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Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 42 people are dead

Mar. 29, 2024 04:05 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes early Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded “a number of” people and caused damage. An opposition war monitor said the strikes killed 42, most of them Syrian troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack rises to 143, while 80 others remain hospitalized

Mar. 27, 2024 15:31 PM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 143, Russian authorities said Wednesday. Around 80 other people wounded in the siege by gunmen remain hospitalized. The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, a sprawling shopping and entertainment...

US imposes more Iran sanctions and hits Syrian regime with penalties for drug trafficking

Mar. 26, 2024 12:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a money exchanger and a group of firms across six countries involved in commodity shipments and business transactions that benefit Iran's military and the Houthi militant group in Yemen and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. ...

Airstrikes in Syria kill an Iranian adviser and a member of a World Health Organization team

Mar. 26, 2024 11:48 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — A series of airstrikes in eastern Syria on Tuesday killed more than a dozen people, including an Iranian military adviser and a team member working for the World Health Organization, officials and reports said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the...

US-backed Syrian force that defeated IS 5 years ago warns group still poses international threat

Mar. 23, 2024 12:46 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S.-backed force that defeated the Islamic State group in Syria five years ago warned Saturday that the extremists still pose grave dangers throughout the world and called on the international community to find solutions for thousands of fighters still held in its jails. ...

UN seeks $4B for aid in Syria as civilians face growing humanitarian crisis

Mar. 22, 2024 11:50 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian official appealed Friday for more than $4 billion in life-saving aid for more than 10 million Syrians, saying that the country's largely forgotten crisis remains “one of the most deadly to civilians in the world.” Adam Abdelmoula, resident...

Israel strikes several sites in Syria, wounding a soldier, Syrian military says

Mar. 16, 2024 20:15 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in southern Syria early Sunday wounding a soldier, Syrian state media reported. State news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military official, said air defenses shot down some of the missiles, which came from the direction of the...

Violence in Syria is on the rise while aid is flagging as the civil war enters its 14th year

Mar. 15, 2024 10:15 AM EDT

AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years, Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict entered...

The Latest | Ship with food aid leaves for war-torn Gaza; Israel says 100 rockets fired from Lebanon

Mar. 13, 2024 00:58 AM EDT

A ship carrying 200 tons of food was on its way Tuesday to the war-devastated Gaza Strip from the island of Cyprus to test-run opening a sea corridor to the besieged Palestinian territory, where hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of starvation. The Israeli military...

Swiss refer Syrian president's uncle to trial for alleged war crimes over 4 decades ago

Mar. 12, 2024 08:16 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors said Tuesday they have indicted former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Assad, the uncle of the war-battered country's current president, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly ordering murder and torture more than four decades ago. ...