A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his…
Watch: Celebrations on the streets of Syria as Trump says he will lift US sanctions US President Donald Trump has said he will lift sanctions on Syria, ahead of an expected meeting with its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. Trump has agreed to “say hello” to Syria’s interim president on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia as part of…
Syrian security forces are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians belonging to the Alawite minority group in continuing violence along the country’s coast, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said some 745 civilians had been killed in around 30 “massacres” targeting Alawites on Friday and Saturday….
Syrian security forces are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians belonging to the Alawite minority group in continuing violence along the country’s coast, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said some 745 civilians had been killed in around 30 “massacres” targeting Alawites on Friday and Saturday….
Hugh Bachega BBC Middle East correspondent•Beirut Getty Images In January, days after the first-month anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime in a lightning Islamist-led rebel offensive in Syria, a group of young men – some of them armed – were gathered, checking their phones in the nearly empty interior ministry headquarters in Damascus….
Syrian forces loyal to the new government in Damascus have engaged in heavy fighting with remnants of the ousted Assad regime in a coastal area in the country’s north-west. At least 13 soldiers have been killed in the clashes in Latakia province, close to a Russian-controlled airbase, according to state TV. A curfew has been…
Joel Gunter & Paul Kirby In Orebro and London Reuters Candles and flowers have been left outside the school in memory of the victims of Tuesday’s attack Syria’s embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro…
Nick Eardley & Matt Murphy BBC Verify PA Media The Royal Navy released images of the Sparta II (centre) as it moved through international waters in late December, before arriving in Syria Two Russian ships linked to its military have docked at the Kremlin’s naval base on the Syrian coast at Tartous, with experts suggesting…
