Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met in Damascus on Saturday with a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of ...

A map showing all the landmine and explosive accidents across Syria since the fall of Assad (Picture: The Halo Trust) Demining teams in Luf village, Saraqib district of Idlib Governorate, dealing with ...

The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ...

The statement called the attack, which killed top commander Abu Omar Saraqib, also known as Abu Hajer al-Homsi, a betrayal and an “act of war.” The previous ceasefire in February broke down as Western ...

By 2019, three of the four zones were controlled by the regime. A man walks past the rubble of a war-damaged building in Saraqib, on the outskirts of Idlib, northern Syria, on Jan. 13, 2025.

In Saraqib, the buildings are now just concrete skeletons, the signs of life long since stripped away. After capturing the town, Assad’s forces looted it, taking anything that could be reused or ...

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Israel bombed Syrian army positions south of Aleppo on Thursday, the latest such strikes since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor and local residents said.

Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported earlier on Monday that opposition forces captured Nayrab, a village west of the strategically important area town of Saraqib, and it was now completely ...

The Syrian army retaliated, striking extremists and capturing the town of Saraqib near Idlib on February 5. In the morning of February 11, the Syrian opposition supported by Turkey launched mass ...

On Dec. 20, the Assad regime and its allies launched a military campaign mainly in the cities of Maarat Al-Numan and Saraqib as well as the surrounding rural areas, capturing 35 residential areas.