Etiket: Syria
Iraq and Syria | Erdogan announces imminent end of operation against PKK Kurds
(Istanbul) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday the imminent end of the Turkish armed forces’ “Operation Claw-Lock” in northern Iraq and Syria, saying he had “locked in” the…
Syria | Israeli strike on Hezbollah vehicle kills two
(Beirut) Two people were killed Tuesday in an Israeli strike targeting a Hezbollah vehicle in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, with a source close to the powerful…
Crimes against humanity in Syria | Suspects arrested in Germany and Sweden
(Berlin) German and Swedish authorities have arrested eight people suspected of crimes against humanity on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime, continuing efforts to bring justice to victims of the…
Chemical attacks in Syria | French prosecutor general challenges arrest warrant for Assad
(Paris) The Paris Court of Appeal’s general prosecutor told AFP on Tuesday that it had referred the matter to the Court of Cassation regarding the French arrest warrant for Bashar…
Two dead in Israeli strike in Syria
(Damascus) Two people were killed and a soldier injured in an Israeli strike Wednesday on positions in southern Syria, the official Sana agency announced, citing a military source, with an…
victims of chemical attacks in Syria hope that the French arrest warrant against Bashar Al-Assad will be maintained
This night of August 21, 2013, Lubna Alkanawati sleeps with the windows open. The heat is stifling in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb east of Damascus, the Syrian capital. In a…
victims of chemical attacks in Syria hope that the French arrest warrant against Bashar Al-Assad will be maintained
This night of August 21, 2013, Lubna Alkanawati sleeps with the windows open. The heat is stifling in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb east of Damascus, the Syrian capital. In a…
Syria | At least 12 pro-regime fighters killed in Israeli raid
(Beirut) At least 12 pro-regime fighters were killed overnight from Sunday to Monday by an Israeli strike targeting a factory in a town near Aleppo, in northern Syria, an NGO…
Israeli strikes in Syria | A little girl and three Hezbollah fighters are killed
(Beirut) Two Israeli strikes targeted a coastal town and central Syria at war on Wednesday evening, killing a little girl according to official Syrian media, and three Syrian fighters from…
Suspected jihadist stuck in Syria | Mother goes on hunger strike
(Ottawa) The mother of Jack Letts, also known as “Jihadi Jack,” began a hunger strike on Tuesday. Sally Lane has set up in front of the building which houses the…
The six children of a Quebec mother are repatriated from a detention camp in Syria
The Ministry of Global Affairs says the six children of a Quebec mother have been repatriated to Canada from their detention camp in northeast Syria. The ministry says the focus…
The six children of a Quebec mother are repatriated from a detention camp in Syria
(Ottawa) The Ministry of Global Affairs says the six children of a Quebec mother have been repatriated to Canada from their detention camp in northeast Syria. Published at 1:25 p.m.…
Syria | The United States repatriates around twenty Westerners from jihadist camps
(Washington) The United States announced Tuesday that it had repatriated 11 Americans, including five minors, from jihadist prison camps in northeast Syria, and contributed to the evacuation of around ten…
“War in mind. On the front from Syria to Ukraine”, anonymous fighters
From the first minutes of the interview, Romain Huët removes any ambiguity: even if he has often been interested in themes linked to violence, he is not fascinated by war.…
Syria | US reveals it killed civilian instead of targeted jihadist
(Washington) A U.S. strike in Syria last year killed a civilian wrongly identified as an al-Qaeda leader, the U.S. Middle East Military Command (Centcom) revealed Thursday. Posted at 2:53 p.m.…
a French ghost from Syria indicted for crimes against humanity
Sonia M., 34, is the ex-wife of a senior Daesh officer, returning from Syria, in detention in France for four years. She is suspected of having reduced a 16-year-old Yazidi…
Assad says Syria had ‘meetings’ with US
(Damascus) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday that Syria had held meetings “from time to time” with Washington, as the country seeks to emerge from its…
Rockets fired from Iraq towards coalition base in Syria
(Baghdad) Rockets were launched Sunday evening from northern Iraq towards a base of the international anti-jihadist coalition in neighboring Syria, announced Iraqi security forces who say they found and set…
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…