Earthquake orphans are cared for at the Kuramaa Center in the Idlib Governorate, Northern Syria. Credit: Sonia Al Ali/IPS by Sonia Al Ali (idilib, syria) Friday, October 13, 2023 Inter Press Service IDILIB, SYRIA, Oct 13 (IPS) – Seven-year-old Salim al-Bakkar was orphaned in the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and …
Read More »Four Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli missile attack: Report
The attack wounded four other Syrian soldiers and caused some material damage, state media says. An Israeli missile attack near Syria’s capital, Damascus, has killed at least four Syrian soldiers and wounded four others, according to the official SANA news agency. Citing a military source, SANA said the attack took …
Read More »Video: Syrian Refugee Is Charged After Knife Attack in France
A local prosecutor said it was “premature” to determine the motive of the suspect, who was charged with attempted murder. The six victims, including four children, were no longer in critical condition.
Read More »Syrian refugee elected mayor of German town, years after fleeing war | CNN
CNN — A Syrian who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015 has won a mayoral election in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. Ryyan Alshebl, who left his hometown of As Suwayda in Syria eight years ago, ran as an independent in the municipality of Ostelsheim. He won …
Read More »Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey rush to a border crossing to return home.
Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey lined up at a border crossing on Wednesday in hopes of returning home temporarily after Syrian border officials announced that Turkey had agreed to let them go and then return later while it copes with a disastrous earthquake. The Syrian administration of Bab al-Hawa, …
Read More »Syrian refugee sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for plotting to bomb Nigerian church in US
A court in Pennsylvania, U.S. has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian American, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, to 208 months — over 17 years — in federal prison over his support for the dreaded terror group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and plot to bomb a Nigerian church in Pittsburgh. …
Read More »71 bodies of migrants found after boat sinks off Syrian coast (photos)
The bodies of 71 migrants have been found after a boat they were travelling in on Thursday, September 22, sank off Syria’s coast, while 20 survivors are being treated, Syria’s Health minister has said. Officials in the Syrian city of Tartus said Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals including women …
Read More »Syrian ship carrying ‘stolen’ Ukrainian grain docks in Lebanon
Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut says cargo vessel carrying stolen barley docked in the port of Tripoli on Thursday. A Syrian cargo ship, sanctioned by the United States and carrying what Ukraine says is stolen barley from the country, has docked in Lebanon, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in the Middle East …
Read More »More than 300,000 civilians killed in Syrian conflict: UN report
The report based on eight sources says some 306,887 civilians were killed in Syria between March 1, 2011 to March 31, 2021 due to the conflict. In the first 10 years of Syria’s conflict more than 300,000 civilians were killed, the United Nations has said, while on the same day …
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