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Syria shoots down latest barrage of Israeli missiles

Syrian air defiance intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus overnight, with no casualties reported, a military source told Syria's official news agency SANA. "The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south of Damascus," with Syria's air defense intercepting most of the missiles, SANA quoted the military source as […]

US-backed Syrian opposition want united front with army against Turkish invasion

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces would coordinate with Syrian government troops to fend off any Turkish invasion of the north, the SDF commander told Reuters on Sunday, saying Damascus should use its air defense systems against Turkish planes. Ankara has vowed a new offensive on swathes of northern Syria controlled by the SDF, a Kurdish-led […]

Lebanon's spy chief will help US find missing journalist in Syria

Lebanon's intelligence chief has said he will visit Syria for talks with Syrian leaders about the fate of a U.S. reporter who went missing in Syria a decade ago. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said U.S. officials want him to resume efforts to bring home Austin Tice and other Americans missing in Syria. Tice, a freelance […]

Erdogan says ready for new operations in Syria

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Ankara would soon launch new military operations along its southern borders to create 30-km deep safe zones to combat terrorist threats from these regions. "The main target of these operations will be areas which are centers of attacks to our country and safe zones," Erdogan said, without elaborating. […]

Turkey won't allow Russia to transport troops to Syria via its airspace

Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian civilian and military planes flying to Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying Saturday by local media. The announcement marks one of the strongest responses to date by Turkey, which has cultivated close ties with Moscow despite being a member of the NATO defense alliance, to […]

Russian-trained Syrian division headed to Ukraine

During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country's long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future." Now members of Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan's […]

Saudis end boycott of Syrian TV with Syrian war drama

Breaking a decade-old boycott by Gulf broadcasters over a diplomatic standoff with the Damascus government, a Syrian war drama figures this month on the Ramadan menu of a Saudi-owned television channel. Syrian dramas have long been popular across the region, but since Arab states in the Gulf suspended ties with President Bashar al-Assad's government in […]

Pentagon says US forces in Syria attacked by explosives, not missiles

A recent attack on U.S. forces in Syria was the result of explosives being placed at a facility hosting troops in eastern Syria and not rocket fire, the Pentagon said on Monday. Earlier this month, the U.S.-led coalition said four U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries after "indirect fire" on a base in Syria known as […]

Jumblat says Syria, Iran conspiring against him in elections

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has said that “the Syrian-Iranian axis and the Free Patriotic Movement” will be running in the parliamentary elections against “what’s left of an independent national decision in Mukhtara and in areas other than Mukhtara.” “The entire Democratic Gathering is targeted and this is not Taymour Jumblat’s battle but rather […]

BREAKING NEWS - Israel bombs Syria via Lebanese airspace

Israeli warplanes on Saturday carried out an air raid on targets in central Syria from Lebanon’s airspace, Syrian state media said. Syria’s air defenses managed to shoot down some of the fired missiles, Syrian news agency SANA reported. Lebanese media meanwhile reported that the Israeli jets overflew the city of Jbeil at a very low […]

Iran, Syria in Ukraine talks

The foreign ministers of Iran and Syria, two allies of Russia, will discuss the war in Ukraine and other developments during a meeting in Damascus on Wednesday, Syria's foreign minister said. Faisal Mekdad spoke to reporters at Damascus airport shortly after his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, arrived for talks with top Syrian officials. Iran is […]

Ukraine insists Assad, Hezbollah fighters working for Russians

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has alleged that the Russian army has chosen around 1,000 volunteers from what it called “the so-called army of Bashar al-Assad and Hizbullah.” “The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to make up for the loss of personnel at […]

US does not suspect Russia escalating war in Syria

Russia does not appear to be looking to escalate the conflict in Syria, the leading U.S. general in the Middle East said on Friday, even as Moscow pursues its invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces have remained in Syria since 2015 when they helped turn the tide in a civil war in favor of President Bashar […]

Al-Rahi wants Syrian refugees repatriated

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday reiterated his call for the return of the displaced Syrians to their country. “In the name of neutrality, we demand the return of the displaced Syrians to their country, so that they preserve their land’s resources, culture, dignity and history,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon. Noting that […]

Experts compare Russian war to Syrian theatre

Besieging cities, shelling civilian infrastructure and arranging "safe corridors": the tactics used by Russia in its war on Ukraine mirror those it tested and fine-tuned to drain resistance in Syria's conflict. But unlike its Syria play book, the challenge Russia faces from a Western-backed army in Ukraine dwarfs that of Syrian rebels who lacked military […]

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