The United States (U.S.) seeks normalisation of relations with the new government of Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. “We are currently exploring normalising relations with Syria’s new government as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed Al-Sharaa,’’ Trump said at the Gulf-US Summit in Riyadh. The meeting between Trump and…
Unknown armed assailants launched an attack on a General Security Directorate building in the Mazzeh district of Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, a war monitor reported. The assailants, who arrived in a vehicle, threw grenades and fired automatic weapons at the facility, prompting an immediate response from on-duty security personnel, said the Syrian Observatory for…
An international war crimes prosecutor Stephen Rapp said evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. According to Rapp more than 100,000 people have been tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and…
Activists in Idlib said that Syrian and Russian warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on Monday on areas taken over by rebels in north-west Syria during a surprise offensive. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence organization which works in rebel-held areas, there were civilian casualties and numerous residential buildings were destroyed. An…
Escalated Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed 16 members of four Syrian families, including women and children, a war monitor reported. The death toll among Syrian refugees, who had fled the war in Syria seeking safety in Lebanon, continues to rise as the conflict intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah, a Britain-based war monitor said. With Monday’s…
