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This blog is now closed, you can read more of our Middle East coverage here Five Israeli demonstrators protesting for the release of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 have been arrested outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin...Saturday, December 28, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
From Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s ‘life on a plate’ to Rose Matafeo introducing our puzzle special, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in December 2024 Continue reading...Friday, December 27, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Russian airstrikes on Christmas Day, the aftermath of the fall of Assad, remembering the Indian Ocean tsunami and a Boxing Day swim in Scotland: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists • Warning: this...Friday, December 27, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Readers respond to a piece by Jonathan Freedland in which he says a little deliberate optimism can go a long way I was drawn to Jonathan Freedland’s article ( ‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Middle East, read our full report: 17 reported killed in Syrian clashes after attempted arrest of former prison officer An IDF reservist soldier was killed in fighting in the central...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Security personnel and three armed men killed in clashes in Tartus province, a former Assad stronghold, say monitors Fourteen security personnel from Syria’s new authorities and three armed men were killed in clashes in Tartus province...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Former prisoners endured hearing fellow inmates being executed – but they are the lucky ones, with 100,000 people still missing Of all the horrors Mohammed Ammar Hamami remembers from his time in the Assad regime’s notorious Sednaya...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our coverage of the Middle East here Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man in a dawn raid on a refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Demonstrations flare after video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to tree Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early on Tuesday to protest against the burning of a...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Protests broke out in Christian communities across Damascus on Monday night after footage circulated on social media appearing to show gunmen setting a Christmas tree ablaze in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near Hama...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Decisions on fate of 6,500 Syrian asylum seekers suspended amid push to repatriate refugees after fall of regime A Syrian family say they are “fearing for their future” this Christmas after having an imminent decision on their asylum...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a...Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
UK-born wife of ousted Syrian leader is a divisive figure around world and, like her husband, is under sanctions The Kremlin has denied Turkish media reports suggesting that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the ousted Syrian...Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham regime, which has friendly relations with Turkey, is unlikely to tolerate Kurdish autonomy The fall of Bashar al-Assad after the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) takeover in Syria is bad news for the country’s Kurds....Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Palestinian medics say strikes included one which hit a tent camp in al-Mawasi Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati , has begun a tour of military positions in the country’s south, almost a month after a ceasefire deal that...Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a traumatic past. The pair travel to...Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
NGOs urge authorities to enforce child-protection measures, citing violence and alarming living conditions Greece is facing a refugee “children’s emergency” as the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the country rises and concern...Monday, December 23, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
Uncertainty over the disappeared is forcing many to confront the brutal reality of Assad’s military prisons The last time Alaa Qasar saw her father, in 2013, he studied her face as if he was trying to memorise it. Moutaz Adnan Qasar had...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
The rebel group that toppled the Assad regime finds early success as it reinvents itself to gain international support Diplomacy is often known as the art of making the impossible possible. If so, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s de facto...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from World news: Syria | theguardian.com
‘Every day we see people scavenging through trash looking for food or material to burn for warmth,’ says UN agency spokesperson Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan , has met with Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al Sharaa - also known as...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...Thursday, November 28, 2024 from Syrian Arab News Agency
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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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...Thursday, February 15, 2018 from Zawya.com - Syria News
King Salman holds talks with Russian Energy Minister Alexander NovakWednesday, February 14, 2018 from Zawya.com - Syria News
The new centre will empower Syrian refugeesMonday, 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.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.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...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...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 –...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...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...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...