Landmine blast kills two SDF fighters in eastern Syria

2025-10-20T20:53:27+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News - Deir ez-Zor Two fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed and three others injured on Monday when a landmine exploded in the village of al-Hissan, in the...

Here is how Qatar Foundation alumni are helping to shape tomorrow

Tribune News Network Doha While graduates are usually busy exploring new opportunities and next steps, some still find ways to give back – carving time out of busy lives to contribute to their communities and support others along the way. It’s a...

Immigration judge rules elderly Syrian man can come to UK as he’s 'desperately lonely'

An immigration judge has ruled that an 87-year-old man from Syria can live in Britain as he’s "desperately lonely”. Jabra Yazbek has been granted the right to live in the UK as his essential care needs were not being met in his home country, and...

Barrack: Syria is the missing piece of peace in the Middle East

U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack said Syria remains the “missing piece of peace” in the Middle East, even though the Gaza agreement marks a turning point in modern regional diplomacy, with world leaders gathering in Egypt to halt the...

Barrack pushes US agenda: Disarm Hezbollah, rebrand Syria policy

Tom Barrack calls on Washington to lift sanctions on Syria and pressure Lebanon to disarm its Resistance, framing US meddling as “peace". US Ambassador Tom Barrack has called for the repeal of US sanctions on Syria and for the disarmament of...

KFAED and UNHCR sign $5.7m deal to boost Sudan, Chad aid

Minister of Foreign Affairs and KFAED Chairman Abdullah Al-Yahya and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi after the signing. KUWAIT CITY, Oct 26: Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed two grant agreements Sunday with...

Exclusive: Syria’s Rojava Honors the Martyrs Killed by ISIS — The List of Men and Women Keeps Growing

Headstones at the Cemetery of the Martyrs of ISIS in Qamishli, Rojava, Syria. Photo by Antonio Graceffo. According to the photo and text on his headstone, S. Warson was only twenty-one when he was killed by ISIS. The image shows a proud young man...

The Silent War of Syria’s Construction Workers

The suburbs of Damascus lie in ruins, and daily life unfolds amid dust, buildings reduced to rubble, and mountains of uncollected refuse. The collapse of the Al‑Assad regime pushed many Syrians to return to areas that had previously been off...

Health Works Leaders Coalition Launched To Promote Health System Investments And Spur Economic Growth, Job Creation

The World Bank Group, the Government of Japan, and the World Health Organization officially launched the Health Works Leaders Coalition . This global alliance brings together health and finance ministers, philanthropic organizations, business...

HIGH PROFILE: Dr. Issam Makhoul transitions to CARTI as director of medical research

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Dr. Issam "Sam" Makhoul's medical career has taken him from Lattakia, Syria; to Paris; then to Little Rock; by way of Hershey, Pa. His latest career move, in...

Lebanese Court Orders Release Of Gaddafi Son Who Was Abducted From Syria

Hannibal Gaddafi as seen in footage leaked from his cell in Lebanon in 2024. (X) A judge in Lebanon has ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on a bail of $11 million and a travel ban....

Israeli Scientists Discover Way to Speed Up Nerve Signals, Offering Hope for Treating Brain Diseases

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have uncovered a biological process that increases the production of myelin—the fatty substance that coats nerve fibers and allows electrical signals to move quickly and efficiently through the nervous system....

Syrian authorities arrest cousin of Assad suspected of robbing petrol stations

Syrian security forces have arrested a distant cousin of former president Bashar Al Assad who specialised in armed robbery and abduction, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. Numair Al Assad, brother of former militia leader Waseem Al...

Drivers Alert: Gulf Street Lanes Closed for 20 Days, Damascus Street Reopens

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 20: The General Traffic Department has announced a temporary closure of the left and center lanes on Arabian Gulf Street for motorists traveling from the Engineers Association intersection towards the Amiri Hospital intersection....

Syria’s interim president visits Putin

By Catherine Nicholls, Anna Chernova and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the first face-to-face contact the pair have had....

More Bedouin families leave Syria’s Suweida province

Bedouin families are being evacuated after violence in Suweida earlier this year [Getty] Dozens of Bedouin families left Syria’s southern Suweida province on Sunday, while two aid convoys arrived and a main water well was restored to service, in...

Empress Emerita Michiko turns 91 after year of health concerns

Empress Emerita Michiko, who spent much of the past year recovering from a fractured right femur while supporting her husband, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, turned 91 on Oct. 20. According to the Imperial Household Agency, Michiko has continued a...

MENA’s innovation map expands as Syria debuts, Palestine rises at GITEX 2025

At this year’s GITEX Global, the region’s largest technology exhibition, the spotlight quietly shifted to two pavilions that told a different kind of story. At Expand North Star, the startup-focused arm of GITEX held at Dubai Harbour, Syria made...

From Warnings to Deportation: Europe’s New Equation for Syrian Refugees

The debate over Syrian refugees in Europe is no longer about compassion or protection—it is about distribution of risk. Under new bureaucratic terms like “absorptive capacity” and “safe return,” Europe is normalizing a grim reality it once vowed...

The world must not ignore Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals

Palestinians are inspecting the damage at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. (AFP/File Photo) World leaders’ outrage over Israel’s conduct in its war with Gaza is justified: the Israeli government has repeatedly violated international humanitarian law,...