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September 22nd, 2025 - 06:06 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Syrian community in a historic US visit

ALBAWABA - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has made a historic visit to the United States on Sunday, becoming the first Syrian leader to land in Washington in about since 1967. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that al-Sharaa arrived in New York on Sunday in a "historic visit" to attend the UN General Assembly, marking the first appearance by a Syrian leader in the US at the annual ...

Syrian-Kurds return to the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on August 23, 2016, after regime forces and Kurdish fighters agreed to a truce following a week of clashes. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

August 24th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Free Syrian Army captures border town of Kaklijah from Daesh

Turkish tanks fire from their army position close to the town of Kilis, south central Turkey, towards the Syria border, on February 17, 2016. (AFP/File)

August 24th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Turks flee Syrian border town of Karkaris following Daesh mortar attack

This file photo taken on November 9, 2015 shows workers constructing a layered cemetery in the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus to make space for the burial of the increasing number of casualties due to airstrikes by the Syrian regime. (AFP/Amer Almohibany)

August 24th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Government raid on Damascus suburb kills seven civilians

Members of the Kurdish police patrol in the neighborhood of Al-Masaken in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka during ongoing fighting with regime forces on August 22, 2016. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

August 23rd, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Kurdish, government forces agree to ceasefire in Syria’s Hasaka

Smoke rises from a Syrian regime airstrike on rebel positions inside Aleppo. (AFP/George Orfalian)

August 23rd, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

As Aleppo fighting rages on, UN humanitarian chief calls for immediate action

Two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bombers at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province. (AFP/File)

August 22nd, 2016 - 01:56 GMT

Iran criticizes Russia over revelation of secret use of military bases

A Kurdish female fighter of the People's Protection Units (YPG) looks on at a training camp near the Syrian-Turkish border on February 13, 2015. (AFP/File)

August 21st, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Turkey claims Assad regime ‘threatened’ by Kurds

Smoke billows following air strikes by regime forces on rebel positions during intense fighting in Aleppo on August 18, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

August 20th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Clashes continue in Aleppo despite push for truce

A resident of the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo, inspects the damage caused by reported air raids that targeted rebel-held areas in the northern city on August 16, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

August 19th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Russia signs on to 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo

Survivors freed from Syrian regime prisons said they witnessed other prisoners dying while in custody. (AFP/File)

August 18th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

Amnesty International estimates 18,000 killed in Syrian prisons since 2011

This file photo taken on April 30, 2016 shows Jowan Ibrahim (C), the commander of the Kurdish police (aka Asayish) arriving at a checkpoint where a suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen in Syria's divided northeastern city of Qamishli. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

August 18th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Opposition forces retake Syrian border town of Cobanbey from Daesh

A hospital in Idlib, destroyed by an earlier airstrike. (AFP/File)

August 18th, 2016 - 05:30 GMT

Russian airstrikes continue in Syria: Fifteen killed, 23 wounded in Idlib assault