WESTERN ARMENIA – Syria sends back to France the prestigious Légion d’honneur (Legion of Honour) given in 2001 to President Bashar al-Assad after Paris joined the US and the UK to attack the Arab country, saying the leader will not...

Syria made headlines over the weekend when President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike in coordination with France and Britain, after a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed more than 40 people within the country. The airstrike came just four days...

KARIN – Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has announced that the regime in Riyadh would be ready to send troops into Syria as part of a potential wider deployment led by the United States. Jubeir said on Tuesday that Riyadh...

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he was holding meetings on Thursday on Syria, where he has threatened missile strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack, and expected to make decisions “fairly soon.” Fears of confrontation...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement played down on Friday the risk that the Syrian crisis would spiral into a U.S.-Russian military conflict, but its leader raised the possibility of a “direct fight” between Iran and Israel. The heavily armed...

KARIN – In response to US President Donald Trump’s threat of an imminent missile attack on Syria, Russia has advised Washington to target terrorists instead of the Syrian government and its forces. “Smart missiles should fly toward terrorists, not legal...

Germany’s parliment has voted to approve a motion describing the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a century ago as genocide. DW spoke to the President of the German Bundestag, Norbert Lammert.

WESTERN ARMENIA – 6 In June 2016, Pope Francis, current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church was on a three-day official visit to the Republic of Armenia. This visit was not a routine visit of the ruler of the state....

BEIRUT, LEBANON – At midnight, the Russian Aerospace Forces unleashed a flurry of airstrikes over the Idlib countryside, hitting several jihadist targets near the Turkish border. According to a military source in Damascus, the Russian Aerospace Forces specifically targeted the...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:00 P.M.) – Having substantially assisted the Syrian forces in liberating almost 90% of East Ghouta pocket, the Russian military is now involved in distributing aid to the impoverished civilians. Today, a Russian aid convoy roamed several towns...