Coordinated with Iran, the deployment expanded a Russian military presence dating to the Cold War, when the Soviet Union established a naval base at the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus.
War is etched into this urban landscape ... You see it on Aleppo's skyline: the tallest building is now lined with an elongated Syrian flag and the president's image. You hear it in the schools ...
Homs was once called the "capital of the revolution" by peaceful protesters who first took to the streets in the spring of 2011 to call for change, before it turned into all-out war. Baraa and her ...
"We escape from war and we will get back to Syria to rebuild it and to raise our flag very high," he said. Darweesh understands change will not happen overnight, and it might take several years.
France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria ... flag over the French embassy there 12 years after cutting ties with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad amid the country’s ...
despite the cold weather. Muhammed Zin, 28, who fled Damascus in 2016, expressed relief. “Assad was shooting us, killing us. I will return to Syria now. Thank God, the war is over,” he told ...