“Over the past three days, 4,000 Iranian citizens were returned to Iran,” Fatemeh Mohajerani, a spokeswoman for Iran’s government, said at a press conference in the capital. On Sunday morning, assailants rummaged through furniture and documents at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, according to footage. Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, said embassy staff had […]
Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Assad’s fall, in what Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described as a “limited and temporary step” for “security reasons”. It has also carried out “about 250 air strikes on Syrian territory” over the last 48 hours to […]
Al Jazeera television reported that the Syrian transitional authority would be headed by Mohammed Al Bashir, who ran the administration in a small pocket of rebel-held territory before the 12-day lightning offensive that swept into Damascus. A source close to the Syrian rebels in Idlib confirmed Mohammed Al Bashir had been nominated, though there had […]
Daraa was dubbed “the cradle of the revolution” early in Syria’s civil war after activists accused the government of detaining and torturing a group of boys for scribbling anti-Assad graffiti on their school walls in 2011. While Aleppo and Hama, the two other main cities taken from government control in recent days, fell to an […]
At her weekly news briefing in Islamabad today, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said Pakistan has consistently advocated constructive engagement and result-oriented dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. She, however, said the political will to resolve disputes and differences through dialogue seems lacking on India’s part. Zahra Baloch […]
Two regional intelligence sources said a major military research centre for chemical arms production located near Misyaf had been hit several times. It is believed to house a team of Iranian military experts involved in weapons production. There was no immediate comment from Israel, which typically does not comment on specific reports of strikes in […]
Talks opened in Qatar’s capital amid a wider international diplomatic bid to ease tensions that have spiked since the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. An Israeli delegation attended the Doha talks, which also involved US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington […]
The fate of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey hangs in the balance amid fears that they may become pawns in the country’s changing politics. Syrian refugees have become central in the political debate in Turkey ahead of elections next year. Calls to repatriate them to war-torn Syria used to be the cause of fringe, […]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have tested positive for Covid-19; the president’s office said in a statement Monday. The president and his wife; Asma al-Assad; were tested for the coronavirus after they felt “mild symptoms,” according to the statement; which confirmed that the test came back positive. “Both are in good health […]
The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled Shamima Begum, a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after fleeing to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), should not be allowed to return to the country to challenge the decision, because she poses a security risk. Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and traveled […]
