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Syria’s national museum reopens doors in war-scarred Damascus

DAMASCUS: Syria’s National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced them to...

France, Russia send humanitarian aid to Syria for Ghouta victims

France and Russia dispatched a plane carrying humanitarian aid to the ravaged former Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta.

At destroyed Syria lab, workers deny producing toxic weapons

Plastic gloves and face masks lay scattered in the rubble of a Syrian research lab destroyed by Western strikes on Saturday, where an official...

Syria’s ruined Ghouta unrecognisable to returnees

ZAMALKA, Syria: Syrians displaced from the bombed-out Eastern Ghouta suburb are eager to return home, but fighting has destroyed so much of their hometowns...

‘Deal reached’ for Syria rebels to quit last Ghouta holdout

DAMASCUS: The Syrian regime on Sunday drew closer to taking full control of rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta after a deal appeared to be reached...

U.S. warns it may act on Syria as onslaught against Ghouta grinds on

UNITED NATIONS/AMMAN: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned on Monday that Washington “remains prepared to act if we must,” if the...

Death toll tops 1,000 in assault on Syria’s Ghouta: monitor

DAMASCUS: More than 1,000 civilians have been killed since Syria's government launched a brutal offensive on the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta enclave nearly three weeks...

Syrians in Ghouta scramble for safety as bombing builds

SYRIA: As cars of fleeing civilians zipped around him, Syrian shepherd Abu Qassem led his flock of shabby-looking sheep out of their battered hometown in...

Aid reaches Ghouta but retreats after shelling; Syria presses assault

BEIRUT/GENEVA: Aid trucks reached Syria’s eastern Ghouta region on Monday for the first time since the start of one of the war’s deadliest assaults,...

Macron urges Tehran to ‘pressure’ Syria to halt Ghouta offensive

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to put the "necessary pressure" on the Syrian government to...

Syrians flee government advances in eastern Ghouta

BEIRUT: Hundreds of people are fleeing advances by Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta, a war monitor and a resident said on Sunday, as...

Regime forces advance in Syria’s battered Ghouta: monitor

DAMASCUS: Syrian regime forces have advanced inside Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said on Saturday, as fighting intensifies on the ground to retake the battered...

Elderly Pakistani couple quit Syria’s embattled Ghouta

DAMASCUS: An elderly Pakistani man and his wife have fled Syria's embattled Eastern Ghouta, it emerged Thursday, the only known civilians to have left...

Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce plan

BEIRUT/GENEVA: Syrian government forces launched a ground assault on the edge of the rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave on Wednesday, seeking to gain territory despite...

Uneasy calm in Syria’s Ghouta as Russian-backed truce begins

BEIRUT: The Syrian rebel-held eastern Ghouta region was mostly calm as a five-hour ceasefire called by Russia took effect on Tuesday, a war monitor...

Air strike kills Syrian family of nine in Ghouta: monitor

BEIRUT: A family of nine was killed in a Syrian government strike on eastern Ghouta, a war monitor said on Monday, as Russia said...

‘Hell on earth’ in Syria’s eastern Ghouta must end: UN Secretary General

GENEVA: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for warring sides to implement a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, in line with an appeal...

Rescuers say cannot keep up with air strikes battering Syria’s Ghouta

BEIRUT: Rescuers in Syria’s eastern Ghouta said the bombing would not let up long enough for them to count the bodies, in one of...

Boy’s death shows danger for besieged Syrians seeking food

BEIRUT: Two-year-old Emir al-Bash’s blood still showed on his mother’s hand as she sat in a medical centre in Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta where...

Turkey wants to bring wounded from Syria for treatment

ISTANBUL: Turkey is working with Russia to evacuate around 500 people from the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said...

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