Israel fires missiles on border positions inside Syria
Israel fired a number of missiles on positions in Syria‘s border province of Quneitra on Wednesday, causing “material damage,” the Syrian military said in a statement.
The statement didn’...
Ministers highlight difficulties in returning migrants to home countries
Conditions are not yet safe for returns of Syrians to their country, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides told MPs on Friday while far-right Elam accused some parties of being part of ...
Roadside bomb attack kills 14 Syrian military personnel in Damascus (Updated)
A bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus on Wednesday killed at least 14 people, state media reported, the deadliest bombing in the Syrian capital in years, while army shelling ...
Oil slick is heading back towards Syria (Updated)
A massive oil slick which had been expected to hit Cape Apostolos Andreas in the Karpasia peninsula is now heading back to Syria, Turkish Cypriot authorities said on Tuesday.
The ...
Oil slick from Syria poised to reach Cyprus within hours (Update 3)
Authorities have for the past few days been monitoring an oil slick apparently making its way toward the island’s east coast, and stand ready to take action if necessary, ...
Syria opens first café run by people with Down syndrome
Wearing brown uniforms with orange rims and matching hats, several young Syrians with Down syndrome served between the tables, while some others stood behind a bar, preparing food and beverage ...
Autocracy and democracy: the human race has a dual heritage
At first I was going to write about the ‘Arab Problem’, because there is not a single functioning democracy in the Arab world. This week’s presidential coup in Tunisia ...
Syrian air defences intercept Israeli attack over Homs
Syria’s air defences intercepted an Israeli attack on the al Qusair area in Homs early on Thursday, Syrian state media reported.
A Syrian military source said in a statement ...
Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West calls fraudulent
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which ...
Syria says Israeli raids target Mediterranean port region of Latakia
Syrian air defences downed several Israeli missiles during pre-dawn raids on the Mediterranean port city of Latakia, the Syrian army said on Wednesday, a rare attack on the ancestral home ...
Syrian refugees face Ramadan penury amid Lebanon’s economic ruin
Hussein al-Khaled and his family have lived in a makeshift hut in Lebanon for a decade since fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria, but this year COVID and economic collapse ...
Ten Syrian men picked up off boat in Protaras
Ten Syrian men arrived on Friday afternoon by boat to Protaras, police said.
The group was first spotted off Cape Greco at around 10.30am by a police patrol vessel that ...
Syria: end the sanctions
The Syrian civil war is ten years old this week, and it’s time to stop it. At least half a million Syrians are dead, a quarter of the pre-war ...
Syria condemns “cowardly” US air strikes on Iran-backed militias
Syria condemned U.S. air strikes against Iran-backed militias in the east of the country on Friday as a cowardly act and urged President Joe Biden not to follow “the ...