Syria

A new investigation by the Guardian and others has found that attempts by the Greek coastguard in June to tow a boat carrying roughly 750 refugees which capsized leaving only 104 survivors may...

The UN Security Council yesterday postponed a vote to renew a cross-border mechanism that allows the use of the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing through Turkiye to deliver humanitarian aid...

Presidents Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye may hold a meeting in the presence of their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after the work on a...

Three men, including the prime suspect in the death of a policeman at the end of last year, were killed in clashes with Jordan's elite anti-terrorism squad on Sunday,...

Syria's information ministry said on Saturday it had cancelled the accreditation of two local journalists working for Britain's BBC over what it said was "false" and "politicised" coverage, reports...

A police car chase in central Greece turned deadly for an alleged car thief, as reported Saturday by police, reports Anadolu Agency. A 20-year-old car-thief of Syrian nationality, who...

A German town has sworn in a former Syrian refugee as its mayor, in the first case of a German municipality voting in someone who had arrived in the...

The Syrian pound has recorded a historic collapse against the US dollar, as its exchange rate reached 10,000 Syrian pounds for $1. This is the lowest level ever reached...

As Wagner mercenaries advanced on Moscow in an attempted mutiny in late June, authorities in Syria and Russian military commanders there took a series of swift measures against local...

The World Court, on 19 and 20 July, will hear a request by the Netherlands and Canada that it order Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary...

Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother, Adil, has left the door of his Athens home open in the...

A total of 951 migrants died trying to reach Spain in the first half of 2023, according to a report published Thursday by the Walking Borders organisation, Anadolu Agency...

EU lawmakers today urged Greece and the European Commission to launch an international and independent probe into last month's deadly migrant boat shipwreck off the coast of Greece. The European Parliament's...

The US State Department has declassified footage from a US operation in Syria, which it alleges shows Russian jets 'harassing' an unmanned American bomber aircraft. The US' Reaper drone was part of an operation with Kurdish forces against Daesh targets in Syria

The Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad was directly involved in and ordered the establishment and mobilisation of paramilitary loyalist 'shabiha' militias during the early days of the civil war,...

Lebanese authorities have arrested over 2,000 Syrian refugees and deported 1,800 since April this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported. In the newly-released report by HRW, it stated...

The number of asylum applications in the European Union reached 996,000 in 2022, the highest in six years, according to an annual report published by the European Union Agency...

Pakistan's top judge called last month's sinking of a migrant boat off Greece, in which hundreds of Pakistanis reportedly died, a "human rights issue", Anadolu Agency reports. Hearing a...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revealed that 180,000 residential units are being built in the earthquake zones in the south of the country. He made the announcement after...

Just over 500 civilians have been killed in Syria this year, according to the latest monthly report published on Sunday by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). In...

France announced that it has repatriated 25 children and ten women held in camps in Syria under suspicion of being linked to Daesh fighters, the Foreign Ministry said today....

Dozens of public sector employees in the Syrian governorate of Latakia have submitted their resignations since the beginning of this year, citing low wages and the inability to secure...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday to continue to send "terrorists" to "the grave or jail" and to fight...

Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, arrived in Damascus on Monday, for the second such visit to Syria since February, Anadolu Agency reports. Safadi will meet with the head of...

A senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the city of Homs, central Syria, at dawn yesterday, Iranian media...

The Israeli army said late Saturday it spotted an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria toward its territory, reports Anadolu Agency. "The missile appears to have exploded in the air,"...

Turkiye has urged the international community to extend much-needed aid to millions in north-west Syria, as the current mandate is set to expire in just over a week. In...

Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They...

Russia has launched efforts to seize full control of the "global empire" built by the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, Anadolu Agency...

Senior officials from Turkiye and the US discussed the Russia-Ukraine war, recent elections in Greece and the situation in Syria in a phone call Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Turkish Presidential...

Israel has seized millions of dollars worth of digital funds intended for use by the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah, and the foreign Quds Force arm of Iran's Revolutionary...

Syria has appointed a new ambassador to Egypt and the Arab League, almost two months after the regional body reinstated Damascus back into its fold. According to the state-run...