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US will not back off Syria mission despite deadly attacks – White House

The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Daesh, despite attacks on US forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday, Reuters reports. A one-way attack drone struck a US base in Syria on 23 March, killing an American contractor, injuring another and wounding five US troops. That triggered US retaliatory air strikes and […]

28 March 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 […]

24 March 2023

International

Syria announces demands ahead of four-way talks in Russia

Syria yesterday announced its demands in preparation for the upcoming four-way meeting between Russia, Syria, Turkiye and Iran in Moscow. Al-Watan quoted official sources as saying that there were "ongoing serious deliberations to reach a meeting," adding that its official date would be announced "if the deliberations' results are positive." The source pointed out that Damascus' demands had included calling on Turkiye "to withdraw from the Syrian territory and to stop […]

15 March 2023

International

Syria: Drone attack in Deir Ezzor kills seven, including civilians

A drone strike in eastern Syria on Wednesday killed seven people, including civilians, a UK-based war monitor said. A further 15 people were wounded after the strike targeted a weapons factory and a truck loaded with arms in Deir Ezzor province, according to Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, which took place in a part of […]

9 March 2023

International

Turkey’s Syrian refugee youth worry about the future post-quakes

“Messi or Ronaldo?” is the most common question the aspiring young football stars of the Gazikent community centre-turned-refuge ask each other and newcomers. The children of Gaziantep cannot be kept from playing in the rubble of flattened buildings, near makeshift roadside shelters, or in state-constructed tent cities. The football pitches and indoor spaces of Gazikent, repurposed post-earthquake to house as many as 5,000 displaced people, resounded with activity — the […]

5 March 2023

International

US accuses Syrian government of diverting earthquake aid

The US has accused the Syrian government of diverting international humanitarian aid intended for earthquake survivors to instead benefit Syrian authorities. Ambassador Robert Wood, the alternate US representative for special political affairs at the United Nations, accused “other actors” of diverting aid and blocking deliveries in Syria. “As we work to increase aid to all affected Syrians, we must remain cognizant of the troubling reports of the regime’s diversion of lifesaving aid […]

2 March 2023

International

Low water levels force halt to north Syria hydropower

Local authorities in north-east Syria will suspend operations at a hydroelectric dam for a week because of low water levels, two officials said on Wednesday, leaving several million people at risk of power outages, Reuters reports. The Tishreen dam in the northern province of Aleppo will be out of service from Wednesday until 8 March, an online statement from Amal Khozayem, co-Chair of the Energy office in the semi-autonomous region of north-east […]

2 March 2023

International

UN: Syria facing ‘very high number’ of cholera outbreaks after quakes

North-west Syria is in the midst of a "very high number" of cholera outbreaks in the wake of deadly earthquakes that exacerbated an already dire humanitarian landscape, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The risk of disease is growing amide pre-existing cholera outbreaks," Martin Griffiths told the Security Council, three weeks after deadly 6 February temblors devastated wide stretches of Syria and Turkiye. "The prices of food, household […]

1 March 2023

Local

GOTG rescue head recounts scenes after Turkey, Syria quakes

By: Aneeqa du Plessis The disastrous earthquakes that devastated southeastern Türkiye and Northern Syria earlier this month and again on February 20 calls for a dedicated and continued global humanitarian response. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Friday morning, Gift of the Givers team leader for search and rescue Ahmed Bham described the current state in Turkiye and Syria. “The devastation is at such a massive scale at the moment […]

24 February 2023

Syria

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