Politics

Al-Assad returns 'Legion d'honneur' to France - 04/20/2018

DAMASCUS (dpa)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has returned his "Legion d'honneur" award to France, days after Paris said it had moved to withdraw it. Al-Assad's office said Thursday it made the...

UN Security Council members head for informal meeting in Sweden - 04/20/2018

STOCKHOLM (dpa)- After weeks of tense and fruitless negotiations over Syria, UN Security Council members are due to arrive in Sweden on Friday for an informal working meeting withnio Gu UN Secretary...

Lebanese security authorities: 500 Syrian refugees on way back home - 04/19/2018

BEIRUT (dpa)- Some 500 Syrian refugees who fled their war-torn country to south-eastern Lebanon were on their way back to Syria on Wednesday, Lebanese security authorities and state media said. At...

German jihadist with links to 9/11 attacks arrested in Syria - 04/19/2018

BEIRUT (dpa)- German-Syrian jihadist Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who is believed to have helped plan the September 11, 2001 attacks, has been detained by Kurdish forces in northern Syria, Kurdish sources...

Trump still wants Syria exit, White House says after Macron comments - 04/16/2018

CAIRO/WASHINGTON, dpa correspondents (dpa)– President Donald Trump still wants US troops to leave Syria, the White House said late Sunday, after his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said he had...

After airstrikes, EU to push for reviving political process in Syria - 04/16/2018

LUXEMBOURG (dpa)- After the United States and its allies launched airstrikes against the Syrian regime over the weekend, EU foreign ministers said reviving the political peace process to solve the...

Israeli ambassador to Jordan starts posting, ending months-long feud - 04/16/2018

TEL AVIV (dpa)- Israel's ambassador to Jordan, Amir Weissbrod, started his posting in Amman on Monday, filling a position left vacant for nearly nine months after an Israeli embassy guard killed two...

Thousands pay tribute to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in South Africa - 04/14/2018

JOHANNESBURG, Lynsey Chutel (dpa)– Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was laid to rest in a state funeral in South Africa on Saturday. Thousands of people gathered for a ceremony at a...

One killed, hundreds injured in third week of Gaza protests - 04/14/2018

TEL AVIV, Eliyahu Kamisher (dpa)- One Palestinian protestor was killed and hundreds injured by live ammunition and teargas fired by Israeli troops, as demonstrations in the Gaza Strip extended to a...

Syria strikes expose Arab divisions on eve of summit - 04/14/2018

CAIRO (dpa)- US-led strikes in Syria on Saturday polarized Arabs, a day before their leaders are to meet for an annual Arab League summit. Locked in a bitter months-old diplomatic row, Saudi Arabia...
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