DAMASCUS – Syrians will mark the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Monday, as the country continues to search for stability after more than a decade of war. Official celebrations are planned in Damascus’ central Umayyad Square, which has already witnessed large gatherings in the days leading up to the event. Other […]
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Syrian president visits US after being removed from terrorism blacklist
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a historic official visit, following his removal from the US terrorism blacklist a day earlier. The visit marks the first by a Syrian president to the US since Syria gained independence in 1946. Sharaa is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump at the […]
Syria’s post-assad parliament faces democracy concerns
Syria is selecting members of its first parliament after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, but the process has already drawn sharp criticism for being undemocratic and tightly controlled. Interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa will directly appoint 70 out of 210 members, while local committees handpicked by his electoral commission will choose the rest, raising concerns […]
War-ravaged Syria heads to polls with Assad set to win
Damascus: Polling May stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis. The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long conflict, that has killed more than 388,000 […]
What Syria went through
Following the so-called Arab Spring uprisings, Syria faced a civil war in which thousands of people were massacred. Besides Iran, Russia, and the Hezbollah from Lebanon, which were already considered its allies, Bashar al-Assad’s government received support from Iraq. The United States, Europe, Israel and other Arab countries backed the anti-Assad forces. Before the civil […]
Assad asks US backed Kurdish forces to choose between ceasefire and blood
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned US-backed Kurdish forces he would not hesitate to use force to retake the third of the country they control. “The only problem left in Syria is the SDF,” Assad told Russia Today in an interview aired Thursday, referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces which has spearheaded battles against […]
Terming France a ‘slave’ country, Syrian regime returns French honor granted to Bashar al-Assad
DAMASCUS: Syria returned to France the prestigious Legion d’honneur it gave to President Bashar al-Assad, saying Thursday he would not wear the award of a “slave” to America. Assad was decorated with the Legion’s highest rank of Grand Croix, or Great Cross, by former president Jacques Chirac in 2001, shortly after taking power following the […]
Pakistani celebrities on the genocide in Syria
In the wake of a UN demand for a ceasefire to end of one the most ferocious assaults of Syria’s civil war, fresh regime air strikes, and heavy bombing raids still shook a rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Sunday. A week ago, President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched a major bombing campaign against the enclave on the […]