Syria

Damascus: The Russian missile cruiser, dubbed the ‘Moscow’, will be heading to the eastern Mediterranean by the end of next Summer, the Tass News Agency reported on Saturday. “On April 20, this warship will enter the final stage of the repair process, and the technical readiness will be fully restored …

Local people in Syrian village of Abu Qasaib in northeastern province of Hasakah stopped a US military convoy on Thursday, forcing the US troops to return to their occupied base. The US convoy that sought to pass through the village near the city of Qamishli finally retreated, Syria’s official news agency …

Damascus: A series of heavy clashes broke out this evening in the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and jihadist rebels traded attacks near the city of Saraqib. According to a field source near the front-lines, the Syrian Arab Army and jihadist rebels of …

Damascus: Members of the Syrian Arab Army monitored hostile movements of armed groups on the axis of the town of Al-Ankawi in the Al-Ghaab yesterday. A field source in the Syrian Arab Army confirmed to told Sputnik Arabic that yesterday evening, on the axis of the Al-Ghaab Plain in the …

Damascus: The Syrian Chamber of Industry in Aleppo announced the production of a domestically-made respirator (ventilator) to help combat against the coronavirus (COVID-19). During a press conference at the chamber’s headquarters in Aleppo, which was devoted to announcing the launch of the device under the name ‘Amal’, the head of …

Damascus: Several U.S.-backed rebels handed over their weapons and vehicles to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) after reaching a reconciliation agreement with the government this week. According to the Russian Reconciliation Center, as many as 27 U.S.-backed rebels surrendered themselves and their equipment to the Syrian Arab Army earlier this …

Russian Ambassador to Damascus Aleksandr Yefimov has called for the lifting of sanctions against Syria, stressing that the restrictive measures obstruct the war-ravaged Arab country’s fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Even though the national health care system has been severely affected as a result of the war and unjust Western sanctions, Syria has …

Damascus: The Syrian governorate of Latakia witnessed more than ten consecutive earthquakes on Wednesday, the intensity ranging from light to medium. The Syrian National Seismological Center said that the strongest tremor was 4.7 degrees on the Richter scale and 10 km in depth; it occurred on the Syrian coast 38 …

Damascus: An unknown aircraft carried out an attack on a group of jihadist rebels that were traveling through the Idlib countryside on Thursday. According to the reports, a pick-up truck carrying some jihadist rebels was targeted by the unknown aircraft as it was traveling through the northern region of the …

Turkish-backed Takfiri militants have reportedly burned a number of residential buildings in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah. The acts of arson took place in the town of Tel Arqam, which lies 10 kilometers west of the city of Ra’s al-Ayn and near Syria’s border with Turkey, on Wednesday when …