperson said, even as Russian media outlets are accusing the United States of doing the same. Russian fighters have approached U.S. and coalition forces’ aircraft multiple times over Syria in August, “including several high-speed, opposite-direction, close-aboard passes intended to force a reaction from our aircraft,” said Col. Mike Andrews of the U.S. Air Force Central Command.

  • Daesh group still has thousands in Syria and Iraq and poses Afghan threat, UN experts say

    Daesh still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today, UN experts said in a report circulated Monday. The experts monitoring sanctions against the militant group, also known by its Arab acronym Daesh, said that during the first half of 2023 the threat posed by IS remained “mostly high in conflict zones and low in non-conflict areas.” But the panel said in a report to the UN Security Council that “the overall situation is dynamic,” and despite significant losses in the group’s leadership and reduced activity in Syria and Iraq, the risk of its resurgence remains.

  • Syria’s Assad tamps down expectations of closer ties with Turkey, Arab world

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday tamped down expectations for his country's renewed ties with the Arab world, in his first televised interview since Damascus's membership of the Arab League was restored in May. In comments to Sky News Arabia in Damascus aired on Wednesday, Assad also said a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan could not happen due to a dispute over the withdrawal of Ankara's troops from rebel-held northwest Syria. Assad, 57, had been widely isolated over his crackdown on demonstrations that erupted against him in 2011 but the deadly earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in February fast-tracked a resumption of ties with the Arab world and with Ankara.

  • Syria extends UN aid deliveries via two Turkish crossings until Nov. 13

    Syria has extended its permission for the United Nations to deliver humanitarian aid via two Turkish border crossings until Nov. 13, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesperson said on Tuesday. "We greatly welcome the extension of permission by the Government of Syria to utilize the Bab al-Salam and Al Ra'ee border crossings until November 13th," Eri Kaneko said. After an earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria in February, Syria allowed the United Nations to use those two border crossings from Turkey to dispatch aid. The approval was due to expire on Aug. 13.