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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 ...

A Syrian Kurdish boy sits on a destroyed tank in the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 27, 2015. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)

August 11th, 2016 - 09:58 GMT

Several breaches of 3-hour-old ceasefire reported in Syria’s Aleppo

A member of the Iraqi security forces holds an Iraqi national flag in Khalidiya, east of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, on August 1, 2016, during ongoing fighting against Daesh. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

August 11th, 2016 - 08:30 GMT

US says 45,000 Daesh fighters killed in two years of coalition strikes

A rebel fighter cooks food on a make-shift stove in Syria's Aleppo. (AFP/File)

August 11th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Food reaches Aleppo after month-long blockade

Once Syria's commercial hub, Aleppo has been transformed into a bombed-out, divided city since fighting first erupted there in 2012. (AFP/File)

August 9th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Reinforcements are called as battle for Aleppo intensifies

Syrian men help an injured person following a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces that hit an open market in the northern city of Aleppo, on June 3, 2015, killing and injuring people. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

August 9th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Assad regime vacuum bombs Syrian city

The largest group of militants is the Saudis, having contributed 24,500 Saudi fighters. (AFP/File)

August 8th, 2016 - 02:58 GMT

4,000 Jordanians are fighting in Syria

A woman and child were killed by rebel rocket fire in northern Aleppo, Sunday. (AFP/File)

August 8th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

3 civilians killed in Aleppo

An opposition tank drives through a government-held neighborhood in Aleppo on August 5, 2016. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

August 6th, 2016 - 04:14 GMT

Siege on Aleppo broken

A Syrian woman who fled the assault launched by Arab and Kurdish forces against Islamic State (IS) fighters in the town of Manbij talks to a Kurdish fighter upon her arrival at an encampment on the outskirts of the town, June 4, 2016. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

August 6th, 2016 - 09:36 GMT

Syria’s Manbij recaptured from Daesh: Syrian Observatory

The US has pledged to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US by the end of September. (AFP/File)

August 6th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

About 5,000 Syrian refugees admitted to the US in last two months

US President Barack Obama chaired a National Security Council Meeting at the Pentagon August 4, 2016 on the anti-Daesh campaign and received an update from his national security team on the efforts to degrade and destroy the group. (AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)

August 5th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Obama: Russia must show it is ‘serious’ about defeating Daesh, ending Syrian conflict

A picture taken on August 1, 2016 shows Syrian rebels gathering around the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter after it was shot down in Idlib province. (AFP/Mohamed al-Bakour)

August 4th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Assad blamed for toxic gas attack on Syrian town where Russian helicopter was downed