‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...
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The saddest journey home: Bodies of journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik are flown to Damascus
Red Cross has taken bodies of Colvin and Ochlik to embassies in Damascus Veteran war journalist Colvin was killed during shelling in Homs last week ...
Islamic State members held for years in a Syria prison say they know nothing of the world
A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...
Middle East latest: Hamas says 3 Israeli hostages will be freed on Saturday as planned
The fragile ceasefire has mostly held since it started on Jan. 19. During the first phase of the ceasefire, Hamas has committed to freeing a total of 33 hostages captured in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack ...
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Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
In June 2012, the Red Cross officially declared that Syria was in a state of civil war, after the failure of an April-May 2012 United Nations-mediated ceasefire. Assad on the ropes, Timber ...
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Syria and allies deny aid convoy bombing
SYRIA and Russia denied yesterday that their air forces bombed a Red Cross aid convoy in western Aleppo province on Monday night. United Nations officials said 20 civilians and one Syrian Red Crescent ...
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Kuwait's 17th aid plane arrives Syria
Kuwait's official institutions coordinates with the Syrian Red Cross through the Kuwaiti air bridge to receive the essential aids. More aid planes will be departed from Kuwait to Syria through the air ...