Blinken meets Erdogan as forces backed by US, Turkey clash in Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing stability in Syria: clashes in the north of the ...
US security adviser Sullivan says Israel is acting in Syria for its own defence
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel’s operations in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, saying on Thursday it had a right to defend itself ...
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After Assad’s ouster, Syrian rebel leader puts his stamp on the state
Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria’s state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, deploying police, installing an interim ...
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Refugees return to Syria as caretaker prime minister appointed
Refugees from Syria’s long civil war were making their way home on Wednesday, as a new interim prime minister said he had been appointed with the backing of the ...
Syria to need all the help it can get, says Christodoulides
The crisis in Syria has been included in the European Council agenda at the request of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday, pointing out that the country’s new ...
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Israeli denies its forces have gone past Syria buffer zone
Israel denied on Tuesday that its forces had penetrated into Syrian territory beyond the buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, after Syrian sources said the incursion had extended to ...
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Israel pounds Syrian army bases, denies deeper incursion
Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a ...
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Syria’s 12-day revolution: Assad overthrown, world braces for the unknown
The lightning overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad left Syrians, countries in the region and world powers nervous on Tuesday about what comes next as the rebel alliance took its first ...
Qatar opens contacts with Syria’s HTS group, source says
Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the developments told Reuters, as regional states race to open contact with ...
Israel says it will destroy Syria’s heavy strategic weaponry
Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a “limited” troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any ...
European countries put Syrian asylum bids on hold after Assad’s fall
By Riham AlkousaaEuropean countries were putting asylum applications from Syrians on hold until further notice on Monday after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad.
The decision, which affects tens of ...
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With Assad ousted, a new era starts in Syria as the world watches
Damascus stirred back to life on Monday at the start of a hopeful but uncertain era after rebels seized the Syrian capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 ...
Cyprus protest over attacks on Kurds in northern Syria
Kurdish residents of Cyprus staged a protest march on Monday from Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square to the US embassy to request Washington step in to stop attacks on Kurds in ...
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How Syria rebels’ stars aligned for Assad’s ouster
After 13 years of civil war, Syria’s opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power when, about six months ago, they communicated to Turkey ...
Cyprus calls for stability in Syria, says ‘premature’ to talk about migrants
President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday called for an orderly political transition in Syria in the wake of rebels seizing Damascus and ousting President Bashar al-Assad after 13 years of civil war ...
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Syrians rally in Cyprus after Assad toppled
Peaceful rallies were held by Syrians in Cyprus on Sunday after rebels announced the seizure of Damascus and the toppling of President Assad.
In Nicosia Syrians gathered on the walls ...
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Syrian rebels topple President Assad, difficult times lie ahead
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari
Syrian rebels declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family’...
Iraq considers Syria intervention as rebels advance
Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim ruling parties and armed groups are weighing the pros and cons of armed intervention in Syria, viewing as a grave threat the advance of Sunni Islamist ...
Police ‘ready’ for ‘mujahideen’ protest in Limassol
The police on Friday declared that they are “ready to maintain security and order” ahead of a planned protest on Sunday in support of the “mujahideen fighting in Idlib and ...
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Iran, Hezbollah aim to bolster Assad as rebels bear down on Homs
Iran will send missiles, drones and more advisers to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday as rebel forces advanced on the central city of Homs and Kurds seized ...
Christodoulides and UAE President speak over Syria
President Nikos Christodoulides and his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayen Al Nahyan on Friday held a telephone call in which they both agreed on the ...
Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian foreign ministers to meet on Friday, Iraqi state media says
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein will meet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to discuss the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state news agency said on Thursday.
The Friday ...
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Syrian rebels capture key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad
Syrian rebels captured the key city of Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President ...
Cypriots warned to avoid all travel to Syria
The foreign ministry on Tuesday warned Cypriot citizens to “avoid all travel” to Syria as the civil war in the country reignites.
The ministry said it is “closely monitoring the ...