Syrian
Donald Trump live: US president expected to meet Syrian leader in Riyadh  Al Jazeera Source link
Since armed rebels entered Damascus, Syria, and overthrew the reign of President Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, U.S. government officials have been waiting to see if any remnants of the former regime’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would be found.
Live news: US tells Syrian rebel leader it will not pursue $10mn bounty  Financial Times Source link
An American man identifying himself as Travis Timmerman has been found near the Syrian capital Damascus after being freed from a prison as rebels took over the country. Mr Timmerman, who said he was arrested upon entering Syria seven months ago, told the BBC’s US news partner CBS that he had been trying to make […]
U.S. prosecutors are accusing two senior Syrian officials of overseeing a notorious torture center that abused peaceful protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman who was later believed to have been executed. The indictment was released Monday, two days after a shock rebel offensive overthrew Syrian President Bashar Assad. The U.S., U.N. and others accuse him […]
Syria’s government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance, and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar Assad had left the country. Â Syrian opposition fighters said early Sunday local time that they had entered Damascus and residents of the capital reported the sounds […]
New Delhi: Syrian rebel forces claim to have made inroads, bringing them closer to the heart of the capital Damascus, the seat of President Bashar al-Assad’s power. The swift advance has plunged Assad’s regime into its most precarious position since the brutal civil war which erupted in 2011 after a civil uprising. According to Reuters citing […]
Damascus is expected to fall, three U.S. officials told CBS News, as Syrian insurgents have surrounded the capital in a swiftly moving offensive. Iranian forces who’d been defending Syria’s President Bashar Assad have “pretty much” evacuated from Syria, the U.S. officials said. Syrian insurgents reached the suburbs of Damascus on Saturday as part of a […]
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters carried out a rare attack Monday in eastern Syria, striking at three posts manned by pro-government gunmen and claiming that they killed 18 of them in a major escalation near the border with Iraq. The renewed clashes in Syria’s eastern oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour came amid high […]
The strikes extend a series of tit-for-tat attacks as Israel’s war in Gaza threatens escalation across the region. A drone strike on a United States base in eastern Syria overnight has killed several fighters from Kurdish-led forces. The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday that seven fighters were killed and […]
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