The European Union is ready to impose stricter sanctions on high-level Syrian regime officials and scientists who were involved in using chemical weapons against civilians, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency [ More … ]
NATO allies condemn continued indiscriminate airstrikes by Assad regime and Russia in Idlib, Syria, says NATO chief All NATO member states expressed solidarity with Turkey in the wake of Thursday’s deadly Assad regime attack in [ More … ]
Despite severe casualties, regime forces backed by Russia take control of villages in Aleppo countryside Hundreds of forces of the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime have been neutralized amid operations over the last two weeks in [ More … ]
Turkey has warned Russian authorities to avoid confrontation with the Turkish military in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, as the country is retaliating against the Bashar Assad regime for a recent attack that killed four soldiers [ More … ]
The struggles of civilians in northwestern Syria’s Idlib continue. Many have gone underground from fear of the heavy airstrikes by the Bashar Assad regime and Russia that recently devastated basic services and daily life in [ More … ]
Republican Senator John McCain says Trump’s comments that US military would leave Syria ‘very soon’ emboldened Assad US President Donald Trump delivered a scathing attack on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after dozens of people were [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The fundamental problem in relation to the civil war in Syria, which is about to complete its seventh year, laid bare the burning truth once more after the Bashar Assad regime’s operations [ More … ]
Russia will have permanent access for its warships in Syrian waters and ports as deal signed earlier this year is enacted Russia has started establishing a permanent military presence at naval and air bases in [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman landed in Moscow on Wednesday, in the first official visit to Russia, where he is expected to discuss energy and regional affairs. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, [ More … ]
The Assad regime has dropped no less than 244 barrel bombs in supposedly conflict-free zones in Syria, according to a rights group. The brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad dropped at least 244 barrel bombs in [ More … ]
Syrian free speech activist and open software developer Bassel Kharabil was executed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, The Jimmy Wales Foundation reported on Tuesday. “Today we received the horrific news that Bassel was executed immediately after his disappearance [ More … ]
UN says food and non-food aid delivered to 7,200 needy people, days after further aid deliveries in Eastern Ghouta A region besieged by government forces east of Syria’s capital on Sunday received UN aid for [ More … ]
Pro-Syrian regime forces reached al-Sukhna town, as IS militants deserted their last outpost in Homs province. Syrian regime forces reached the outskirts of the Islamic State group’s last town in the country’s central province of [ More … ]
Trump made the comments in a meeting with Lebanon’s prime minister in Washington US President Donald Trump vowed to prevent Syria’s Bashar al-Assad from carrying out any more chemical attacks, in comments made during his [ More … ]
High-ranking military, scientists listed over targeting of civilians Sixteen individuals suspected of involvement in Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program were added to a EU sanctions list Monday. The eight high-ranking Syrian military officials and eight [ More … ]
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