Etiket: Syria
Six children of ex-IS fighters repatriated from Syria are expected in Montreal
They experienced the unspeakable, in unspeakable conditions. Detained for several years in a camp in Syria, where certain ex-combatants of the Islamic State (IS) armed group and members of their…
Repatriation of six children from Syria to Canada
Six children, but not their Canadian mother, will be repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria. Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who represents the mother, said Global Affairs Canada plans…
Syria | 20 dead in clashes in the south after a deadly explosion
(Beirut) At least 20 people were killed on Sunday when armed individuals stormed a town in the southern province of Daraa in Syria, an NGO announced, the day after the…
Syria | 17 dead in clashes in the south after deadly explosion
(Beirut) At least 17 people were killed Sunday in clashes between rival groups in the southern province of Deraa in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced, the…
Syria | Bikers improve their image by delivering free meals during Ramadan
(Damascus) Every evening during the month of Ramadan, before breaking the fast, bikers crisscross the streets of Damascus to deliver meals to the needy, breaking the stereotypes attached to two-wheel…
Syria | Historic jihadist leader killed in attack
(Beirut) One of the historic jihadist leaders of Syria’s last rebel bastion, Abu Maria al-Qahtani, co-founder of the Al-Nusra Front, was killed in a suicide attack, his organization and the…
Strikes in Syria | Iran’s supreme leader says Israel ‘will be slapped’
(Tehran) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Israel would be “slapped” after airstrikes on the consular annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, in which Seven…
Syria: Israeli raid on Iranian embassy in Damascus leaves 11 dead
The death toll from Monday’s strikes on an annex building of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, attributed to Israel, rose to 11 dead, according to a new report from the…
Syria | Israeli raid on Iranian embassy annex leaves eight dead
(Damascus) A raid blamed on Israel targeted an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday, killing eight people according to an NGO, including at least five members of…
Eight dead in strike attributed to Israel near Iranian embassy in Syria
An annex to the embassy was razed, according to an AFP correspondent in Damascus, the Syrian capital. Published on 04/01/2024 5:28 p.m. Update on 04/01/2024 7:39 p.m. Reading time: 1…
Eight dead in strike attributed to Israel near Iranian embassy in Syria
An annex to the embassy was razed, according to an AFP correspondent in Damascus, the Syrian capital. Published on 04/01/2024 5:28 p.m. Update on 01/04/2024 18:17 Reading time: 1 min…
Syria | Car bomb explodes in market, killing at least eight
(Beirut) A car bomb exploded early Sunday morning in a market in a town in northern Syria held by pro-Turkish forces, killing at least eight people and injuring more than…
In Syria, soldiers are killed in an Israeli strike near Aleppo
At least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike which targeted the Aleppo region in northern Syria at dawn on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH)…
Syria | At least 36 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strike
(Beirut) At least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike which targeted the Aleppo region, in northern Syria, at dawn on Friday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human…
Four Canadians detained in Syria implore the Supreme Court to review their request
(Ottawa) Four Canadians detained in Syria are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to reconsider their request for a hearing that could allow them to be released from Syrian jails.…
for the first time, grandparents of French children of jihadists were able to visit them in a camp in Syria
These representatives of the United Families Collective, the association of relatives of French people who left to join Daesh, were able to visit their grandchildren detained in northeast Syria by…
Syria, a dislocated country
After 12 years of civil war, Syria finds itself fragmented: the government of Bashar al-Assad managed to control nearly 60% of its territory after it was saved by Russian military…
Four dead, including civilians, in Israeli strikes on Syria
Israeli strikes on the Homs region, in central Syria, left four dead, including civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), with the Syrian Defense Ministry citing an…
the US response seen from Syria, Iraq and Russia
Washington accuses pro-Iranian groups of being behind the deadly attack against one of its bases at the end of January, and carries out retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria. A…
The orphans of the earthquake in northern Syria, one year later
Found by miracle under the rubble of a building destroyed by the deadly earthquake of February 6, 2023 in north-west Syria, little Afraa blows out her first candle, taken in…