Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sworn in for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, after winning more than 95.1 percent of the votes cast in government-held areas, Al Jazeera reports. Saturday’s swearing-in …
The next round of Astana Format talks on Syria will take place in Nur-Sultan before the end of this year, with consideration of an epidemiological situation, says the joint statement of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, adopted after the 16th Astana Format meeting.
U.S. troops in eastern Syria came under rocket attack Monday, with no reported casualties, one day after U.S. Air Force planes carried out airstrikes near the Iraq-Syria border against what the Pentagon said were facilities used by Iran-backed …
German-French plan for talks with Putin shot down mainly by Eastern European members allied with the US
The U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria in retaliation for drone attacks, the Pentagon announced Sunday evening. The strikes targeted sites that been used to launch drone attacks on U.S. personnel …
The United States believes that Russia and Turkey agree to discuss the withdrawal of foreign forces from Libya, a high-ranking State Department spokesman said, according to the press service of the State Department. "We’re …
Russia has begun a project to rehabilitate Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra. Pursuant to three agreements signed with the Syrian government, Russia has announced the start of a project to restore artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs in central Syria
The IX Moscow Conference on International Security has opened on Wednesday. It was addressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Geopolitical processes are becoming increasingly turbulent in the world despite some positive …
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Syria will be on the agenda of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden. "Our position on the humanitarian access issue is well …
A Russian soldier was killed and three more wounded when their armored vehicle exploded hitting a mine in the Syrian region of Al Hasakah, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. "On June 9, when inspecting the patrol route …
Last week, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was re-elected with 95 percent of the vote. He has been keen to portray the poll as a sign that the country is returning to normality after a decade of chaos and civil war. That is important if …
An international meeting on Syria in the Astana format may take place in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, before the end of June, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Thursday on the …
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was among those to be vaccinated after Syria received a first shipment of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, according to Syrian ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad. The ambassador did not …
Heavy Russian assistance helped Damascus avoid a disaster and Syria's surrender to Islamists, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday. "Over the past 4-5 years heavy assistance from our country …
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Bashar al-Assad on his victory at the presidential elections in Syria, according to a congratulatory telegram circulated by the Kremlin press office on Friday. "The voting results have …
Speaker of the People’s Council of Syria Hammouda Sabbagh announced on Thursday the results of the vote in the May 26 presidential election. "The incumbent President Bashar al-Assad won the election, securing the support of …
The European Union has extended sanctions against the Syrian regime for one additional year, until June 1, 2022, in light of the continued repression of the civilian population in the country, the European Council said in a statement on …
The blast occurred as people of the Middle Eastern country are casting their votes in presidential elections. An explosion hit the Syrian city of Daraa on election day, a source said. "The explosion took place …
Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office. The government says the election shows Syria is functioning normally. Assad is running …
Three rockets were fired from Syria toward northern Israel, the Israeli army said in a statement late Friday, Daily Sabah reports. Two of the rockets fired from Syria crashed into open fields of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights while …
