Posts Tagged: syria
Remnants of Assad’s Chemical Weapons Program Recovered, Syrian Official Says
Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during...
Syria Arrests Team of Hezbollah Assassins Trained to Kill Senior Government Officials
Syria has stopped a Hezbollah terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate senior government officials, according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. An investigation "revealed that the...
Main Suspect in Syria’s Tadamon Massacre Arrested, Ministry Says
Syria's Interior Ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288...
Dutch Prosecutors Seek 30-Year Sentence for Alleged Syrian Torturer Who Backed Assad
Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Wednesday demanded a 30-year prison sentence for a Syrian man accused of torturing and raping prisoners when he was a member of a militia that backed the...
Syria Leads World in Improving Freedom, Report Says, Amid Concerns Over Regime’s Jihadist Links
The same week that an influential survey of global freedom named Syria as the most improved country in the world, Syrian authorities announced a crackdown...
Syria Unveils Plan to Eliminate Assad’s Chemical Weapons
Syria on Wednesday launched a plan supported by Washington to rid the Middle Eastern country of legacy chemical weapons that were used against its people by forces under ousted leader Bashar...
Islamic State Claims Two Attacks on Syrian Army, Announces ‘New Phase’ of Operations
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for two attacks targeting Syrian army personnel in northern and eastern Syria, as the terrorist group signaled what it described as...
US Pulls Out of Strategic Syria Base and Hands It Over to Damascus
The US military said it completed a withdrawal from a strategic base in Syria on Thursday, handing it over to Syrian forces, in the latest sign of strengthening US-Syrian ties that...
Syrian Government, Kurds Agree to Integration Deal, US Hails ‘Historic Milestone’
The Syrian government and Kurdish forces declared a ceasefire deal on Friday that sets out a phased integration of Kurdish fighters into the state, averting a potentially bloody battle and drawing US...
Syria’s Internal Unrest Is Spurred by Turkish Ambitions
“The Syrian Democratic Forces’ [SDF] insistence on protecting what it has at all costs is the biggest obstacle to achieving peace and stability in Syria.”...
Syria Says It Hopes to Hold New Talks With Kurdish Forces as Western States Urge Adherence to Ceasefire
The Syrian government hopes to hold a new round of talks with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, possibly later on Tuesday, to spell out how the force would merge into the central state, a senior Syrian...
Iraq Says It Will Prosecute Islamic State Detainees Sent From Syria
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said on Thursday it would begin legal proceedings against Islamic State detainees transferred from Syria, after the rapid collapse of Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria...
US Military Starts Transferring Islamic State Detainees From Syria to Iraq
The US military said on Wednesday that its forces have transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq. The move comes after the rapid collapse of the Kurdish-led Syrian...
Syria Accuses Kurds of Breaking Truce in Threat to Chances of Deal
Syria's government said a drone strike by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces killed seven of its soldiers on Wednesday, though the SDF denied this, in an...
