Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s high official for releasing Individuals held abroad, on Friday arrived in Damascus, Syria, for a high-risk mission: making the primary recognized face-to-face contact with the caretaker authorities and asking for assist discovering lacking American journalist Austin Tice. Tice was kidnapped in Syria 12 years in the past in the course…
Pentagon says the extra forces have been in Syria for ‘some time’, earlier than fall of President Bashar al-Assad, although they weren’t publicly disclosed. After years of telling the general public that the US has about 900 troops in Syria, the Pentagon has revealed there are roughly 2,000 troopers there — double the earlier estimate….
Drug commerce in Syria allegedly tied to Assad regime’s monetary beneficial properties – CBS Information Watch CBS Information Imtiaz Tyab excursions a Syrian facility linked to the manufacturing of a avenue drug in style within the Center East. The operation allegedly funded the exiled dictator’s regime, including to the legacy of ache left behind. Be…
Damascus — In a distant nook exterior Damascus, Syria, a now deserted potato chip manufacturing unit reveals one of many many darkish however open secrets and techniques of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS Information crew gained entry to the location, discovering a storeroom lined with hydrochloric acid and acetic acid on an…
Excessive within the mountains of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Majdal Shams is residence to members of one of many Center East’s most insular non secular communities: the Druze. With its roots in tenth century Ismailism, a department of Shia Islam, the roughly one million-strong minority is unfold throughout Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Golan Heights….
The tensions which were simmering within the Center East for the reason that begin of the Israel-Gaza battle in 2023 took one other drastic flip after the latest coup in Syria that led to the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Following the disaster in Syria, Jordan’s King Abdullah, thought of a descendant of the Prophet…
Syria’s new rulers stepped up engagement on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) with nations that deemed ousted President Bashar al-Assad a pariah, with the French flag raised on the embassy for the primary time in over a decade. Mr. Assad fled Syria simply over every week in the past, as his forces deserted tanks and different…
Greater than 880,000 individuals have been displaced because the newest escalation of hostilities in Syria, UN humanitarians stated. United Nations accomplice organisations estimated that round 6 per cent of the displaced reside with at the very least one type of incapacity, the Xinhua information company reported. ‘Return actions stay dynamic, with companions recording greater than…
A mass grave exterior Damascus contained the our bodies of not less than 100,000 folks killed by the previous authorities of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, based on the pinnacle of a US-based Syrian advocacy organisation. Reuters information company quoted Mouaz Moustafa as saying that the positioning at al-Qutayfah 40km (25 miles) north of the Syrian…
Dec 17, 2024 08:25 AM IST HTS chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani introduced the disbandment of insurgent factions in Syria, with fighters built-in into the defence ministry The chief of the Islamist group that toppled Bashar al-Assad mentioned Monday that insurgent factions in war-torn Syria could be “disbanded” and their fighters positioned below the defence ministry,…
