• More than 20 dead after 'Islamic State suicide bombing' in Damascus church – video
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    A member of Islamic State opened fire on Sunday inside Mar Elias Church in the east of Damascus before blowing himself up, killing at least 22 people and injuring 63 others, Syria’s interior ministry said. Eyewitnesses inside the church...
  • Islamic State suicide bombing in Damascus church leaves many dead and dozens injured
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Evening attack is first major atrocity by Islamist terror group in Syria since President al-Assad was deposed A suicide bombing by Islamic State (IS) targeting a church in Damascus has killed 20 people and wounded 52, Syrian authorities...
  • Iran’s proxy militias may not want to help if Tehran opts to hit back at US
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Weakening of ‘axis of resistance’ forces leaves Iran with limited options if it chooses to retaliate Middle East crisis – latest updates Iran’s proxy militias across the Middle East have yet to retaliate for the overnight strikes against...
  • Nuclear non-proliferation is a failure in the Middle East | Letters
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Unless Israel is open about its nuclear weapons and joins the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will one day have the bomb, writes Corrado Pirzio-Biroli . Plus, letters by Hubert Cassel, Dr Anthony Isaacs and Randhir Singh Bains I agree...
  • The Guardian view on Netanyahu’s Iran war: long planned, recklessly pursued – and perilous for all | Editorial
    Monday, June 16, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Israel’s strikes against Tehran risk spiralling conflict, flout legal norms and may permanently bury the last chance for nuclear diplomacy In late 2020, Gen Mark Milley – then chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff – urged Donald Trump...
  • Syrian general says missing US journalist Austin Tice was killed
    Monday, June 16, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Bassam Hassan, a top general under Assad, reportedly gave news regarding American who went missing in 2012 A high-ranking Syrian general under former president Bashar al-Assad who is now in Lebanon has reportedly told US investigators...
  • German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in jail for crimes against humanity
    Monday, June 16, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Alaa Mousa accused of torturing detainees at military hospitals during Syrian civil war under former ruler Bashar al-Assad A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in his home country –...
  • Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad
    Sunday, June 8, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush They come by night. Armed with pickaxes, shovels and jackhammers, looters disturb the dead. Under the cover of darkness, men exhume...
  • Israel attacks Syrian targets after projectiles launched toward its territory
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Israel’s defence minister says he holds Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa responsible for the two projectile launches Israel hit southern Syria with a series of strikes overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday, saying it had targeted weapons...
  • Hamas denies rejecting US-led Gaza deal as Israel confirms it killed Mohammed Sinwar – as it happened
    Saturday, May 31, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Militant group calls for changes to US proposal as IDF confirms it killed Hamas leader on 13 May The Times of Israel reports that today, a convoy of tractors that set out from kibbutzim across Israel has arrived at Hostages Square in Tel...
  • Israeli airstrikes target sites in western Syria, reportedly killing one
    Friday, May 30, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Attack follows announcement of indirect talks between Damascus and Israel aimed at reducing tensions between the longterm antagonists Israeli airstrikes have struck western Syria , the Israeli military and Syrian state media have said,...
  • The Guardian view on a new Syria: nurturing fragile hope amid the rubble | Editorial
    Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Sanctions relief thanks to Donald Trump’s unexpected embrace of the new president gives a shattered country the chance to rebuild The startled joy that greeted Bashar al-Assad’s fall less than six months ago was always shadowed by the...
  • ‘I just want security’: fear remains for Syrian massacre survivors awaiting justice
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Relatives of those killed in March attacks on Alawite towns worry perpetrators are still at large as investigation draws out Haider* hid in the attic as gunmen rifled through his cousins’ belongings. “Is anyone upstairs? Don’t come down...
  • Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack
    Monday, May 26, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Muhammad Al Muhammad called a hero after helping to halt train station attack in which 18 people were injured A 19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway...
  • Trump envoy praises new Syrian president for ‘counter-ISIS measures’
    Sunday, May 25, 2025 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
    Thomas Barrack also stresses temporary lifting of sanctions for first time since 1979 after meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa Donald Trump’s old friend Thomas Barrack, now serving as the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria,...
  • Zakharova stresses Russia’s continued support for Syria
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Moscow, SANA- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stressed that the major Western powers continue their hostile practices and attacks against Syria. “Attempts to target the Syrian state, its sovereignty and independence...
  • A children’s celebration in Aleppo within the Syrian Culture Days, Photos
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
  • “Syrian pottery through ages“ within activities of Syrian Culture Days in Damascus
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Damascus, SANA- Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums held an exhibition entitled “Syrian Pottery Through Ages” at Damascene hall at Damascus National Museum within activities of Syrian Culture Days, Damascus. The exhibition...
  • UNRWA: 75,000 Palestinians northern Gaza strip face ‘diminishing conditions for survival’
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    New York, SANA – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that lives of 75,000 Palestinians still in northern Gaza Strip are in danger, as a result of the Israeli occupation preventing the entry...
  • Two Lebanese injured as Israeli enemy targeted Markaba town
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Beirut, SANA-Two Lebanese were injured Thursday as Israeli enemy aircraft targeted Markaba town, south of Lebanon, in a new violation of the ceasefire agreement that was announced on Wednesday. The Lebanese News Agency said that enemy...
  • Armed forces continue to repel terrorist attack on Aleppo and Idleb countryside, leaving heavy losses
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Damascus, SANA- Our armed forces continued to confront the large-scale terrorist attack carried out by terrorist organizations in Aleppo and Idleb countryside. “The terrorist organization “Jabhat al-Nusra” positioned in Aleppo and Idleb...
  • 13 Martyrs in occupation bombing of several areas in Gaza Strip
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- 13 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured on Thursday in Israeli occupation air force bombing several areas in the afflicted Gaza Strip. Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation air force bombed...
  • One Palestinian injured by occupation forces fire, others arrested in the West Bank
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Occupied Jerusalem, SANA-One Palestinian was injured and six others were arrested on Thursday in Israeli occupation forces’ storming of several areas in the West Bank. Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation soldiers...
  • 25 Ukrainian drones downed by Russian forces over several districts
    Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    Moscow, SANA- Russian forces shot down 25 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions. “Kiev regime attempts to carry out terrorist drones’ attacks, Wednesday night, on Russian territory were thwarted, as aerial defense systems...
  • Syria reaffirms its firm stance in support of the Palestinian people
    Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
    New York, SANA- Syria reaffirmed its firm stance in support of the Palestinian people and their rights to self-determination, return to their homeland and to establish their independent state on all of their occupied territories, with...
  • Terrorists Massive Network of Tunnels in Douma
    Tuesday, April 17, 2018 from SyriaNews
    A Note to US Citizens in Particular: What you are going to watch is done with full support of your government, mostly by your tax money, the Trump regime is now pushing the Saudis to pay back for. It was done to be used by terrorists who...
  • Syria Should Not Fall for the Objectives of the Failed Aggression
    Monday, April 16, 2018 from SyriaNews
    NATO and its regional stooges tried their best and shot their ‘nice, new and smart missiles’ against Syria targeting at least 8 SAA airports among other command centers in their bank of targets, and failed. Now they want to...
  • Message from the People of Douma
    Sunday, April 15, 2018 from SyriaNews
    On the same day the Western trio USA, UK and France launched their heinous attack against the Syrian nation in revenge for the cleaning of Douma and the whole of East Ghouta from their terrorists they invested in highly and dearly, the...
  • Breaking: US, UK and France Attack Syria, Commit War Crime
    Saturday, April 14, 2018 from SyriaNews
    On the morning of the Muslim’s commemorating Israa and Miraaj, the ascending of prophet Muhammad PBUH to heavens and to Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the pariah states of the USA, UK and France illegally, unlawfully, without consent,...
  • Douma and Ghouta is Completely Terrorists-Free
    Thursday, April 12, 2018 from SyriaNews
    The last batch of terrorists left the city of Douma, last stronghold of terrorists in East Ghouta, in the vicinity of Damascus. Syrian Arab Army with a government delegation and a unit of Russian military police entered the city and the...
  • European Hypocrisy Threatens Airlines and Commercial Flights
    Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from SyriaNews
    The ‘EU Europeans’ disregard for human lives can be obviously demonstrated in their double-standards especially when it comes to the lives of their own people traveling by airlines over and into Saudi Arabia, where money is...
  • New York Times Misleading News, Again
    Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from SyriaNews
    “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are unifromed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed”. I guess Mark Twain was very much talking about the New York Times. I received the daily brief of the New York...
  • Last Terrorists of Douma: Jaish, Helmets & SAMS Collaborate in Massacre
    Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from SyriaNews
    The last terrorists of Douma have engaged in a ghastly repeat of the heinous atrocities in Khan Sheikhoun, just days after the first anniversary of their slaughter, there.  Though the dominant alQaeda faction there is alNusra, the...
  • Families of Kidnapped: Tell Us if They Are Alive or Dead
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from SyriaNews
    Families of kidnapped are pouring onto the streets from the Faiha Stadium, where hundreds have been waiting to find out if their children, parents, cousins will be found among the living. In that Douma agreement, terrorist gangs Jaish al...
  • Israel Attacks T4 Airport SAA Uses to Fight ISIS
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from SyriaNews
    Israeli fighter jets launch an attack in the dense of the night against the T4 military airport in central Syria from Lebanese airspace. Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the attack was an Israeli carried out by two F15 fighter jets...
  • Saudi, Russia focus on rebalancing oil markets
    Thursday, February 15, 2018 from Zawya.com - Syria News
    King Salman holds talks with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak
  • Women, girl empowerment centre opened at Azraq refugee camp
    Wednesday, February 14, 2018 from Zawya.com - Syria News
    The new centre will empower Syrian refugees
  • New Damascus Housing Law Feeds Bribe Culture
    Monday, April 25, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    Damascus is facing a housing crisis as displaced Syrians stream into the capital. New government-imposed security regulations targeting the new arrivals are feeding an already vibrant culture of price manipulation and bribery.
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 25
    Monday, April 25, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including the effective collapse of the cease-fire, Obama's announcement of another 250 U.S. troops for Syria and a truce in Qamishli between Kurdish and government forces.
  • Women of Daraya: Help Us 'Avoid Another Madaya'
    Friday, April 22, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    After launching an awareness campaign highlighting deteriorating health conditions in Daraya, a Damascus suburb under government siege for more than three years, a group of women hope their efforts will help prevent yet another...
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 22
    Friday, April 22, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including the steady deterioration of both the cease-fire and the peace talks in Geneva as Russia shifts heavy artillery from Palmyra to the north, heavy ground battles between Kurdish and...
  • Haunting Memories: An Escape from Daraya
    Thursday, April 21, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    Journalist Rahaf Haboub grew up in Daraya, a Damascus suburb besieged by pro-government forces for more than three years. She and her family fled in fall 2012 after the government targeted the area with airstrikes and barrel bombs –...
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 21
    Thursday, April 21, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including the "pause" in the Geneva-based peace talks as Assad and his allies appear to be preparing for a major assault on opposition-held areas of Aleppo, another ISIS advance in Deir Ezzor and...
  • My Life Outside Syria: Diary Entry 64
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, has been sharing her stories of life in the war. With her mother and siblings, she left Syria and is now in Switzerland, where she's dealing with a new marriage, her first...
  • Women’s Advisory Board in Geneva Sparks Controversy
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    After being repeatedly accused of sidelining the role and demands of Syrian women at the negotiation table in Geneva, the U.N. established the Syrian Women’s Advisory Board to consult with Staffan de Mistura. But the board's makeup has...
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 20
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including the collapse of the peace talks in Geneva and the cease-fire on the ground, deadly air raids on two Idlib markets, a Russian-backed counteroffensive in Latakia and another refusal by the...
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 19
    Tuesday, April 19, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including thousands of civilians trapped at the Turkish border with Syria in the northern district of Azaz, the opposition's halt on peace talks in Geneva as violations of the truce continue and...
  • 36 Mass Graves Uncovered in Deir Ezzor: Activists
    Monday, April 18, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    Members of an underground activist network named "Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently" have scoured government and ISIS-controlled territories across the oil-rich province and discovered 36 mass graves – allegedly the grisly work of...
  • Syria Deeply Executive Summary for April 18
    Monday, April 18, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    We review the key developments in Syria, including major ground battles between rebels and government forces in rural Latakia, the opposition's threat to quit the Geneva peace talks if violence continues and the victory of Bashar...
  • Underground Clinics Help War Wounded to Fight On
    Friday, April 15, 2016 from Syria Deeply Articles
    Backstreet doctors in the border town of Reyhanli and elsewhere in southern Turkey are caring for injured rebel fighters. Funded by armed opposition groups, the network of underground hospitals is patching up militants and sending them...
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