By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Abazeed discussed his country's financial position and potential sanctions relief in his first meeting with European Union officials on Wednesday since Islamist rebels ousted the Assad regime last year.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) on Wednesday held a meeting in Damascus with the Swedish embassy to discuss the situation in northeast Syria (Rojava), including ongoing Turkish attacks,
Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. “If I had asked about a (certain) book just two months ago,
For exiled Syrians, this is their Berlin Wall moment—the doors to a homeland they thought they’d never see again suddenly swinging open. The heady days following December 8th and the fall of
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Tuesday met with the Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC) for the second time in a month. Both sides agreed to send a joint committee to Damascus to discuss the future of Kurds in new Syria,
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa met on Tuesday Ahmed Al-Sharaa, head of the new Syrian administration, in Damascus. Mustafa “conveyed the greetings of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people to the leadership and people of Syria,
Vice President Vance speaks on Helene recovery in Damascus
Vice President JD Vance will return to Washington County on Monday to review progress in the town of Damascus after the devastating September flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Helene. "The American people should expect more of their government," Vance said in an interview broadcast Sunday on the CBS program "Face the Nation."
As a result of a regime change in Syria, Turkish Airlines has resumed service to Damascus, the capital of Syria. The carrier's new service will assist some of the over 4 million Syrian refugees that fled to Turkey following the outbreak of the nation's civil war in 2011.
By bnm Gulf bureau Syria's Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection outlined the country's transition towards a competitive free market economy during an economic forum held at the Damascus Chamber of Commerce on January 29,
Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Abazeed met with Germany’s temporary representative in Syria Bjorn Gehrmann on Wednesday, in the first such meeting of a European Union official since Islamist rebels seized power from the Assad regime last year.