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President Ahmed Al-Sharaa

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 ...

A Syrian boy stands against a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on April 24, 2017. (AFP/Abd Doumany)

April 26th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

UN chief Guterres says forced evacuations in Syria may be war crimes

Syrian women who fled from Daesh-controlled parts of Syria at the al-Mabrouka camp on the Turkish border, April 23 2017. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

April 25th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Fleeing Syrian family killed by apparent US airstrike

Moroccan Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani at a meeting in parliament, Rabat, April 19 2017. (AFP/Fadel Senna)

April 24th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Morocco and Algeria play politics with desperate Syrian refugees

Asma al-Assad, the wife of the Syrian President. (Syrian Presidency)

April 24th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Former British ambassador exposed as working for Assad

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis (AFP)

April 22nd, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

US Secretary of Defense: Syria still in possession of chemical weapons

A convoy of ambulances transporting wounded civilians and rebels from the villages of Fuaa and Kafraya, the last two regime-held villages in Idlib province, is guarded as it heads towards the Cilvegozu crossing with Turkey on December 28, 2015 (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 21st, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Evacuations in four Syrian towns resume after two-day suspension

Civilians from besieged government-held villages Fuaa and Kafraya wait to be handed over from opposition to government forces near Aleppo, April 19 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 19th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Perilous evacuations continue for thousands of Syrians despite Aleppo massacre

Syrians, who were injured in a suicide car bombing that targeted buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns, sit in a tent on the Syrian-Turkish border in Idlib province on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 18th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

HRW: US failed to take precautions in mosque attack that killed dozens

Asma al-Assad greets a Syrian woman, 21 March. (Syrian Presidency)

April 18th, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

British MPs call for Asma al-Assad to be stripped of her British citizenship

An architectural reconstruction of the mosque hit in a March 16 US airstrike in Aleppo province. (Forensic Architecture)

April 18th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Despite denials, rights groups say US airstrike did hit Syria mosque

A picture taken on April 16, 2017, shows the damage inside a bus a day after a suicide car bombing attack in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, targeted busses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 17th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

More than 60 children among dead in Syria bus bombing

The wreckage of buses targeted by a car bomb in Aleppo, Syria, killing at least 112. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 16th, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Rebels condemn syria bombing as death toll climbs to 112