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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 Turkish military convoy drives on a highway linking Idlib to the Syrian Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on March 31, 2020. Mohammed AL-RIFAI / AFP

April 2nd, 2020 - 07:08 GMT

Turkish Column of 25 Armoured Vehicles Enter Syria

A second death case of the coronavirus was registered today in Syria (Twitter)

March 31st, 2020 - 09:55 GMT

Syria Announces Second Death From Coronavirus

Syrian city of Aleppo / AFP

March 30th, 2020 - 09:42 GMT

Nicholas Pritchard

How British Researchers are Using the Web to Track COVID-19 in Syria

Syria (Twitter)

March 29th, 2020 - 10:46 GMT

EU Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in Syria to Deal With The Novel Coronavirus

Mohamed bin Zayed opens drive-thru COVID-19 test facility (Twitter)

March 29th, 2020 - 06:11 GMT

Mohamed bin Zayed, Bashar Al Assad Talk on Phone About Covid-19 Which Killed 5 in Syria

Syria (Twitter)

March 25th, 2020 - 12:31 GMT

NGOs Warn Virus Outbreak Could Ravage North Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached a deal on March 5 to create a security corridor with joint Turkish and Russian patrols starting on March 15 along the key M4 highway in northern Syria, which runs roughly parallel to the border with Turkey, from northeastern Kurdish-controlled regions to the Mediterranean coast. Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP

March 24th, 2020 - 07:52 GMT

Drone Shot Down Near Russia's Airbase in Syria's Hmeimim

A medical volunteer takes the temperature of a displaced Syrian girl next to a poster, outlining 7 steps to prevent the spread of CONVID-19, at a camp for the internally displaced near Dayr Ballut, near the Turkish border in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province on March 22, 2020, during a campaign to prevent the spread of the virus. Rami al SAYED / AFP

March 23rd, 2020 - 09:12 GMT

Bloody Syria Registers its Coronavirus First Case

A Syrian Red Crescent member sprays disinfectant along an alley of the historic Hamidiyah souk (market) in the old city of Syria's capital Damascus on March 22, 2020, as part of efforts against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP

March 23rd, 2020 - 07:43 GMT

There is no Covid-19 Cases in Syria But is This True?

Migrants arrive at the port of Mytilene in the Greek island of Lesbos on March 20, 2020 to be transfered in a closed camp in northern Greece as the country is battling hard to control the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 infection and also racing to avoid contagion among tens of thousands of migrants in overcrowded camps nationwide, a situation recently termed a "health bomb" by government spokesman. Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP

March 21st, 2020 - 10:03 GMT

600 Asylum Seekers Moved From Lesbos to Another Camp in Greece

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington DC, on March 17, 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has transformed the US virtually overnight from a place of boundless consumerism to one suddenly constrained by nesting and social distancing.The crisis tests all retailers, leading to temporary store closures at companies like Apple and Nike, manic buying of food staples at supermarkets and big-box stores like Walmart even as many stores remain open for busine

March 19th, 2020 - 09:12 GMT

US Blames Russia For The Deaths of Turkish Troops in Syria, Slam Sanctions on Damascus

A young boy looks on as he walks at the unofficial camp net to the refugee camp of Moria in the island of Lesbos after a fire broke out, on March 16, 2020. Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP

March 19th, 2020 - 08:02 GMT

As The EU Seals Off Borders 10K Refugees Are Locked on The Turkish-Greek Crossing