Nationwide power outage in Syria due to malfunctions, energy minister’s spokesperson says
Damascus, Syria Reuters Syria suffered a nationwide power outage on Tuesday night due to malfunctions at several points in the national grid, a spokesperson from the energy ministry told Reuters. The spokesperson said technical teams were addressing the issues. A view shows electricity pylons in Kiswah, Damascus suburbs, Syria, on 8th September, 2021. PICTURE: Reuters/Yamam […]
Entire families killed during Syria’s violence, UN says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday. Pressure has been growing on Syria’s Islamist-led government to investigate after reports by a war monitor of the killing of hundreds […]
Damascus faces demands for accountability after civilian killings
Damascus, Syria Reuters Syria’s Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency by Bashar al-Assad loyalists, as it faced Western demands for accountability over the reported killing of hundreds of civilians. The violence in Syria’s coastal region marks the biggest test for interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa since he […]
Syria’s Sharaa scrambles to contain deadliest violence in years
Damascus, Syria Reuters Syria’s leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority. The clashes, which a war monitoring group said had already killed 1,000 people, mostly […]
Two days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 600 people dead, monitor says
Reuters The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago. The clashes, which erupted Thursday, marked […]
Scores killed as Syrian forces seek to crush Alawite insurgency
Damascus, Syria Reuters Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced the biggest challenge yet to its authority. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that more than 130 people had been […]
Syria’s new rulers warn against incitement as tensions brew
Damascus, Syria Reuters Syria’s new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to pursue “remnants” of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government accused of the attack, state media reported. The violence in Tartous province, part of the coastal region that is home to […]
Fourteen Syrian police killed in ambush as unrest spreads
Damascus, Syria Reuters Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an “ambush” by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday, as demonstrations and an overnight curfew elsewhere marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s removal more than two weeks ago. Syria’s new […]
Assad loyalists shaken by his fall, some relieved by lack of violence
Reuters Confusion and fear have swept through Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after so many of their members had died to keep him in power. Loyalists spoke with a sense of resignation about the implosion of his 24-year rule and […]
Earthquake leaves Syrians across frontlines with shared catastrophe
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters On one side of Syria’s civil war, a man in army fatigues carried a lifeless child’s ashen body from the rubble of a shattered building in the government-held city of Hama. Across a frontline on another side of Syria, a rescue worker in the white helmet and black-yellow vest of the Syrian […]