News Syria Events: Iraq plans to launch pipelines to export oil through Jordan, Syria
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said in a press conference July 9 said that the government was considering export routes through Syrian and Jordanian territory, and added that Baghdad is ...
News Syria Events: Mardini — refugee from Syria rising fast after fleeing war
GWANGJU/SOUTH KOREA: Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, who almost drowned at sea fleeing her war-torn country four years ago, heaved a deep sigh after failing to set a personal best at the world swimming championships on Sunday.
News Syria Events: Turkish-US talks on northern Syria stall as S-400 crisis peaks
US envoy for Syria Jim Jeffrey tells the German Marshall Fund that a residual force of US troops will be staying in northeastern Syria for an "indeterminate time"; this decision appears to have been made in part to protect the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units from Turkey.
News Syria Events: Assad Or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfall
“No single event in the history of the Syrian conflict helped Islamist extremists justify their terror and message of hate more than the … attack and the way the international community handled its ...
News Syria Events: Syrian refugee crisis spurs Chaney Cowboys to action
Students paid $2 for tickets to the event, and all proceeds from the kite-flying campaign and related fundraising projects will be donated to Save the Children, specifically earmarked for aid to the ...
News Syria Events: 39 Malaysians detained in Syria want to come home - police
In October last year, the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) brought home a Malaysian woman and her two children, a boy and a girl, who were stranded in Syria, after her husband who was a member of the ...
News Syria Events: Russia, Syria, Premier League: Your Monday Briefing
During the last eight years of Syria’s civil war, the Syrian government is believed ... It’s the party of the year for the Wall Street set. Last year’s event saw the charity’s founder, Paul Tudor ...
News Syria Events: Syrian, gay refugee finds his freedom and voice
âI got arrested [at the airport in Syria] and ended up in prison for around six weeks. Then when they released me, I became persona non grata. I ended up being a refugee in Lebanon,â he said.
News Syria Events: A sidelined America limits already difficult options in Syria
Earlier this month, while President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spent an hour on the phone discussing North Korea aggressions and the conflict in Venezuela, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his Russian allies were barrel-bombing civilians in the Syrian province of Idlib.
News Syria Events: Descendants of Survivors: Syriac Christians Oppose a Turkish ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
The borderlands between Turkey and Syria are dotted with small Syriac Christian churches. Last fall, bullets penetrated the wall of a church in the village of Tel Jihan in northeastern Syria, just four-hundred-fifty meters from the Turkish border. Locals told me it was not an isolated incident.Syriac
News Syria Events: After surviving ISIS and a civil war, these Syrian women built a female-only village
(CNN) - Fatma Emin's life changed forever when her husband died in the Syrian war, killed by ISIS in a land mine attack. It triggered a series of events that would bring her to Jinwar, a village built ...
News Syria Events: ‘Immortal regiment’ march held in largest cities of Syria
"For us, living in Syria, the Victory Day holiday is especially ... the ‘Immortal Regiment’ march has officially become a nationwide event.
News Syria Events: Inaugural BorderLight Festival will bring shows and showpeople to Cleveland from Ireland, Syria, South Africa and elsewhere
BorderLight will offer 100 performances of 40 different productions at many venues by more than 100 artists from nine counties: Bolivia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, ...
News Syria Events: Koch affiliated veterans group urges Trump to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan
There will also be events organized across the country to raise awareness ... At the end of last year Trump ordered staff to execute the "full" and "rapid" withdrawal of US military from Syria. The ...
