Iraq and Syria discuss tackling cross-border drug trade
Baghdad (Reuters) – Iraq and Syria’s foreign ministers discussed ways to help end drug trafficking across their joint border at
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Restoration lags for Syria’s famed Roman ruins at Palmyra and other war-battered historic sites
Associated Press Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, has begun restoring Palmyra’s triumphal arch, the largest-scale project
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Palestinian militant group in Syria holds funeral for 5 killed in mysterious blast
Damascus (AP) — A Syria-backed Palestinian militant group Thursday held a funeral for five fighters who died in a blast
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UN: Staggering 15.3 million Syrians, nearly 70% of population, need aid
United Nations (AP) — For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree
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Teenagers from Islamic State families undergo rehabilitation in Syria, but future still uncertain
Associated Press The camp holds about 51,000 people, the vast majority women and children, including the wives, widows and other
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Syria says Israeli missiles target sites near Damascus
Amman (Reuters) – Syrian army air defences on Sunday confronted an Israeli missile strike on the outskirts of the Syrian
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Facing pushback from Lebanese officials, UN walks back plan to give aid to Syrian refugees in USD
Beirut (AP) — The United Nations announced Saturday that it will suspend a plan to begin making aid payments to
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Israel says it retaliated against shots fired from Syria at military drone
Jerusalem (Reuters) – Israel retaliated against shots from fired Syria at a surveillance drone, the Israeli military said in a
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Syria’s Assad wins warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation
Jeddah (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from
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Tunisian leader calls meeting with Syria’s Assad ‘historic,’ buries memories of Arab Spring
Jeddah (AP) — Smiles, a handshake and what Tunisian President Kais Saied called a “historic meeting” with the long-ostracized Syrian
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