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UN cross-border aid to Syria hangs on Russian decision

10 July 2020, 8:03

An internally displaced Syrian child from Idlib, stands outside a tent in Azaz, Syria on 22 February.

Ayatollah Khamenei: Americans will be expelled from Iraq, Syria

Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, renewing Iran’s demand for US troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East

18 May 2020, 4:15

A handout picture released by the official website of Iran`s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a meeting with school and university students in the capital Tehran on 3 November, 2019.

Ramadan meal reunites a community in war-torn Syria town

"This is the first time that we've got together since the enormous destruction that happened in the district," said Mohamad Jabar, 30, who attended the iftar on Thursday with his children.

11 May 2020, 3:27

People wait the call to prayer before they eat their Iftar meal provided by a group of volunteers, in a damaged neighbourhood, amid fear for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Atareb, Aleppo countryside Syria, 7 May 2020.

IS attack in Syrian desert kills 11 soldiers

The Islamic State (IS) carried out an attack in a desert region in eastern Syria, killing 11 Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters, a war monitor reported

8 May 2020, 2:49

IS attack in Syrian desert kills 11 soldiers

Bomb blast kills 40 people in Syria: Turkey

At least 40 civilians were killed, including 11 children, when a bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday, the Turkish defence ministry said, blaming the attack on the Syrian ...

29 April 2020, 2:46

Bomb blast kills 40 people in Syria: Turkey

Israeli strikes near Syria capital kill 3 civilians

Israeli air strikes near the Syrian capital early Monday killed three civilians, state media said

27 April 2020, 9:30

A stuffed toy that belongs to Taher al-Matar's son is pictured on the floor at their damaged house in the rebel-held town of Nairab, Idlib region, Syria on 17 April.

‘Syrian air force used chemical weapons in 2017 attacks’

Syrian Arab Air Force pilots flying Sukhoi Su-22 military planes and a helicopter dropped bombs containing poisonous chlorine and sarin nerve gas on a village in the country’s western Hama region in ...

9 April 2020, 3:27

An internally displaced Syrian child from Idlib, stands outside a tent in Azaz, Syria on 22 February.

Palestinian, Syrian refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded and rundown camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilise to help

5 April 2020, 4:51

A Syrian refugee woman wearing a face mask hangs clothes to dry, as Lebanon extends a lockdown by two weeks to combat the spread of coronavirus disease.

In Syria camp young teachers adapt again

After bombs forced him and his students from their homes, Ahmed Hadaja began teaching in a tent in northwest Syria. And now that the threat of coronavirus has shut even his tented school, he has ...

2 April 2020, 5:58

Ahmed Hadaja, a 21-year-old medic and volunteer Arabic teacher, watches with other teachers video lessons they recorded for students, after their tented school was shut due to the threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, Syria 30 March 2020.

Syria reports first coronavirus death

Syria’s health ministry said on Sunday that a woman who died after being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment was found to have been infected by coronavirus in the country’s first officially ...

30 March 2020, 5:18

People walk past shops in the old city of Damascus, Syria on 12 March.

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