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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 ...

Russian military announces new combat helicopter and air defense base in a formerly U.S.-controlled northern Syrian stronghold (Twitter)

November 14th, 2019 - 12:35 GMT

Russia Controls Northeast Syrian Airport Previously Held by US Troops

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Koerber Foundation in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2019. HANNIBAL HANSCHKE / POOL / AFP

November 12th, 2019 - 01:08 GMT

US Holds Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Meeting in Washington

Syrian Constitutional Committee meeting in Geneva (Twitter)

November 12th, 2019 - 12:13 GMT

Will The Syrian Constitutional Committee Take Off in Geneva?

Syrian municipality workers clearing debris from building in Damascus' Mazze neighbourhood following an air strike (AFP)

November 12th, 2019 - 08:56 GMT

Israeli Airstrikes on Damascus Kills Two People

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November 11th, 2019 - 12:16 GMT

Turkey Starts Deporting ISIS Militants

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said US operation a trick, Baghdadi may be hiding. (AFP/ File Photo)

November 11th, 2019 - 10:27 GMT

Syria's Assad Accuses US of Faking The Killing of Al-Baghdadi

Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State (IS) group’s embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, March 5, 2019. (AFP pic)

November 11th, 2019 - 08:27 GMT

'Mini Caliphate': Will The Camp Kids Revive ISIS?

Troops are now limited to a smaller, tougher to defend zone, and focused on protecting oil fields that legally belong to Damascus. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

November 11th, 2019 - 07:12 GMT

US Will Keep About 600 troops in Syria

Commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi (Twitter)

November 10th, 2019 - 08:07 GMT

SDF Leader Says Turkey Displaced 30,000 Kurds Since Ceasefire in North Syria

A convoy of US armored vehicles patrols the village of Ein Diwar in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on November 4, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

November 7th, 2019 - 09:49 GMT

Moscow Lashes Out at Washington for Seeking to Exploit Syrian Oil Fields?

US President Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn upon his return to the White House by Marine One, in Washington, DC, November 3, 2019, after returning from a trip to New York. Olivier Douliery / AFP

November 6th, 2019 - 11:01 GMT

Trump is Likely to Block Congress Sanctions on Turkey

A Syrian boy on his bicycle looks at a convoy of US armoured vehicles patrolling fields near the northeastern town of Qahtaniyah at the border with Turkey, on October 31, 2019. US forces accompanied by Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) patrolled part of Syria's border with Turkey, in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area earlier this month, an AFP correspondent reported. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

November 6th, 2019 - 08:42 GMT

Moscow Decries US Move to Build Two Military Bases in Syria