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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 UN humanitarian group has been unable to deliver badly needed aid to Aleppo.

September 18th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

UN expressed frustration at stalled Aleppo aid

Syrian rebels gather around the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter. (AFP/File)

September 16th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Russia and Turkey’s military chiefs meet to discuss Syria

Syrians offload aid after a convoy of Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UN vehicles arrived in a rebel-held area on the outskirts of Damascus. (AFP/Amer Almohibany)

September 15th, 2016 - 09:45 GMT

Eastern Aleppo cut off from food supply routes

More than half of the world's refugee children that are out of school live in these seven countries: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey. (AFP/File)

September 15th, 2016 - 08:05 GMT

Report: Millions of Syrian children are out of school according to UNHCR

The Syrian government said it would not allow in unauthorized aid from Turkey, a staunch backer of the rebels. (AFP/File)

September 14th, 2016 - 01:14 GMT

Syrians still waiting for humanitarian aid amid ceasefire

Syrian youths sit at a cafe in the government-held Mogambo neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as they celebrate the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday on September 13, 2016, a day after a fragile ceasefire was brokered. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

September 14th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

UN aid convoy of 40 trucks expected to enter Syria from Turkey

A Syrian civil defence member and a volunteer carry a little girl rescued from under the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported airstrike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 10, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

September 11th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Dozens of civilians killed in Syria just after ceasefire agreement

People run from the site of a bombing at a Tripoli mosque in 2013. (AFP/File)

September 10th, 2016 - 11:30 GMT

Protesters in northern Lebanon call for severing ties with Syrian government

Refugees at al-Rakban camp. (AFP/File)

September 10th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Syrian refugees at Jordanian border: Lack of food, medicine in camp reaches critical level

A Syrian regime tank overlooks the Latakia province. (AFP/File)

September 10th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Syrian regime forces retake six villages from Daesh

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference in Geneva on September 9, 2016. (AFP/Kevin Lamarq)

September 10th, 2016 - 06:31 GMT

US, Russia agree on Syria ceasefire plan

The carcass of a bus litters a bombed-out street in Ramussa on September 9, 2016, after pro-regime fighters took control of the strategically important district on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

September 9th, 2016 - 12:45 GMT

Top commander of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham killed near Aleppo