News From Syria

The following report is republished from Press TV: Several rockets have reportedly targeted a military facility housing US occupation forces in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.Local sources, who preferred not to be named, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that four …

The following letter was issued by Fr. Elias Zahlaoui on March 13, 2020: Holy father, The tenth anniversary of the cosmic war on Syria, my homeland, is in a couple of days. I would like, today, to ask you, personally, and the whole Catholic Church, everywhere, a question that is …

The following article is reposted from Al-Masdar News:  BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:20 P.M.) – The U.S. military stormed an oil pumping station belonging to the Syrian government in the northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah this week. According to a field reporter for Sputnik Arabic, the U.S. forces stormed the station that is …

The following interview, initially published by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reprinted from Mark Taliano’s website: DAMASCUS-  President Bashar al-Assad has stressed that nobody believes that Turkey will repatriate 3 million Syrian refugees to the northeast of the country and this is a deceptive humanitarian slogan raised by …

Damascus, September 14, 2019 Holy father, This is the tenth letter I, a simple Catholic priest, allow myself to write to you from Syria on this day of September 14, 2019. I am addressing it to the representative of Jesus Christ only, not to the President of the Vatican City. Yes, …

The following article by Eva Bartlett was originally published at MintPress News: For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, many of the accusations levied at government and its allies …

The following article was republished from SyriaNews, where it was first published on June 12 2019: Dozens of Syrian families have been released from the US-controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Al-Tanf, southeast of Syria. The released families arrived at the Jaligam crossing in Homs eastern countryside after spending years in …

Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari, May 17, to Security Council: Statement of Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afar on May 17 to the UN Security Council’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, specifically in Idlib: Mr. President, I would like to start by congratulating you and your friendly country, Indonesia, on your successful …

With the family of martyr,  22 year old Majed Monif Qiddeeseh , in Mhardeh. This is his mother. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley.) The following video and article were originally published by Vanessa Beeley on Facebook: A MOTHER OPENS HER HEART AFTER HER YOUNGEST SON WAS MARTYRED BY A NUSRA FRONT ROCKET …

Sandy, Mpho and Shaka with Palestinian Children in Mar Elias Refugee Camp, Beirut, Lebanon May 5, 2019Tim Anderson*From 28 April to 5 May three former political prisoners under South Africa’s apartheid regime – Mpho Masemola, Sandy Lebese and Shaka Radebe – visited Lebanon and Syria to share their experiences, learn …