[ad_1] DAMASCUS: Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday, more than a decade after cutting ties, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy met the country’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus. In 2011, Britain was among the first countries to acknowledge rebel groups as the official Syrian government after then-president Bashar al-Assad’s crushing of … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the two countries’ forces. In a statement after a phone call with his US counterpart Marco Rubio, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani expressed Damascus’s “aspiration … Read more
[ad_1] President Trump signed an Executive Order Monday ending the Syria sanctions program in what the administration describes as a way to support the country’s path to peace and stability. Trump’s order will remove sanctions on Syria while keeping sanctions on the following entities: Bashar al-Assad, his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, persons linked … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Monday formally terminating a U.S. sanctions program on Syria, aiming to end the country’s isolation from the international financial system and fulfill Washington’s pledge to support Syria’s post-war reconstruction. The decision will ease broad economic sanctions while maintaining targeted restrictions on former … Read more
[ad_1] DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed those involved in the “heinous” attack would face justice. The shooting and suicide bombing Sunday at the Saint Elias church in the working-class Dwelaa district of the Syrian capital … Read more
[ad_1] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Monday strongly condemned the heinous suicide bombing at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, on June 22 which resulted in the loss of lives and left many injured. In a statement, the Foreign Office spokesperson said, “We express our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims … Read more
[ad_1] DAMASCUS: At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday, health authorities and security sources said. It was the first suicide bombing in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad was toppled by an Islamist-led … Read more