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September 22nd, 2025 - 06:06 GMT

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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 Turkey-backed Syrian fighter wearing a face mask flips through a book as he rests at a position in the village of Aafes, north of the city of Saraqib in the northwestern Idlib province, during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis, on April 19, 2020. Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP

April 22nd, 2020 - 12:01 GMT

Fears Grow for Thousands of Syrian Detainees as Coronavirus Spreads in The Country

Syrian air defences reportedly intercept and Israeli missile over the Syrian capital Damascus. [File: AFP]

April 21st, 2020 - 06:38 GMT

Syria Intercepts Israeli Missiles Targeting Palmyra

The global chemical weapons watchdog is investigating a suspected April chemical attack in Douma, Syria (AFP)

April 15th, 2020 - 01:02 GMT

Will Syrians Ever Get Justice For The Regime's Chemical Attacks?

The joint patrols in a security corridor along the key M4 highway were part of Syria's latest fragile ceasefire which came into effect in March 2020, between the two warring sides, with the Russians backing regime forces and Turkey. AFP/File

April 15th, 2020 - 12:50 GMT

Turkish-Russian Troops Hold 4th Joint Patrol in Syria’s Idlib

Syrian youths wave to a convoy of Turkish military reinforcements advancing near the town of Hazano in the countryside of Syria's Idlib province, on April 12, 2020, on the highway linking the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey to Idlib. Aref TAMMAWI / AFP

April 15th, 2020 - 06:28 GMT

Syria: Angry Protesters in Idlib Rise up Against Turkish-Russian Patrols

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (AFP/File Photo)

April 13th, 2020 - 09:58 GMT

Kurdish Forces Arrest ISIS 'Health Minister' in Northeast Syria

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April 13th, 2020 - 08:09 GMT

Worsening Security Situation in N. Syria Stops Oil Fields From Operating

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April 10th, 2020 - 08:05 GMT

Moscow, Washington Vie For Power in North-East Syria

Migrants and refugees, some wearing facemasks for protective measures, queue in a makeshift camp next to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on April 2, 2020. Over 20 coronavirus cases were found in a camp near Athens this week. At the camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos, both doctors and migrants say health precautions are not much help in a facility that is so badly overcrowded. The novel coronavirus could spread faster in overcrowded refugee and displaced persons camps than it has anywhere els

April 8th, 2020 - 10:29 GMT

Turkey: 149,000 Asylum Seekers Crossed The Greek Since Late February

Victims of a chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime in Syria (Photo: HAMZA AL-AJWEH/AFP/Getty Images)

April 7th, 2020 - 11:16 GMT

OPCW Blames Syrian Regime For Sarin, Cholrine Attacks on Civilians

A Syrian child displaced from Ras al-Ain, a border town controlled by Turkey and its Syrian proxies, is pictured in a school turned into a shelter in the city of Hasakeh on April 5, 2020 in northeastern Syria. AFP

April 7th, 2020 - 06:05 GMT

UN Accuses Syrian Regime of Attacking School, Hospitals

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April 2nd, 2020 - 07:28 GMT

Israel Missiles The Shayrat Airbase in Central Syria