Sources: The Jerusalem Post
Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrest eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria. 2024-07-3
Hungary's ruling party Fidesz boycotts a National Assembly session called by opposition parties to speed up the approval of Sweden's NATO membership bid. 2024-02-5
The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey increases to 43,850, as the World Health Organization declares northwestern Syria as the zone of greatest concern, citing the slow delivery of humanitarian aid. 2023-02-16
Four people are killed after a failed attempt to smuggle drugs from Syria to Jordan. 2022-05-22
A woman and her brother-in-law are arrested in Essen and Hildesheim, Germany, respectively, after they travelled to Syria to join ISIL. The woman also travelled with her four young children. 2020-07-28
French authorities give up to 1000 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, until 8 p.m. local time on 23 February to leave the Calais jungle camp. Those who refuse to leave will be forcibly removed by police. 2016-02-20
U.S. Military officials announce that a military airstrike in northwest Syria killed a financial manager and leader of an al Qaeda network. Sanafi al-Nasr, of Saudi Arabia, was said to have been plotting terror attacks against the West. 2015-10-18
Friends of Syria calls on Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to withdraw from Syrian territory. 2013-05-23
The announcement of possible wreck relocation of Swedish 16th century warship Mars in the Baltic Sea. 2011-08-19
Today's Friday protests take place in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Yemen among other places. 2011-04-8