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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 ...

A Turkish army tank in the border city of Karkamis drives towards Syria. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

August 31st, 2016 - 06:26 GMT

Pressure mounts on Turkey over its clashes with Kurds in Syria

Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, a Syrian from Idlib, had served as Daesh's lead propagandist since 2014. (File photo)

August 31st, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Daesh says its top spokesman killed in Syria

A Syrian rescue worker carries children in the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo after regime aircrafts reportedly dropped explosive-packed barrel bombs on August 27, 2016. (AFP/Ameer Alhalbi)

August 30th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Syrian opposition forces capture strategic town of Halfaya

A Turkish boy waves to Turkish tank convoy driving into Syria from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 26, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

August 30th, 2016 - 02:30 GMT

Kurdish PYD: Turkish forces will not be allowed into ‘liberated areas’ in Syria

A file photo of Free Syrian Army fighters. (AFP/File)

August 29th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Villages liberated by Free Syrian Army in Jarabulus, northern Syria

Syrian government troops stand guard as a bus carrying people drives by, as part of an evacuation from the town of Daraya outside the capital Damascus on August 26, 2016. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

August 28th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Daraya evacuation continues: Syria

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on August 26, 2016 in Geneva for an expected push towards resuming peace talks for war-ravaged Syria. (AFP/Martial Terzzini)

August 27th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

US, Russia ‘closing gaps’ to work together in Syria

Syrian army soldiers gather in a street in the government-controlled part of the besieged town of Daraya on August 26, 2016, as thousands of rebel fighters and civilians prepared to evacuate under an accord struck a day earlier. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

August 26th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Civilians and rebels to be evacuated from Syria’s Daraya

Turkish army tanks drive to the Syrian border town of Jarabulus after launching a ground operation for the first time in Syria, on August 25, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

August 25th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Syrian town of Jarabulus seized by rebels in fight against Daesh

Victims are evacuated after an airstrike in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus. (AFP/File)

August 25th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Report concludes Syrian regime responsible for chemical attack

A Turkish army tank in the border city of Karkamis drives towards Syria. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

August 25th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Turkish tanks continue rolling into Syria

A Syrian rebel tries on a gas mask in the northwestern province of Idlib, on July 18, 2013. (AFP/File)

August 25th, 2016 - 07:27 GMT

UN report confirms Syrian regime, Daesh used chemical weapons on civilians