Canada yesterday removed Syria from its list of states that support terrorism, and revoked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) designation as a “terrorist entity,” joining a list of countries to ease sanctions on Damascus. The moves come after HTS ousted former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad last December and took control of the government, reports AF...
•A bomb explosion At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus, authorities said, with Syria’s interior ministry blaming a member of the Islamic State group. The international community condemned the attack, the first of its kind in the Syrian capital since Islamist-led forces toppled longtime ruler Bashar ...
•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer The UK yesterday lifted sanctions imposed during the rule of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad against 24 entities including Syria’s Central Bank, a statement said. The UK government said last month it planned to ease sanctions after Syria’s new leaders, former rebels who toppled Assad, sought to p...
•US President Donald Trump Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa congratulated US President Donald Trump on his inauguration, saying the American would “bring peace to the Middle East.” “We are confident that he is the leader to bring peace to the Middle East and restore stability to the region,” Sharaa’s administration said in a statement yester...
•Overthrown Syria President Bashar al-Assad Bashar al-Assad said today that Syria is in the hands of terrorism, the former president’s first statement since his ouster. Assad said his departure from Syria was not planned and that Moscow requested his evacuation from a military base that was under attack, reports AFP. “My departure from Syria w...
•Lebanese people celebrate taking over of the capital Damascus by Syrian rebel fighters The leader of the Islamist-led rebels who seized power in Damascus criticised Israel yesterday for its incursion into southern Syria this week but said his country was too exhausted for fresh conflict. Israeli troops entered the UN-patrolled buffer zone th...
•Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Turkey was set to reopen its embassy in Damascus today, nearly a week after President Bashar al-Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the diplomatic outpost was shuttered early in Syria’s civil war. The move came as Middle Eastern and Western diplomats gathered in Jordan [&he...
•Syrians flash the V for victory sign as they celebrate in the central city of Homs The rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad and are now in power in Syria and have appointed a transitional head of government today to run the country until March 1, a statement said. “The general command has tasked us […]
•UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday hailed the end of Syria’s “dictatorial regime” and urged the country to rebuild after President Bashar al-Assad’s sudden fall. “After 14 years of brutal war and the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity t...
•US Troops American air strikes killed up to 35 Islamic State group members in Syria earlier this week, the US military said today. It is the latest in a series of operations in recent months by US and local forces in Iraq and Syria against the jihadists, who once held swathes of territory in both […]
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