“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 […]
Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, also backed a “credible and inclusive” political process to form the next government as he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “We need to make sure that state institutions do not collapse, and that we get in humanitarian assistance as quickly as possible,” Pedersen said. “If […]
Syrians celebrated the day they called the “Friday of victory” with fireworks heralding the fall of the Assad dynasty. Assad’s fall has also led to fast-moving diplomatic developments, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken among envoys set to discuss Syria on Saturday in the Jordanian city of Aqaba. Turkey, meanwhile, will reopen its embassy […]
“They will take the necessary steps to reopen the embassy and discuss enhancing aid delivery,” the official said. Previous reports by Syria’s information ministry about a visit by Qatar’s intelligence chief on Thursday were untrue, the Qatari official said. The visit will come less than a week after Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s leading rebel […]
