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President Ahmed Al-Sharaa

September 22nd, 2025 - 06:06 GMT

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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 ...

Damascus-Aleppo highway (Twitter)

March 8th, 2020 - 11:47 GMT

The Strategic M-5 Highway Connecting Damascus to Aleppo Reopens

A woman and her baby are pictured in a tent at a migrants' makeshift camp near a bus terminal, as they wait to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 8, 2020. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000

March 8th, 2020 - 09:37 GMT

After Border Chaos Greece Agrees to Build 2 New Shelters For 100s of Asylum Seekers

Refugees and migrants who arrived on Lesbos island after March 1, stand in the port of Mytilene next to the military carrier which accomodates them on the island of Lesbos on March 7, 2020. Over 1,700 migrants have landed on Lesbos and four other Aegean islands from Turkey over the past week, adding to the 38,000 already crammed into abysmal and overstretched refugee centres. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP

March 8th, 2020 - 07:56 GMT

Greece Imposes More Restrictions on Asylum Seekers as Refugees Surges

Syrian army soldiers gather with vehicles in a square in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern Idlib province on March 6, 2020, as government forces assumed control over it. AFP

March 7th, 2020 - 09:02 GMT

EU Hails Turkey-Russia Ceasefire Accord on Syria

A family sits on a blanket near the yard of a small church where they spent the night after arriving last night near Skala Sykamnias on the Greek island of Lesbos on March 6, 2020. A group of 42 refugees and migrants managed to by pass coast guard patrols and landed on the shores of Lesbos in the evening of March 5. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP

March 6th, 2020 - 11:13 GMT

Tear Gas Fired From Turkey Towards Greek Border Guards

A wounded Syrian child sits at a makeshift clinic in the town of Maaret Misrin following Syrian government forces airstrikes on March 5, 2020 in the country's northwestern Idlib province. Russian air strikes killed at least 15 civilians including a child in the last major opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. Aref TAMMAWI / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 01:35 GMT

Syrian War Makes Idlib Province Uninhabitable for Civilians

A migrant rests on the grass verge as they gather near the Tunca river waiting to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 5, 2020. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000 were stopped from entering be

March 5th, 2020 - 01:25 GMT

Turkey Slams EU Over Killing of Asylum-Seekers in Greece

Migrants climb a hill as they gather near the Tunca river in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 5, 2020 waiting to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000 were stopped from entering between Februar

March 5th, 2020 - 01:21 GMT

Athens Tell Refugees Greece is 'a Bridge to Europe'

A picture taken from Binnish shows smoke billowing above buildings during pro-regime forces air strikes on rebel-held areas surrounding the regime-controlled town of Saraqeb, in the northwestern Idlib province on March 4, 2020. Muhammad HAJ KADOUR / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 07:26 GMT

Two Turkish Soldiers Killed by Syrian Regime Forces in Idlib

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (Twitter)

March 5th, 2020 - 07:16 GMT

US Senator Urges NATO to Back Turkey With Air Defense Support in Idlib

The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer reacts during the political Ash Wednesday meeting of the CDU Baden-Wuerttemberg in Fellbach near Stuttgart, southern Germany, on February 26, 2020. THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP

March 4th, 2020 - 11:51 GMT

Germany Renews Call for Humanitarian 'Protected Zone' in Syria

Migrants wait at the buffer zone in front of the Pazarkule border crossing to Greece, in Edirne on March 3, 2020. Migrants and refugees hoping to enter Greece from Turkey appeared to be fanning out across a broader swathe of the roughly 200-kilometer-long land border on March 3, 2020, maintaining pressure on the frontier after Ankara declared its borders with the European Union open. BULENT KILIC / AFP

March 4th, 2020 - 09:21 GMT

EU Leaders Angry at Ankara: Migrants Can Sneak into Europe $15