syria

May 26, 2021

Syrians go to the polls in election that Assad is set to win

Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a…

May 25, 2021

President Bashar al-Assad, once seen as a reformer but viewed by his many foes as a tyrant after a decade…

May 22, 2021

SHADDADI, Syria (AP) — The Iraqi government for the first time is expected to bring home about 100 Iraqi families…

May 20, 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — Groups of angry Lebanese pelted buses and cars carrying Syrians expatriates and refugees heading to the Syrian…

May 18, 2021

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish security forces have killed an alleged high-ranking Kurdish militant in an operation in northern Iraq,…

May 13, 2021

Syria has freed more than 400 civil servants, judges, lawyers and journalists detained this year in a crackdown on social…

May 10, 2021

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Firefighters extinguished a blaze Sunday in a distillation unit at one of Syria’s two oil refineries,…

May 5, 2021

Syrian air defenses downed several Israeli missiles during pre-dawn raids on the Mediterranean port city of Latakia, the Syrian army…

May 1, 2021

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old…

April 27, 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — A leading Syrian rights group Monday called on the international community to reject next month’s presidential elections…