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September 16, 2026 12:21 AM

India, Syria discuss bilateral cooperation in disaster management

India and Syria on Tuesday discussed avenues for bilateral cooperation in disaster management and capacity building. Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of India in Syria, Renu Yadav, met Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed Al-Saleh in Damascus. The Embassy of India said the two sides discussed various avenues of bilateral cooperation in the areas of disaster management and capacity building. The meeting comes as India and Syria continue efforts to strengthen bilateral en...

August 20, 2026 9:45 AM

Syria says no Turkish military build-up planned at airbase struck by Israel

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said he made clear to Israel there were no plans to establish a Turkish military base at Abu al-Duhur airbase, which Israel struck on Tuesday, saying the site was being rehabilitated for use by the Syrian Air Force. Al-Shaibani said Turkish military officers had visited the base as part of training and broader military cooperation. He denied any Turkish military build-up, saying the facility was largely empty and not yet operational. "There was ...

August 19, 2026 8:50 AM

Israeli airstrikes hit Syrian airbase, drawing Turkish condemnation

Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, drawing condemnation from Turkey and criticism from a U.S. envoy who called it an "unnecessary escalation". Syria's state-run Ekhbariya television, citing a military source, said Israel carried out eight airstrikes on the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur base near Aleppo in northwest Syria. A separate military source and a civilian who lives near the base said there were no casualties. The attack appeared t...

August 17, 2026 3:13 PM

End of an era: Russia exits Syria

Russia is officially giving up independent, sovereign control of its two strategic crown jewels on the Mediterranean coast -- the Hmeimim air base and the Tartus Naval facility. This marks the end of Russia's era as an absolute military arbiter in the eastern Mediterranean. Signed after the spectacular collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, this Memorandum of Understanding strips Russia of its exclusive, extraterritorial outposts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJSUvokmQY ...

July 6, 2026 8:10 AM

Trump to meet leaders of Ukraine, Syria alongside NATO summit

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy while in Turkey this week for a NATO summit to make a renewed push to end the war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday. Trump is scheduled to arrive at the summit on Tuesday. His first meeting will be with the summit host, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Trump will also meet with Syrian ⁠President Ahmed al-Sharaa and hold a news conference, the White House said. A senior U.S. official who...

May 8, 2026 2:16 PM

Australia charges two women linked to ISIS with slavery after return from Syria

Australian police on Friday charged two women linked to the Islamic State extremist group with slavery offences after they returned from Syria, where they had been detained in a refugee camp for more than seven years. The women, Kawsar Ahmad, 54, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31, face crimes against humanity charges including owning and using a slave in Syria, which carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, police said. The pair, among a group of four women and nine children who returned...

January 23, 2026 10:44 AM

UN agencies take responsibility for IS camps in Syria after Kurds retreat

The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Islamic State, after the rapid collapse of Kurdish-led forces who guarded them for years. Iraq, which has begun taking in detainees transferred from prisons in Syria as the Kurds retreat, said it would begin prosecuting them through its criminal justice system, and called on other countries to help take them in. More than 10,000 mem...

January 21, 2026 10:29 AM

Syria gives Kurds four days to accept integration as US signals end of support

Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accept. The lightning government advances in recent days and the apparent withdrawal of U.S. support for the continued holding of territory by the Syrian Democratic Forces represent the biggest change of control in the country since rebels ousted Bashar a...

January 18, 2026 2:10 PM

US kills al Qaeda affiliate leader tied to December attack in Syria, Centcom says

U.S. military forces on Friday killed an al Qaeda affiliate leader linked to an Islamic State attack on Americans in Syria last month, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Saturday. Bilal Hasan al-Jasim had "direct ties" to an ISIS gunman who killed and injured U.S. and Syrian personnel on December 13 in Palmyra, Syria, Central Command said. “The death of a terrorist operative linked to the deaths of three Americans demonstrates our resolve in pursuing terrorists who attack our forces...

January 9, 2026 12:12 PM

Syria conflict: Ceasefire declared in Aleppo amid ongoing tensions

A ceasefire has been declared in parts of Aleppo following days of heavy fighting between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Syria’s defence ministry says the unilateral truce took effect early Friday at three a.m. local time in the Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh and Bani Zeid districts. Under the agreement, SDF-affiliated fighters are to withdraw carrying only light personal weapons, while the Syrian army has pledged safe passage towards the northeast. State me...