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September 22nd, 2025 - 06:06 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Syrian community in a historic US visit

ALBAWABA - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has made a historic visit to the United States on Sunday, becoming the first Syrian leader to land in Washington in about since 1967. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that al-Sharaa arrived in New York on Sunday in a "historic visit" to attend the UN General Assembly, marking the first appearance by a Syrian leader in the US at the annual ...

Opposition fighters carrying a rocket launcher during clashes against government forces in the Sheikh Lutfi area, west of the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo (AFP)

May 3rd, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Astana: Peace Talks Without all Warring Factions at the Table

This file photo taken on January 23, 2017 shows chief opposition negotiator Mohammad Alloush (C) of the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) rebel group attending the first session of Syria peace talks at Astana's Rixos President Hotel. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

May 3rd, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Fourth Round of Syria Peace Talks Opens in Astana

A Syrian boy eats a piece of bread in a camp for the displaced in Ain Issa, May 1 2017. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

May 3rd, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

Daesh Kill Dozens at Refugee Camp in Syria’s North

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces removes a Daesh flag from an area in the Syrian city of Tabqa recently recaptured from them. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

May 2nd, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Not remaining nor expanding: 80 percent of Tabqa seized from Daesh

A picture shows smoke billowing following reported air strikes on rebel positions in the opposition-controlled district of Qaboun on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus in the Eastern Ghouta region on April 27, 2017. (AFP/Ammar Suleiman)

April 29th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Forty killed after clashes erupt between opposition, government forces near Damascus

Armed men in uniform identified by Syrian Democratic Forces as US special operations personnel ride in a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqa on May 25, 2016 (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

April 28th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

US commander enjoys 'flexible powers' in Syria

A woman pushes her elderly husband in a wheelchair in opposition-held Hamouria, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on April 26, 2017. (AFP/Abdulmonam Eassa)

April 27th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Russia is killing lots of Syrian civilians again

A medical helicopter from the US-led coalition flies near the Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, April 25 2017. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

April 27th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Kurds and Turks trade fire on Syria border

Airstrike Destroys Hospital in Syria's Idlib (AFP)

April 27th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Most hospitals destroyed in Idlib, causing humanitarian disaster

Dozens of chemical attacks have been carried out in Syria since the 2013 Ghouta attack former US President Barack Obama called a 'red line' (AFP)

April 27th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

Syrian regime exposed by chemical signature, France says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir enter a hall for a meeting in the Russian capital, Moscow, on August 11, 2015. (AFP)

April 26th, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Saudi Foreign Minister: Assad has to leave

The site of the April 3 blast on the St Ptersburg metro. (AFP/file)

April 26th, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

Unknown group claiming links to al-Qaeda says it bombed St Petersburg