Syrian Civil War

• France issues war crimes arrest warrants for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

  More than 1,000 people were killed with chemical weapons in two attacks in 2013. France issued war crime arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

  Crime

  Nov 15, 2023
  
• Syrian refugees tortured, detained upon return to country, Amnesty reports

  The rights group documented what it said were violations committed by Syrian intelligence officers against 66 returnees, including 13 children between mid-2017 and spring 2021.

  World

  Sep 6, 2021
  
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• Syrian minister accuses Turkey of being one of region’s ‘main sponsors of terror’

  Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem made the statement in a prerecorded speech to the first-ever high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly held virtually.

  World

  Sep 26, 2020
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• Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, Syrian troops clash near country’s last rebel stronghold

  The fighting was among the worst since early March, when a agreement between Turkey and Russia halted the Syrian government's three-month air and ground campaign into rebel-held northwestern Idlib province.

  World

  May 10, 2020
• Turkey-Syria conflict escalates as migrants, refugees arrive at Greece border

  SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely.

  World

  Mar 1, 2020
• Trudeau, King of Jordan to meet in Ottawa

  The Prime Minister's Office says the two will discuss the partnership between Canada and Jordan and efforts to promote diversity and counter violent extremism.

  Canada

  Nov 18, 2019
• ‘Meant to be’: Syrian refugees reunited with help from Regina family

  In the middle of a cheering airport, Abdulnaser Alkhatib, 32, hugged his mother, Fatema Abosalooa, as they were reunited after four years.

  Canada

  Nov 14, 2019
• ISIS says U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 40 in Syria, mostly women and children

  Militants and some local residents said at least 40 people were killed in the latest wave of coalition airstrikes against the last remaining Islamic State-held pocket near the Syria-Iraq border.

  World

  Nov 17, 2018
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• Syria’s Assad says White Helmets are terrorists, will be killed if they don’t surrender

  Hundreds of members of the White Helmets group were evacuated out of Syria by the Israeli military last week, with around 50 of them expected to be resettled in Canada. 

  World

  Jul 26, 2018
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• Trudeau and Israel’s Netanyahu discussed evacuation of White Helmets

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed plans to evacuate the White Helmets from Syria prior to a rescue mission carried out overnight by the Israeli military.

  Canada

  Jul 22, 2018