Syria said on Saturday the country’s main airport in Damascus would resume international flights starting next week after such commercial trips were halted following last month’s ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. “We announce we will start receiving international flights to and from Damascus International Airport from” Tuesday, state news agency SANA said, quoting Ashhad al-Salibi, who heads…
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met with high-level Christian clergymen on Tuesday, amid calls to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month. “The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, meets a delegation from the Christian community in Damascus,” Syria’s General Command said in a statement on Telegram, which included pictures of the…
Fighters from the Military Operations Administration were seen at the entrance of Syria’s presidential palace after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government. A video circulating on social media showing at least two fighters at the entrance of the palace shooting in the air while the person recording the video saying, “thank God, we have reached…
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to “cooperate” with any leadership chosen by the people, after the Syrian opposition leader announces ‘fall’ of Syrian president al-Assad’s government The leader of “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, ordered forces not to approach official institutions in Damascus, saying they would remain under the prime…
The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive. The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered…
A US-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters has seized the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, three Syrian sources told Reuters on Friday, the third city to fall out of the government’s control in a week. Two security sources based in eastern Syria said the alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, had taken…
Armed opposition forces battled army troops on Tuesday as they advanced toward the city of Hama in central Syria, a war monitor said. “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS) and its allies fought some of the “most violent” clashes with troops in the area since launching a lightning offensive last week, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…
Iran said on Monday that it plans to keep military “advisors” in Syria after its ally’s second city Aleppo was overrun by opposition fighters in a surprise offensive. Tehran has been a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war that broke out in 2011, sending thousands of fighters to Syria. “We…
The presidents of Russia and Iran on Monday pledged “unconditional support” to Syrian President Bashar-al Assad amid a shock opposition offensive in the country’s northwest, the Kremlin said. In a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian, the pair “expressed unconditional support for the actions of Syria’s legitimate authorities to restore constitutional order and territorial sovereignty,”…
The Kremlin said Monday that it continued to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after opposition fighters last week wrested swathes of territory from government control. Moscow said so after al-Assad spoke of the “importance” of his allies in facing an opposition offensive that saw the Syrian government lose control of Aleppo. “We of course continue…
The command expressed the readiness of “the Syrian army to continue coping with its tasks” The Syrian army with Russian air support has destroyed five command centers and seven warehouses of terrorists in Aleppo and Idlib provinces over the past 24 hours. “Over the past 24 hours, the Syrian Army, supported by friendly Russian forces,…
The United States on Saturday said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad lost control of Aleppo because of his reliance on Russia and Iran. Syria’s “reliance on Russia and Iran,” along with its refusal to move forward with a 2015 peace process outlined by the UN Security Council, “created the conditions now unfolding,” National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett…
Syrian rebels in the last opposition enclave in northern Syria launched on Wednesday a wide-scale military operation against the Syrian army and seized territory in the first such advance in years, army and rebel sources said. The rebel offensive overran at least 10 areas under the control of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in northwestern Aleppo province, said a…
