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Baghdad, Iraq - Iraq announced on Sunday it has repatriated 15,000 of its nationals from the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria as part of a broader effort to close the file on external displacement and reintegrate returnees into society. The...

Washington - The U.S. State Department on Thursday called for an immediate and transparent investigation into the killing of American citizen Hussam Saraya last week in Syria’s southern province of Sweida, where deadly clashes have recently erupted. State Department spokesperson...

PARIS - Germany will suspend support for the Syrian government unless it takes serious action to halt religious and ethnic abuses, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday during a joint press conference in Paris with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot....

Beirut, Lebanon - The Lebanese Army announced on Saturday that it had detained 165 Syrian refugees over two days for residing illegally.  In a statement posted on X, the army said its units arrested 109 refugees in the Zahraani area...

Damascus, Syria - Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on Saturday for a working visit leading an official government delegation. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Al-Sharaa met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at...

A group of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) destroyed their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony near the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The move is part of an announced shift by the group away...

Ankara, Turkey - Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), announced on Wednesday what he described as the end of the group’s armed struggle against the Turkish state, urging a complete transition to political engagement. In...

Washington - The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Saturday that it has earmarked $130 million from its 2026 budget to support the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Free Syrian Army. In a statement published on its website, the...

Paris - French prosecutors on Friday called for upholding an arrest warrant against Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, accusing him of complicity in crimes against humanity. During a hearing before France’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest judicial authority, Prosecutor...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Malaysia’s Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Friday that it has dismantled a network accused of funding ISIS operations in Syria and Bangladesh, according to the Malaysian National News Agency. Inspector-General of Police Muhd Khaled Ismail...