Bashar al-Assad prayed on Monday at a mosque in a Damascus suburb that was evacuated by rebels and surrendered to government control last month and vowed to retake all the rebel-held areas in the country, state [ More … ]
Shiite Iraqi families are being sent to the newly evacuated areas in Syria, like Darayya, to change the demographics in the country, according to sources close to the activities of the Iranian-backed armed militias in [ More … ]
Buses carrying more than 300 Syrians left the besieged Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya on Friday, in the first stage of a deal that will enable the Assad regime to retake control of the rebel-held area, [ More … ]
Darayya is – or used to be – a sizeable town in the Damascus countryside. A working and middle-class suburb of the capital, it was also an agricultural centre, famed in particular for its delicious [ More … ]
The UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said that the situation in Darayya was seriously grave and the UN did not take part in the negotiations which resulted in the truce. De Mistura also [ More … ]
The first buses carrying residents and rebel fighters left the Damascus suburb of Darayya on Friday under a deal that will see the area evacuated after a four-year siege by government forces. Aid convoys arranged [ More … ]
The train of systematic displacement, under UN patronage, has reached Darayya station. The international organization is completing its mission represented in forcefully uprooting residents from their areas. Activists from Darayya published many touching video footage [ More … ]
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