December 2020

Despite President Donald Trump’s multiple promises to end U.S. involvement in endless wars, his administration is intentionally prolonging the civil war in Syria, which shows no signs of ending after nearly a decade of fighting.…

Women watched U.S. troops patrol  the roads of the northeastern Syrian town of Al Jawadiyahin, near the border with Turkey, on Thursday. The coronavirus is surging in Syria, which has little capacity to cope with another…

Iran’s UN ambassador says all foreign forces, including the American troops, who are illegally present on Syrian soil, must leave the war-torn state, stressing that Tehran will keep supporting Damascus in its fight…

A Syrian child refugee has said she hopes to become a doctor to “make people feel happy” after being given the chance of a new life in the UK. Lilian, 10, came to live in Kent in 2018, having left her home country six years earlier amid…

All Hanadi Albarazanji wants is to reunite her family. The White Rock resident last saw two of her three children in person five years ago, just before she fled war-torn Syria with her youngest daughter, Juman, to start a new…

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Foreign Minister, Faisal Al-Miqdad, said on Thursday that the number of countries that have expressed their desire to contribute to the reconstruction of Syria is not small, and that many of these…

Russia has supplied 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Syria as humanitarian aid since the start of 2020 and plans to ship more to the war-torn country, the Interfax news agency reported on Dec. 18. Plagued by civil war for nearly a…

Graffitti on a wall outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1994. (Ron Haviv) How does a country that's suffered searing conflict and brutality survive? How do the people of Cambodia, Colombia, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, Northern…

In the wake of the signing of the two memoranda of understanding between the GNA (Government of National Accord) and Turkey, which give Turkey a new, strong role in Libya, comparisons have been with Ankara’s position in Syria. However, I…

Turkey recently began evacuating its observation post at Al-Eis in northern Syria following prolonged attacks in the region by Russian-backed regime forces. (AFP/File Photo) Turkey…