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Syria: Two killed in suspected Israeli missiles strike on Damascus

Two Syrian soldiers were killed after alleged Israeli air strikes targeted sites in the Damascus area early Wednesday morning, according to the Syrian state news agency Sana. The strike was reported to have originated from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to a Syrian military source. Syrian air defences confronted missiles Israel launched at 12:25 am from the Golan Heights and "shot down most of them," the source said. Photos from the area showed multiple […]

today19 July 2023

International

Saudi Arabia and Syria ‘in talks to restore ties’

Saudi Arabia and Syria are in talks over a resumption of consular services between the two countries, according to Saudi state television, an indication of a possible restoration of ties between the two countries. Saudi Arabia, which backed the Syrian opposition in the country’s war, closed its embassy in Damascus and expelled the Syrian ambassador in 2012. “Within the framework of the kingdom’s keenness to facilitate the provision of necessary […]

today24 March 2023

International

Syria: Looming Turkish ground offensive poses predicament for Damascus

INTERNATIONAL Damascus is watching and waiting as Turkey inches towards a ground assault in northeastern Syria following cross-border hostilities between Ankara and Kurdish-led forces in the region. The Turkish military on Sunday launched an aerial operation aimed at forces linked to the Kurdish-led Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which control much of Syria's northeast. Turkey says the operation is a response to the deadly 13 November Istanbul bombing that Ankara believes was perpetrated by YPG-linked suspects. The […]

today28 November 2022

International

Bomb attack on military bus kills 18 Syria soldiers

INTERNATIONAL A military bus was bombed near the Syrian capital, Damascus, today, killing at least 18 Syrian soldiers and wounding 27 others in what is the latest attack on regime forces' transport vehicles. According to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), which cited a military source, the bus in the countryside surrounding Damascus "was targeted this morning by a terrorist detonation with an explosive device that was planted in advance". […]

today14 October 2022

International News

Syria: Mufti of Damascus assassinated in car bombing

Sheikh Muhammad Adnan Al-Afiouni, the senior Sunni Muslimsy province was killed in a roadside bombing yesterday which is believed to have been a targeted assassination. The explosion happened in the town of Qudsaya, west of the Syrian capital. The mufti was initially reported to have been wounded but was declared dead soon after. According to Syrian state news agency SANA, “Al-Afiouni was martyred on Thursday evening in a terrorist blast […]

today23 October 2020

International News

Syrian army bombards Yarmouk camp, war monitor says

The Syrian army bombarded militants in the last area outside government control near Damascus overnight, as President Bashar al-Assad accelerated his push to retake remaining enclaves. US, British and French air strikes on Saturday to punish Assad for suspected use of chemical weapons have done nothing to slow the advance of his forces, now in their strongest position since the early months of the seven-year-old war. Air strikes and shelling […]

today20 April 2018

International News

Syria forces launch assault on rebel-held Douma

Pro-government forces in Syria have launched a ground offensive under the cover of air raids on Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta. The push on Friday signalled the collapse of a 10-day ceasefire over a potential deal to evacuate opposition fighters from the besieged enclave on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. According to the Syrian Civil Defence, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, […]

today7 April 2018

International News

Russian strikes kill 37 civilians as evacuations continue from Syria’s Ghouta

Russian air strikes killed 37 civilians in the Arbin area of the shrinking rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. "Russian air strikes and incendiary weapons killed the civilians in a basement from burning or suffocation" late on Thursday before a ceasefire came into effect in the area, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. Russia has denied being directly involved […]

today23 March 2018

International News

‘Survive or die together’: More than 400 killed in Eastern Ghouta

More than 400 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta, a monitoring group said, on the fifth day of the continuing onslaught of aerial bombardment by Syrian government forces backed by Russian warplanes. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 403 people were killed in the "hysterical attack" that began on Sunday, including 150 children. Almost 2,120 others were wounded. UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, […]

today23 February 2018

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