#Syria

The European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum formally entered into force on Friday, with Cyprus and the European Commission describing the move as a historic milestone aimed at ...

The French government is on Monday expected to sign a status of forces agreement on Monday, allowing it to station troops in Cyprus, according to reports published on Sunday. The ...

A 45-year-old Syrian was remanded for three days on Tuesday for reportedly kidnapping his two teenage children for six months. The was arrested upon his arrival at Larnaca airport on ...

A cohort of Australian women and children linked to the Islamic State militant group has returned home from a Syrian refugee camp, the second such group to arrive back in ...

A scheduled meeting between the Syrian ambassador to Cyprus and officials at the central prisons ended abruptly on Friday after a dispute over security procedures prompted the diplomat to leave ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Tuesday called on Turkic states to recognise northern Cyprus as an independent country, while also lamenting the fact that Syrian President Ahmed ...

Efforts were made to prevent Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa from participating in last week’s summit of European and regional leaders in Nicosia, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Al-Sharaa ...

A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Holcim’s Lafarge unit guilty of charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions to keep a plant operating ...

More than 1,700 people were killed, nearly 200,000 displaced and multiple actors including Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups committed acts that may amount to war crimes during a ...

The State Department is pulling out non-essential government personnel and their eligible family members from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, a senior State Department official said on Monday, amid ...

Fewer than 1,000 families remain at a camp where relatives of suspected Islamic State militants had been held in Syria’s northeast, the camp’s former director said on Wednesday, with ...

The U.S. military said it completed a withdrawal from a strategic base in Syria on Thursday, handing it over to Syrian forces, in the latest sign of strengthening U....

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Tuesday accused the Turkish government of partaking in a “purge” of Kurds and Christians in Syria. “A purge is taking place ...

Syrian government security forces entered the Kurdish-controlled northeastern city of Qamishli on Tuesday, security sources and witnesses said, implementing a US-backed deal to bring Kurdish-run regions back under central government ...

A series of judgments by the international protection administrative court which cleared the way for the expedited the return of Syrian nationals whose appeals had been rejected have been welcomed ...

The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Islamic State, after the ...

Syria’s government said a drone strike by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces killed seven of its soldiers on Wednesday, though the SDF denied this, in an incident that threatens ...

Cyprus has reaffirmed its support to Syria’s stability as “essential for regional security” and urged all parties to implement the ceasefire, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “Cyprus is ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday that Turkish drones struck Syria’s far northeastern city of Hasaka, but Turkish security sources said the report was not true. The ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party said on Monday that the Turkish government had no more “excuses” to delay a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) now that a ...

Syrian government troops tightened their grip on Monday across a swathe of northern and eastern territory after it was abruptly abandoned by Kurdish forces in a dramatic shift that has ...

Syrian government troops are pushing towards Raqqa and Hasakah in the northeast of the country, the last strongholds of the U.S.-backed autonomous Kurdish-led administration, government officials and security ...

The Syrian army has combed through Aleppo city’s Sheikh Maksoud district, it said on Saturday, signalling it had seized the area from Kurdish fighters by force after a temporary ...

Fighting intensified on Thursday between Syrian government troops and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo, with a fierce exchange of fire extending into the night and rescue workers ...