Tag: Syria
Britain imposes new sanctions on 6 members of Syrian regime
LONDON — Britain said Monday it was imposing new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including asset freezes and travel bans on the Syrian dictator’s...
Russian FM discusses Middle Eastern affairs with Hezbollah
BEIRUT — Russia’s foreign minister discussed the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East on Monday with a delegation from the militant Hezbollah group,...
Syrians in rebel-held Idlib mark 10 years since uprising
BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrians in the last opposition-held area of the country protested Monday, marking 10 years since the start of a popular...
UN says international diplomacy crucial to end Syria’s war
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Monday that international diplomacy is crucial to end Syria’s 10-year war and it’s important...
Call me? US-Turkey reset faces long list of hurdles
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has toned down his anti-Western and anti-US rhetoric in an apparent effort to reset the rocky...
For Syrians, a decade of displacement with no end in sight
BAR ELIAS, Lebanon — Mohammed Zakaria has lived in a plastic tent in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for almost as long as war has...
UN chief: Syria in `living nightmare’ after 10 years of war
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that Syria faces “a living nightmare” 10 years after peaceful demonstrations were violently suppressed setting the...
Sweden sentences woman for taking child to IS area in Syria
STOCKHOLM — A southern Swedish court on Monday sentenced a woman to three years in prison for taking her 2-year-old son to Syria in...
Israeli woman charged after returning from Syria
JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman who crossed illegally into neighboring Syria and was returned in a Russian-mediated deal last month was charged in an...
Doctors Without Borders staffer killed in north Syria camp
BEIRUT — The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday a staff member was killed and three were injured in separate incidents last...