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March 5, 2020 More than 5 years ago. An explosion is seen during Russian airstrikes on a village in the Idlib province of Syria on Thursday. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images) ...
In 2020, the pandemic and intermittent lockdowns exacerbated economic crises in Jordan and Lebanon, ... New research suggests this pressure won’t convince Syria’s 5.5 million refugees to return.
As of July 2020, about 600 U.S. troops remain in Syria, where they continue to support local partner force operations against Islamic State remnants.
ANKARA . Syria witnessed major developments in 2020, but chief among them were displacement in Idlib due to intensified attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Turkey's Operation Spring Shield.
Further evidence is emerging of rebels from Syria being recruited to fight as mercenaries in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Their saga shows America’s deep malaise about the civil war in Syria and the resulting refugee crisis. Will anything change in 2020?
Aid groups said that the UN gave US$300 million in 2020 for aid to northwest Syria, including $190 million under the multi-donor Syria Cross-Border Humanitarian Fund (SCHF), which funded 204 projects.
Syria was reclassified as a low-income country in 2018 because of the massive decline in its gross national income. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, causing more economic pain and ...
The story of Assad's survival – and Syria's disintegration – is part personal inhumanity, part international indifference. Five years ago, Assad admitted in a televised address that his army ...
An investigative team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons accused the Syrian government of launching three chemical attacks on one village in 2017. By Ben Hubbard BEIRUT ...
On October 26, 2020, the head of Huboob announced that there is enough wheat for all bakeries across government-held Syria to produce bread to the extent of their capacities.