Suwayda, southwest Syria - Government buses evacuated dozens of Bedouin families from Syria’s Suwayda province to rural Daraa on Monday, under a fragile ceasefire agreement brokered after a week of deadly clashes in the country’s south. According to Syria’s state...
Beirut, Lebanon - U.S. Special Envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, said on Monday that the Syrian government must “be held accountable” for the violence that erupted in Suwayda earlier this month. Speaking at a press conference in Beirut following his...
Suwayda, southwest Syria – A captured fighter from the EU-sanctioned Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade has revealed disturbing details about the recent armed assault on Suwayda, alleging orders to carry out sectarian killings and the involvement of hundreds of foreign fighters,...
Suwayda, Syria – Syrian activists have documented the disappearance of 80 Druze women and girls during the recent wave of armed clashes and unrest in Suwayda province, southern Syria, over the past week. The names of the missing individuals were...
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara received the final report on Sunday from the national investigative committee probing the deadly events that took place in Syria’s coastal region in March, the presidency announced. In a statement published on its...
Washington is increasingly playing the role of a decisive mediator in Syria, seeking on one hand to maintain a limited military presence that ensures Kurdish influence in the country’s northeast, and on the other hand, to block any regional arrangements...
As part of a series of often controversial remarks since his appointment as the U.S. envoy to Syria, Ambassador Thomas Barrack, currently based in Turkey, made notable statements in late May regarding the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement. He referenced the historic...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that “The rape and slaughter of innocent people which has and is still occuring must end.” urging the Syrian government to uphold a recently brokered ceasefire in Suwayda. "The...
International media outlets have revealed that secret meetings were held between Syrian and Israeli officials in Baku, Azerbaijan, with Turkish participation, marking a potentially game-changing shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics after years of overt hostility between Damascus and Tel Aviv....
Amman, Jordan Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi and U.S. envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack in Amman, Jordan on Saturday to discuss the implementation of a ceasefire in southern Syria’s Suwayda province. According to...