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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 ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry during their meeting in Moscow on December 15, 2015. (AFP/File)

September 29th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

US flexes muscles over bilateral engagement with Russia over Aleppo, Syria

Smoke rises from an airstrike in Aleppo. (AFP/File)

September 28th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

Syrian regime forces launch another round of airstrikes on Aleppo

A Turkish tank heads towards the Syria border at the beginning of Operation Euphrates Shield. (AFP/File)

September 28th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Turkey hits 30 Daesh positions in northern Syria with airstrikes, artillery

Although fierce fighting is raging across the country, desperately needed humanitarian relief has been delivered for the first time in almost six months. (AFP/File)

September 27th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Aid convoys reach besieged areas in Syria

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (AFP/File)

September 26th, 2016 - 02:38 GMT

War of words: Russian FM Lavrov accuses West of not doing enough about Syria

Civilians watch as a tractor clears the rubble following Syrian government forces airstrikes in the rebel held neighborhood of Tariq a-Bab in Aleppo on September 24, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

September 26th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Skyrocketing violence kills 65 in Aleppo airstrikes ahead of UN meeting on Syria crisis

Syrian fire fighters put out a blaze at the scene of a reported barrel bomb strike. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 01:01 GMT

Eye of the storm? Aleppo violence slows down following intense airstrikes

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a weapon inside a damaged building during clashes with forces from the Syrian regime. (AFP/File)

September 24th, 2016 - 09:50 GMT

Syria’s rebel-held Handarat camp near Aleppo captured by regime forces

A Syrian man carries the body of an infant retrieved from under the rubble of a building following a reported airstrike on September 23, 2016, on the al-Muasalat area in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

September 24th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

'Unprecedented' bombing targets Syria’s civil defense as assault on Aleppo escalates

Syrian pro-regime fighters patrol the Ramussa area south of the city of Aleppo, on September 21, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

September 23rd, 2016 - 06:05 GMT

Syrian government to intensify offensive on east Aleppo

A Syrian soldier stands guard as Red Crescent members wait for opposition fighters and their families to change buses at a Syrian army checkpoint on the edge of the rebel-held Waer neighbourhood in the central city of Homs during an evacuation operation on September 22, 2016. (AFP/Louai Beshara)

September 22nd, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

UN delivers humanitarian aid to Syria after suspending convoys

Syrian men remove a baby from the rubble of a destroyed building following a reported air strike in the Qatarji neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on September 21, 2016. (AFP/Ameer Alhalbi)

September 22nd, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Government airstrike near Syria’s Idlib kills at least 13