Canada’s special envoy for Syria, Omar Alghabra, said: “Canada can play a meaningful role in enabling Syrians to build an inclusive country that respects all of its citizens. “We also can help prevent Syria from falling into chaos and instability.” A statement from Canada’s foreign ministry said sanctions would be eased “to allow funds to […]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were killed in “executions by security forces and allied groups”, adding that the toll was still rising as more bodies were found, with the latest deaths recorded in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus and the neighboring central province of Hama. Syria grapples with the […]
Photos showed interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi shaking hands in Damascus on the agreement that provides for SDF-controlled civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria to be integrated with the state. The accord came at a critical moment as Sharaa grapples with the fallout from mass killings of Alawite minority members […]
“We agree that we are for the unity and integrity of Syrian territory and reject any division projects that threaten the country’s unity,” the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said in a written statement to AFP. He spoke following a meeting he described as “positive” between Kurdish leaders and the […]
“The Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Military Operations Department, begins a wide-scale combing operation in neighbourhoods of Homs city,” state news agency SANA said quoting a security official. The statement said the targets were “war criminals and those involved in crimes who refused to hand over their weapons and go to the settlement […]
“With the occupation of Syrian territories by the Zionist regime, a new resistance has been born that will manifest itself in the years to come,” said Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, IRNA news agency reported late Monday. In a meeting with Oman’s foreign minister, Ahmadian insisted that Iran’s anti-Israel axis of […]
Assad fled Syria after an Islamist-led offensive wrested from his control city after city until Damascus fell on December 8, ending his clan’s five-decade rule and more than 13 years of civil war. Syria’s new leaders from the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) face the monumental task of safeguarding the multi-sectarian, multi-ethnic country from […]
“We demand the rights of Christians,” protesters chanted as they marched through the Syrian capital towards the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood. The protests come a little more than two weeks after an armed coalition led by Islamists toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, who had cast himself as a […]
Barbara Leaf, Washington’s top diplomat for the Middle East, made the comments after she met with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus — the first formal mission to Syria’s capital by United States diplomats since the early days of Syria’s civil war. The lightning offensive that toppled President Bashar al-Assad on December 8 was led by the […]
Assad fled Syria just over a week ago, as his forces abandoned tanks and other equipment in the face of a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Rooted in Syria’s branch of Al-Qaeda, HTS is proscribed by several Western governments as a terrorist organization, though it has sought to moderate its […]
