Much of it is believed to be sold to buyers in Gulf Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. Assad’s government denies involvement in manufacturing and trafficking the drug and says it fights to stop the lucrative trade. Mekdad’s visit to Jeddah comes two days before Saudi Arabia is to host another meeting of regional foreign ministers […]
The current fever pitch came after the violence on Wednesday, when Israeli riot police conducted a pre-dawn raid on the prayer hall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, aimed at removing “law-breaking youths and masked agitators” who said they He locked himself inside. As Ramadan coincides with the Jewish Passover holiday this year, tensions have risen with […]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor of the more than a decade-old conflict in Syria, said Jabouri was killed in a US drone strike in the northwestern Idlib region, an area controlled by jihadists. It said that he was killed while talking on the telephone as he was walking in the open […]
Assad’s presence at the Arab League summit would mark the most significant development in his rehabilitation within the Arab world since 2011, when Syria was suspended from the organization. Assad was ostracized by many Western and Arab states for his brutal crackdown on protests – violence that led to a protracted civil war. Syria’s return […]
It said “several missiles” were fired from the Mediterranean west of the coastal city of Latakia. Transport ministry official Suleiman Khalil told AFP technicians were assessing the damage. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike “targeted an arms depot belonging to pro-Iranian forces in the airport compound and the perimeter of the airport.” […]
It said it had requested $113.5 million of the $1 billion in funds appealed by the United Nations last week, adding that it would focus the money on clearing mountains of debris. UNDP estimates that the disaster produced between 116 million and 210 million tons of debris, compared with 13 million tons of debris after […]
At least two people were killed in an airstrike on a motorcycle in rebel-held territory in northwest Syria on Friday, the local civil defense said, the first aerial bombardment in the region since a devastating earthquake nearly three weeks ago. . The rescue force operating in opposition-held parts of Syria said two unidentified people were […]
Turkey has stepped up plans to house victims of the devastating earthquake that hit its border region with Syria, the interior minister said, as the combined death toll in the two countries reached 50,000. Suleyman Soylu said 313,000 tents along with 100,000 container houses have been set up in the disaster zone, which stretches hundreds […]
Begum is currently being held in a detention camp in north-eastern Syria. Announcing the tribunal’s decision, Judge Robert Jay said there was a “credible suspicion” that Begum had been taken to Syria for the purposes of “sexual exploitation”, but that the suspicion was insufficient for her appeal to succeed. Begum’s case has been the subject […]
A British-born woman who traveled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State has lost her latest appeal against the removal of her UK citizenship, with a judge ruling she was a possible trafficker. There were insufficient grounds to restore his citizenship. The British government revoked Shamima Begum’s British citizenship in 2019 on national […]
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told the Turkish Foreign Minister that Bangladesh is sending an additional 10,000 tents, along with the initial 2000 to Turkey, for earthquake victims. In a phone call to his Turkish counterpart on 15 February, he also requested that he let Bangladesh know if […]
As a nurse working near the front lines of the Syrian war, Ibrahim Zidan endured many desperate moments, including when shelling destroyed a hospital, leaving her trapped under rubble. But he says the February 6 earthquake in the area has proved to be the toughest challenge yet for doctors in the rebel-held territory, with health […]
