Wed, 08 Apr, 2020
Hezbollah has strongly rejected the UK government's move to ban it as a terrorist organisation, calling it an "insult" to the Lebanese people and evidence of subservience to the United States.
Fri, 01 Mar, 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his military "won't stop" efforts to oust Syrian Kurdish fighters from Syria's north, as the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran met for talks on the conflict.
Wed, 04 Apr, 2018
An evacuation of critically ill Syrians trapped in a rebel-held suburb near the capital Damascus is under way.
Wed, 27 Dec, 2017
An air strike on a Syrian village held by the Islamic State group has killed at least 25 people, all of them civilians, according to activists.
Mon, 27 Nov, 2017
Rival US and Russian resolutions to extend the mandate of experts trying to determine who was responsible for chemical attacks in Syria have been defeated at a heated Security Council meeting that reflected the deteriorating relations between Washington and Moscow.
Fri, 17 Nov, 2017
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have agreed to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria, the Kremlin said.
Sat, 11 Nov, 2017
The UN in Syria says it has delivered emergency food assistance to 40,000 people trapped in a government siege in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
Mon, 30 Oct, 2017
Russia's military has said its air strikes in eastern Syria this week killed more than 300 Islamic State militants.
Tue, 03 Oct, 2017
A Russian-built plane used by the Syrian air force conducted a sarin gas attack in the spring that killed at least 83 civilians and sparked a retaliatory US strike, a UN investigation has found.
Wed, 06 Sep, 2017
Renowned former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is resigning from the UN's Syria panel, saying in five years it has had no success at all.
Mon, 07 Aug, 2017
The United States will respond by September 1 to Russia's attempt to force a major reduction in American diplomatic staff, Rex Tillerson has said.
Donald Trump has announced legislation aimed at significantly reducing immigration to the United States.
Wed, 02 Aug, 2017
Donald Trump has hinted he could change his mind on the US pulling out of the international Paris climate change deal.
Fri, 14 Jul, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron said it is "obvious and indispensable" to have exchanges with US President Donald Trump as the two leaders were set to try to find common ground on security, defence and other issues.
Thu, 13 Jul, 2017
Russian bombers have targeted the Islamic State group in Syria with cruise missiles, the military said.
Wed, 05 Jul, 2017
The US State Department said that it believes about 50 detainees are being hanged each day at the Saydnaya military prison
Tue, 16 May, 2017
A deal hammered out by Russia, Turkey and Iran to set up "de-escalation zones" in mostly opposition-held parts of Syria has gone into effect.
Sat, 06 May, 2017
Analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month "bears the signature" of President Bashar Assad's government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault, France's foreign minister has said.
Wed, 26 Apr, 2017
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The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed a day after a deadly blast killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters.
Sun, 16 Apr, 2017
Russia has been told it must choose between aligning itself with the US and like-minded countries or embracing Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran and militant group Hezbollah.
Tue, 11 Apr, 2017
The US missile attack caused heavy damage to one of Syria's biggest and most strategic air bases - but the impact on President Bashar Assad's military capabilities is limited.
Sat, 08 Apr, 2017
US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned on Wednesday that US President's Trump administration will take action against chemical attacks in Syria - if the UN Security Council fails to act.
Thu, 06 Apr, 2017
A suspected government chemical attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria has killed dozens of people.
Tue, 04 Apr, 2017
Syrian government warplanes have pounded a rebel-held neighbourhood in the central city of Homs, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, opposition activists said.
Sun, 26 Feb, 2017
Syrian army experts are dismantling explosives and booby-traps left behind by rebels before they left the last neighbourhoods they held in the northern city of Aleppo, according to state TV.
Fri, 23 Dec, 2016
A deal to evacuate trapped civilians and fighters in war-ravaged east Aleppo and two Syrian villages has been thrown into doubt after assailants torched six buses assigned to the operation.
Sun, 18 Dec, 2016
An agreement has been reached to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in north-western Syria, a step which would allow the evacuations of civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo to resume, Hezbollah's media arm and a monitoring group have said.
Sat, 17 Dec, 2016
A ceasefire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo has broken down, threatening plans to evacuate the remaining fighters and tens of thousands of civilians.
Wed, 14 Dec, 2016
The pullout of Syrian rebels and civilians from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo has been delayed today, though the cause was not immediately known.
A ceasefire "surrender deal" allowing civilians and opposition fighters to be evacuated from eastern Aleppo has begun as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government assumed control of the former rebel enclave.
A group of lawyers are seeking to launch a criminal case in Germany against Syrian President Bashar Assad over alleged war crimes committed in the city of Aleppo.
Mon, 28 Nov, 2016
Russia and Iran will be guilty of war crimes if they do not put pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to stop escalating violence in the country, says France's foreign minister.
Sun, 25 Sep, 2016
At least 13 people have been killed in a string of bomb attacks inside government territory in Syria, according to state media.
Mon, 05 Sep, 2016
Fri, 19 Aug, 2016
More than 17,000 people have died in Syrian government detention facilities since the start of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International has said.
Thu, 18 Aug, 2016
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Mon, 15 Aug, 2016
Tue, 21 Jun, 2016
The Syrian al Qaida branch and allied fighters from ultraconservative rebel factions have seized a village of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect in central Syria.
Thu, 12 May, 2016
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US and Russia succeed in having fragile ceasefire extended to city
Thu, 05 May, 2016
A wave of air strikes and shelling have killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists said.
Thu, 28 Apr, 2016
Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood actress and special envoy for the UN’s refugee agency, said that the international community must address the root causes of the global refugee crisis.
Wed, 16 Mar, 2016
Sat, 30 Jan, 2016
Convoys are delivering aid for the second time this week to three besieged communities in Syria in an effort to alleviate civilian suffering in cut-off areas.
Thu, 14 Jan, 2016
A home-made explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service has said.
Tue, 17 Nov, 2015
Claims by the so-called 'Islamic State' group that it caused a Russian passenger plane to crash, killing all 224 people on board, are “propaganda” aimed at damaging Egypt’s image, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has said.
Tue, 03 Nov, 2015
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