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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 ...

Syrian boys on a bicycle on May 14, 2016 in the southern city of Daraa. (AFP/File)

November 22nd, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Almost one million civilians are living under siege in Syria: UN

Wounded Syrians are seen on a table in a crowded makeshift hospital in eastern Aleppo. (AFP/File)

November 20th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Aleppo hospitals all ‘bombed out of service’: Syria

The UN said at 18 trucks in the 31-vehicle humanitarian aid convoy were destroyed. (AFP/File)

November 19th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Attack on UN aid convoy in Aleppo may be referred to UN security council

The M113s pictured are outfitted with anti-aircraft guns known as ZPU-2s. (Twitter)

November 19th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Hezbollah parades around in US personnel carriers but where did they get them?

The Syrian Center for Policy Research, a Beirut-based NGO, has put the total death toll from the five-year-old conflict at more than 470,000. (AFP/File)

November 17th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Russian forces continue to pound Aleppo with airstrikes

A Red Crescent convoy prepares to leave Damascus to the besieged areas of Madaya and Zabadani. (AFP/File)

November 16th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

WFP and FAO warn against food shortage and starvation in Syria

Smoke billows from buildings during battles on the northwest outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (AFP/File)

November 13th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Syrian regime forces capture parts of Aleppo while rebels move against Daesh in Raqqa

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media before a campaign event in Columbia. (AFP/File)

November 12th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Trump victory comes as a possible relief for the Assad regime in Syria

A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent searches for victims following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, on November 10, 2016. (AFP/Abd Doumany)

November 12th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Russia accuses Syrian opposition of using chemical weapons in Aleppo

Syrians fleeing areas controlled by Daesh are seen on the road as they come to safety in areas held by by Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, on November 8, 2016, near Raqqa. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

November 9th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Civilians flee Raqqa as coalition forces advance on the Daesh stronghold

A member of the Syrian pro-government forces stands amid heavily damaged buildings in Aleppo's 1070 district on November 8, 2016, after troops seized it from rebel fighters. (AFP/Georges Ourfalian)

November 9th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Russia announces first-ever strike on Aleppo from aircraft carrier

US soldiers, one apparently wearing the badge of the YPG, in Fatisah, Raqqa province, on 25 May 2016. (AFP/File)

November 8th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Turkey paranoid that Syrian Kurds will take Raqqa as their capital after dislodging Daesh