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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 ...

Syrian refugees are picture in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, on March 17, 2020 amidst the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic. AFP/File

March 18th, 2020 - 12:18 GMT

Syrian Regime Attack Leaves 2-Month-Old Baby With One Eye

Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. AFP/File

March 16th, 2020 - 09:55 GMT

When Will The Killing Fields in Syria Stop?

Doctor Ali Ghazal holds an awareness workshop on Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a camp for displaced people in Atme town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, near the border with Turkey, on March 14, 2020. AAREF WATAD / AFP`

March 16th, 2020 - 07:00 GMT

UNICEF: 9000 Kids Killed in Syrian War Since it Began Nine Years Ago

Syrians protest and burn tyres in an attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached a deal on Ma

March 15th, 2020 - 12:19 GMT

Syria's Brutal Conflict Enters its 10th Year

In this file photo taken on March 17, 2019, a fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walks carrying a machine gun at a position close to the camp of Baghouz where remaining Islamic State (IS) group fighters and their families are holding out in the last position controlled by IS, awaiting to advance on them in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. As it enters its tenth year, the war in Syria is anything but abating as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human su

March 12th, 2020 - 07:24 GMT

At Least 18 Iraqi Fighters Killed in Air Strikes on Syria

A migrant runs away as another one takes cover behind a trash container as Greek police uses water cannons to block them trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on March 7, 2020 as makeshift camps have sprung up around the border where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Turkey to leave for the European Union, in a bid to gain Western backing in Syria. As part of the 2016 agreement, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros

March 11th, 2020 - 02:26 GMT

Report: Greece Holds Migrants in Secret 'Extrajudicial' Site

Migrants take cover behind a wooden board as Greek police uses water cannons to block them trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on March 7, 2020 as makeshift camps have sprung up around the border where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Turkey to leave for the European Union, in a bid to gain Western backing in Syria. As part of the 2016 agreement, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros, but Ankara accused the Europ

March 11th, 2020 - 11:27 GMT

Greek Action in Pushing Back Asylum Seekers is an EU Law Violation

Migrants and refugees who arrived from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on March 5, try to keep warm as they gather in the yard of a small church where they have spent the rainy night near Skala Sykamnias on March 6, 2020. A group of 42 refugees and migrants weave through coast guard patrols and arrived on the shores of Lebos during the evening of March 5. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP

March 11th, 2020 - 07:30 GMT

Coronavirus Spreads to Lesbos That Houses a Camp of 27,000 Refugee

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 9, 2020. JOHN THYS / AFP

March 9th, 2020 - 11:58 GMT

EU: Turkey Must Move Refugees Away From The Greek Border

Plumes of smoke rise following Russian air strikes on the village of al-Bara in the southern part of Syria's northwestern Idlib province on March 5, 2020. Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP

March 9th, 2020 - 07:42 GMT

Assad Regime Violates Turkey-Russia Ceasefire Accord 10 Minutes After it Was Implemented

Greeks riot police clash with migrants along the Greece-Turkey border in the village of Kastanies on March 6, 2020. Greece is attempting to hold back a migration surge by land and sea from neighbouring Turkey that began last week after Ankara said it would no longer stop asylum seekers from entering Europe. ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP

March 9th, 2020 - 07:38 GMT

Erdogan Calls on Greece to 'Open The Gates' for Migrants to Reach Europe

Syrians ride in the back of a truck in the town of Hazano in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria's Idlib province on March 7, 2020. Ibrahim YASOUF / AFP

March 8th, 2020 - 01:39 GMT

How Can Aid Agencies Prevent a Coronavirus Outbreak in Syria?