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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 ...

Syrian refugees in al-Ruqban camp. (AFP/File)

July 22nd, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Jordanian border conditions worsen: Syrian refugees begin returning to Daesh-controlled areas

A file photo of a Hezbollah rocket launch. (AFP/File)

July 21st, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Hezbollah destroys Nusra Front fortification on Lebanese-Syrian border

Many hospitals in Syria, such as this one in the Idlib province, have been destroyed or taken over by militants. (AFP/File)

July 19th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Syrian opposition retakes hospital used as Daesh control center

Syrian civil defense workers look for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building following reported air strikes on July 17, 2016 in the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Karm Homad in the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

July 18th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Syrian opposition vows to break siege of Aleppo

The road was already effectively out of use since government forces advanced to firing positions overlooking it ten days earlier. (AFP/File)

July 18th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Syrian regime forces seize last road leading into Aleppo

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AFP/File)

July 15th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Kerry, Putin meet to discuss collaboration against Daesh, al-Nusra Front

Two Syrian girls carry bags of bread in Aleppo. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

July 15th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Aleppo residents stockpile food, resources in anticipation of Assad-backed siege

Syrian refugees stranded at the Hadalat border crossing, closed by Jordan after a recent attack on border guards. (AFP/File)

July 14th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Twenty Syrians allowed through Jordan’s closed border, treated for wounds from airstrike

Syrian refugees are seen crossing the border into Turkey. (AFP/File)

July 14th, 2016 - 01:30 GMT

UN welcomes Turkish plan to grant citizenship to refugees

Marie Colvin, longtime war correspondent, was killed in a bombardment of a rebel-held district in Homs, Syria. (File photo)

July 14th, 2016 - 11:30 GMT

Assad says slain journalist Marie Colvin responsible for her own death

A picture taken on June 12, 2016 shows Syrian Civil Defense members, known as the White Helmets, gather at a site following air strikes on the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib, on June 12, 2016. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

July 14th, 2016 - 05:30 GMT

Government airstrikes kill 28 in Syria’s Idlib, Homs

A car bomb outside a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan killed six soldiers on June 21, 2016 in a remote desert area where hundreds have been held for screening for suspected links to Daesh. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

July 13th, 2016 - 01:30 GMT

Jordan ‘temporarily’ allows water and food to stranded refugees on border