UN agency delivers aid including blankets, children’s supplies, tents, cleaning materials and water storage containers to the northern border city
Lawmakers divided on push to substitute religious education with ethics courses in an effort educate children against sectarianism
Suqour al-Sham tells Alsouria Net that opposition forces launched attack on government-controlled district with car bombs and light weapons in an attempt to neutralize the effect of Russian and Syrian air power
Social media pages mourn the death of five soldiers from the western Hama town killed in Aleppo, including General Abou al-Muntakhab
Markets strike to ‘save the eastern Ghouta’ and correct the direction and path of the revolution, activist reports
Turkey hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, around 3 million, and has so far spent more than $12bn on their Syrian guests
Russian security source confirms Admiral Grigorovich frigate en route to support fleet in the Mediterranean
Source claims Syrian intelligence responsible for forming the 27,000 strong force in the country’s south
Bashar al-Assad told Serbian newspaper Politika the US’ “secret collaboration with terrorists is the reason why all attempts at a ceasefire and political transition in Syria have so far failed.” Following is the full text of the interview as published by SANA, the official news agency.
Locals in northern Syria claim UN aid is being diverted to individuals sympathetic to the Assad regime while those in need have been refused support, as confirmed in a report by the British Guardian newspaper
“It’s not pressure that created the problem — it’s the intellectual cultivation and the mentors who were raised by the teachers of Al-Qaeda and the Wahhabi ideology… This is the fruits of decades of sectarian broadcasts and miseducation.”
New law will substitute for the “foundlings” law, as the government moves to substitute the term for children of “unknown parentage” in an effort to reduce stigma
New report claims Syria witnessed a loss equal to 212 percent of gross domestic product for the year 2015 alone
Top general confirms Russian and Syrian forces have offered to open corridors out of the besieged city for civilians and militants to leave
Ministers enact security bill and form central working group to review best use of public funds to boost production and the economy
More than 12,000 square km of territory has been liberated from terrorist control due to Russian and Syrian forces, Russian defense minster claims
The issue that is difficult to find a clear explanation for so far is the reduction in the intensity of the bombardment. Is there something threatening the Russian aircraft? Or is Putin sending a message to the Iranians after the dispute that erupted between them that they will lose without his support?
27-year-old wife and children of a Syrian refugee found dead in apartment in southern Danish city of Aabenraa
“Committee believes it is necessary to revive the truce once more in Aleppo and elsewhere and remove the fighters of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and permit international organizations to enter the eastern districts, and to bring out wounded and sick and treat them”
“People took taxis because of their cheap prices, and today it has become rare for anyone to take one of our cars… the fares are very high”
