The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Israel Asked To Conduct Airstrikes Against ISIS, Al-Qaeda Continues To Pose Threats

Former IDF Chief reveals Egypt sought Israeli airstrikes against ISIS; Al-Qaeda and ISIS pose ongoing threats in Middle East

Zenger · Jun 30, 2023

Families of tens of thousands missing in Syria draw some hope from new UN push to find loved ones

The families of some of the tens of thousands of people missing in Syria are drawing some hope from a new U.N. push to find their loved ones

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2023

He took one of the deadliest migrant routes, hoping to save his cancer-stricken son

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.

WEKU · Jun 30, 2023

What future awaits Russia’s Wagner army and its boss, Prigozhin?

Observers say Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘doomed’ after turning on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Al Jazeera · Jun 28, 2023

Iraqi police seize 250,000 Captagon pills at school building

Syria has pledged to fight drug smuggling in talks with Arab neighbours, but the stimulant keeps moving across region.

Al Jazeera · Jun 28, 2023

'It looks like the end of the world': Russia bombards rebel zones in Syria

Intense air strikes by Russia, an ally of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, have targeted the rebel-held Idlib region in northwestern Syria since June 20. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), air strikes on June 25 killed at least 13 people, including children, and one attack hit a…

France 24 · Jun 28, 2023

‘How would you survive?’: Desperation grows in Iraq water crisis

Parched communities, once displaced by the ravages of ISIL, can barely survive the decimation of their water supplies.

Al Jazeera · Jun 28, 2023

Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

A U.N. report says armed groups across Syria are recruiting children into their ranks in growing numbers, even as fighting is subsiding

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023

‘We fear leaving the house’: Lebanon and Turkey step up deportations of Syrian refugees

Countries that once welcomed Syrians fleeing the civil war are now forcing them to return as Assad is feted by the Arab world

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023

How music therapy can help rebuild the lives of refugees

Over the past 20 years, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide due to conflict has reached a figure in excess of 90 million. This has more than doubled since the early 1990s, a time period labelled “the decade of displacement” by the United Nations Refugee Agency.…

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2023