Germany’s public prosecutor has arrested four suspected members of a Syrian militia and one suspected member of the Syrian secret service, it said on Wednesday. The detained are suspected of killing and attempting to kill civilians in what amounts to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Four of them are also accused of torture. The […]
A Syrian gunman has opened fire on the US embassy north of Beirut, the Lebanese army has said. Soldiers shot and wounded the assailant, identified only as a Syrian national, according to a statement posted online. The gunman has since been taken to hospital. The US embassy said the attack, which occurred on Wednesday morning […]
The Lebanese army has said a gunman attempted to attack the US embassy near Beirut. The military said that soldiers shot and injured an assailant, who they only described as a Syrian national. The gunman was taken to hospital. Local media reported that there was a gunfight for almost half an hour near the US […]
FILE – Muslim pilgrims pray around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 2023. For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians traveled on a direct flight early Tuesday from Damascus to Saudi Arabia for the annual Islamic Hajj […]
BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb attached to a car exploded early Saturday in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage, state media reported. Damascus’ Mazze neighborhood houses the Iranian consulate, destroyed last month in a strike blamed on Israel. The attack […]
A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison on Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil. The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture and killing […]
Syrian first lady Asma Assad has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the office of the country’s president Bashar Assad has announced. The president’s wife was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia “after presenting with several symptoms and following a comprehensive series of medical tests and examinations,” the statement said. She will “adhere to a specialised treatment protocol […]
DUBAI (Reuters) -Syria’s first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer. The statement said Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to isolate, and that she would step away from […]
The trial of a 47-year-old Syrian man began on Friday in the northern German port city of Hamburg in relation to potential war crimes committed by a Syrian government militia between 2012 and 2015. The accused is a 47-year-old Syrian man who entered Germany in February 2016 and was detained in the north-western city of […]
The trial of a 47-year-old Syrian man began on Friday in the northern German port city of Hamburg in relation to potential war crimes committed by a Syrian government militia between 2012 and 2015. The accused is a 47-year-old Syrian man who entered Germany in February 2016 and was detained in the north-western city of […]
The trial of a 47-year-old Syrian man begins on Friday in the northern German port city of Hamburg in relation to potential war crimes committed by a Syrian government militia between 2012 and 2015. The accused is a 47-year-old Syrian man who entered Germany in February 2016 and was detained in the north-western city of […]
A court has sentenced a Syrian woman to life in prison for a deadly explosion in a busy shopping district in Istanbul in 2022, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. Alham Albashir was given seven consecutive life sentences after being convicted on terrorism charges. The blast on November 13th, 2022 tore through Istiklal Avenue, a thoroughfare […]