Syria

Syria’s Kurds on Saturday handed four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands, reports BSS. The group consisted of a Dutch...

Bashar al-Assad has been elected president of Syria for the fourth time in a row. He was elected with more than 95 percent votes. However, the country’s opposition parties have called the election a farce. The...

Polling stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election guaranteed to return President Bashar al-Assad for a fourth term in office. The official news agency SANA declared voting had started as planned at 7:00 am (0400...

One Turkish soldier was killed and four others were injured in a rocket attack on Idlib in Syria. The casualties came after a rocket attack on a logistics fleet on Monday (May 10th). Reuters quoted the...

Syria is to hold a presidential election next month, the country’s parliament says – a move likely to maintain President President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power. Mr Assad is not expected to face serious opposition despite...

In a Syrian detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-of-five Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap. The 36-year-old widow — who is on...

The Turkish airforce conducted its first strikes in 17 months against a zone in north Syria held by Kurdish militia on Saturday night, a monitor said. “A Turkish fighter jet has struck military positions of Syrian...

POTUS Joe Biden stated on Friday that a US airstrike against an Iranian-backed militia in eastern Syria, the first since he took office, should be seen by Iran as a warning, reports BSS. Asked what the...

At least 12 pro-Iranian fighters were killed in an unidentified airstrike in eastern Syria on Saturday evening. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight airstrikes had been carried out targeting Iranian forces in the...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday that the United States would be expelled from Iraq and Syria and that Washington’s allies were now “hatefully rejecting” the country, reports BSS. “The United States cannot...