May 5, 2020 Israel tells Iran it will continue Syria operations: 'We won't stop before they leave' Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday the country will continue to pursue military operations in Syria, as long as Iran remains involved there.
May 5, 2020 Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria kill 14 fighters: report Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters and wounded others, some seriously, an opposition war monitoring group said Tuesday.
May 2, 2020 Mitchell Bard: World Health Organization lies about Israel on coronavirus and other health issues President Trump renewed his criticism of the World Health Organization this week for the way the United Nations organization failed to challenge false information China initially provided minimizing the coronavirus outbreak in that country. He should also call out the WHO for its disgraceful role in spreading absurd lies and hatred about U.S. ally Israel for years.
March 23, 2020 Syrians rush to stock up; Iran reports 127 more virus deaths Iran is reporting another 127 coronavirus deaths, bringing its death toll to 1,812 amid 23,049 confirmed cases.
March 19, 2020 Trump calls for release of kidnapped journalist Austin Tice: ‘Syria, please work with us’ President Trump on Thursday called on Syria to help secure the release of kidnapped journalist Austin Tice, who was taken hostage by jihadist militants in the war-torn nation almost eight years ago.
March 16, 2020 Displaced Syrian family lives in a graveyard as the war enters its 10th year The number of dead continues to pile up in a country that was once one of the most beautiful on earth. The fear of death is never far from the mind of survivors. And some are even forced to live among those who have departed – with nowhere left to go as the last opposition-bastion of Syria’s Idlib is laid to waste.
March 10, 2020 James Carafano: Syria is the war nobody wins, except maybe Trump Syria is a big headache for many world leaders, but Trump has more to be happy about than most.
March 8, 2020 Greece's Lesbos island migrant center set ablaze, thousands of Syrian refugees arrive after Turkey opens borders A fire broke out at a refugee center on the Greek islands of Lesbos Saturday night amid tensions with Turkey over the flow of tens of thousands of mostly Syrian migrants who’ve tried to cross into Greece by land and sea last week. Â
March 6, 2020 Syrian girl, 11, to become fifth-youngest Olympian to ever compete An 11-year-old table tennis player is on track to become one of the youngest Olympians in history after she beat out a competitor nearly quadruple her age to qualify for the world stage.Â
March 5, 2020 Russia's Putin, Turkey's Erdogan reach northwestern Syria cease-fire agreement Russia and Turkey’s leaders announced they have reached a cease-fire agreement to begin midnight Thursday in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib.Â