Independent news aggregation
Mass grave uncovered in Kafraa, eastern Hama The Internal Security Command in Hama Governorate reported on Saturday that it discovered a mass grave in the village of Kafraa in the eastern Hama countr...
Case overview Batoul Suleiman Alloush, a 21-year-old Alawite medical student who survived deadly sectarian attacks in Baniyas, has left her family and university and begun wearing a full chador. Syria...
Update on Eva M. Michelmann German journalist Eva M. Michelmann has been released and returned to Germany after being detained in Syria earlier this year, her lawyer Roland Meister said. Her brother A...
Muscat talks advance diplomacy Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman met in Muscat with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani to review progress in...
Lebanon transferred 128 Syrian prisoners to Damascus on Wednesday to serve the remainder of their sentences, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The move is the second handover under a Febr...
Key developments Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated on Tuesday that negotiations remain the most appropriate route to protect Lebanon’s national interests, while stressing an uncompromising co...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on June 23 that Iran has accepted the highest level of nuclear inspections for the indefinite future and has committed to keeping the Strait of Hormuz o...
US President Donald Trump told Fox News he is "disappointed" that Israel has not been able to decisively defeat Hezbollah, criticizing the Israeli campaign in Lebanon for relying on heavy des...
Since the fall of the Assad government on December 8, 2024, the Sunni Islamist administration of President Ahmed al-Sharaa has moved to consolidate control, most notably by dismantling the K...
German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann, who vanished in northeastern Syria during a government offensive in January, was released and returned to Germany on Friday, her lawyer Roland Meister...
Arrest and reactions Hassan Akkad, a Syrian content creator and activist, was reportedly detained Wednesday evening from a restaurant in the Al-Malki neighborhood of Damascus. Authorities have not is...
Syria faces a fragile transition as long-suppressed demands for justice re-emerge across society. Analysts warn that without credible institutions to investigate and prosecute war crimes, enf...
Mezzeh 86 demonstration, June 16 On June 16 residents staged a demonstration at the entrance to the Mezzeh 86 neighborhood in Damascus that began near the area and concentrated at a main gate. Protes...
Amichai Chikli, a far-right minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, told radio interviewers this week that Israel “will be at...
Families in northeastern Syria say recruitment of minors by the Revolutionary Youth Movement and SDF-linked units continues even after a January integration agreement with Damascus. Two girls, Naziha...
Undercover persona unmasked in Tadamon investigation An Amsterdam-based Syrian academic, Annsar Shahoud, adopted an online identity called 'Anna' to coax an admission from an alleged participant in t...
Key developments A cache of roughly 19 gigabytes of documents attributed to Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates was published on a Telegram channel, releasing scanned files, diplomatic...
In unusually candid remarks, US President Donald Trump acknowledged that Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon has caused significant civilian deaths and criticized its methods, sayi...
Joint operations dismantle international smuggling cell On June 14, Syria’s Interior Ministry said it carried out simultaneous raids, in coordination with Iraq’s General Directorate of Narcotics and P...
