March 2021

Iran is looking to Russia and China for diplomatic support amid President Joe Biden's push to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, plus Washington, D.C.'s refusal to lift sanctions imposed by former President …

Magda Sakaan and her father, Walid, shared memories at StoryCorps in 2019 of their time in Syria prior to the war there. Walid Sakaan last visited his home country of Syria in 2010. In 1966, he moved to the U.S. at the…

Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war. That's…

A decade ago this month, the Syrian civil war began when a group of teenagers—inspired by the Arab Spring then sweeping across the Middle East—scribbled graffiti on a school wall in the southern city of Deraa. Addressing…

Mevlut Cavusoglu: If they take positive step, we will do so as well DUBAI: Turkey sees no reason not to mend ties with Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on…

Airstrike in Syria Hits Iran-Backed Militia Targets, Austin Says The Biden administration's first known military action was an airstrike on facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups, in response to earlier…

BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Mohammed Zakaria has lived in a plastic tent in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for almost as long as war has raged in his native Syria. He and his family fled bombings in 2012, thinking it would be a short,…

From a precarious position, Assad now holds sway over many parts of the country, helped by Russia’s military and Iran’s Shi’ite militias. Hostile Turkey still controls swathes of territory in the northwest and the United States has a…

90% of Syrians live below the poverty line Sustainable solution cannot be achieved through military means Diplomatic relations with the regime should not be normalised without fundamental progress…

The Syrian Observatory has obtained new details about the recent Israeli strikes on the south of Syria's capital, Damascus, on February 28. According to very reliable SOHR sources, the attack's objective was to kill three commanders of…