Browsing: Middle East

Visiting French special envoy for Syria Jean-François Guillaume said Tuesday, December 17, his country was preparing to stand beside Syrians after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster by rebels…

An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under…

Israeli air and ground strikes killed more than 50 people in Gaza on Sunday, including children and a journalist, according to medics. The attacks hit multiple locations, including a UN-run school sheltering displaced families in Khan Younis, where graphic scenes of casualties were reported.

Syrian HTS leader says rebel factions that overthrew Assad will be ‘disbanded’ HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says fighters will all be ‘subject to the law’…

Syria’s rebel factions will be “disbanded,” the head of the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as the former president denounced…

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Israel announced plans to shut its Dublin embassy, accusing Ireland’s government of “extreme anti-Israel policies.” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar criticised Ireland for supporting South Africa’s legal action at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of “genocide.”  

Thousands of Israelis staged a protest on Saturday to demand that the remaining hostages still being held in Gaza be released. There has been guarded optimism…

Syria is witnessing mass celebrations as citizens gather to mark the end of five decades of rule by the Assad regime. Images from Damascus show large crowds assembling for the first Friday prayers since Islamist rebels seized control of the capital on Sunday.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 35 Palestinians, including 12 individuals guarding aid trucks, according to medics and Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence authority. The guards were reportedly protecting lorries carrying flour to UN warehouses in southern Gaza, which have been targeted by violent theft amid severe food shortages.

As Syria slowly returns to everyday life and regroups, another concern is growing in Europe: Islamist terrorists with European passports could take advantage of the…

Today, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Ankara to discuss the situation in Syria with his Turkish counterpart. The G-7 states also discuss.…

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after…

At least 19 people were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a residential building in northern Gaza, according to medical officials and Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency. The strike targeted a three-story house near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, widely known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), declared that the former regime’s notorious security apparatus would be dismantled. The statement, reported by Reuters, came after the fall of Assad’s government.

What impact will the fall of Bashar al-Assad have on ongoing proceedings in France against former Syrian regime officials? According to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s…

Israel strikes Assad’s military 480 times as Iran’s ayatollah blames US for fall of regime Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Iran had…

Refugees displaced by Syria’s long civil war are starting to return home following the dramatic fall of former president Bashar al-Assad. The overthrow of Assad by Islamist rebels has intensified global debate about the future of millions of Syrian refugees who fled the conflict, particularly in Europe and the Middle East.

Syria’s new transitional prime minister, Mohammed al-Bashir, has called for the nation to “enjoy stability and calm” following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. Bashir, a former leader in the rebel-held northwest, was appointed to lead a transitional government until March 2025.

The fall of the Syrian ruler Assad is fueling the refugee debate in Germany. However, just days after the end of the dictatorship, Syria’s future…

For decades, the Assad regime arbitrarily imprisoned, tortured and killed people. After the regime was overthrown by Islamist militias, more and more gruesome details about…

Humanitarian aid to North Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on October 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Humanitarian aid to North Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on October 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United…

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Syria’s main Islamist rebel group, has announced plans to publicly name senior officials from Bashar al-Assad’s regime who were involved in the torture of political prisoners. He also stated that rewards will be offered for information about army and security officers accused of committing war crimes.

Israeli warplanes have carried out extensive air strikes across Syria, including in the capital, Damascus, according to Syrian state media and monitoring groups. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that more than 100 strikes targeted military facilities over the past two days.