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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 ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (2nd R) talks with Syrian women during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp which shelters some 80,000 Syrian refugees on the Jordanian border with war-ravaged Syria on March 28, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

March 28th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

New UN chief Antonio Guterres visits Zaatari refugee camp ahead of Arab Summit in Jordan

A photo by the Syrian defector known as "Cesar" on displaying in the United States. (AFP)

March 28th, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Spanish court investigates Syrian government officials over man’s execution

Mohammed Alloush, a Syrian opposition commander, at the Astana peace talks in January 2017. (AFP)

March 27th, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Syrian opposition pessimistic about possibility for progress at peace talks

Militants and their families gather as they prepare to board a bus ahead of their evacuation from the al-Waer neighborhood of the Syrian city of Homs, March 18, 2017. (AFP/File)

March 27th, 2017 - 01:00 GMT

Militants, civilians evacuated from opposition-held area in Syria’s Homs

Members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, stand under an Islamic State (IS) group banner in the recently recaptured town of Al-Karamah, near the IS bastion of Raqqa, on March 26, 2017. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

March 27th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

US-backed forces capture key airbase from Daesh near Raqqa

Tabqa dam (File photo)

March 27th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Shelling near water-barrier in Syria about to cause another humanitarian disaster

Syrian opposition forces near Raqqa, 2017. (AFP/ Delil Souleiman)

March 23rd, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Deputy UN Special Envoy for Syria meets with regime and opposition delegations

A Daesh militant in Raqqa, Syria (AFP)

March 23rd, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

It is now 'impossible' for Raqqa’s civilians to get medical treatment, activists say

Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria. (AFP/File)

March 22nd, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Turkish military trades cross-border fire with Syrian Kurds

Archival image shows rubble from bombed-out buildings in the city of Raqqa, November 2014 (AFP)

March 22nd, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

US-led coalition accused of killing 33 civilians in Raqqa

Smoke billows following a reported air strike in the rebel-held parts of the Jobar district, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on March 20, 2017. (AFP/Amer Almohibany)

March 22nd, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

EU sanctions four senior Syrian military officials over chemical weapons use

Kurdish troops in Syria. (AFP/File)

March 21st, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Extending influence in Syria, Russia says it will train Kurdish troops