Asia Syria The number of victims -press reports 'dozens', 48 to over 70- is rising in the clashes in the northeast of the country where Isis militiamen attacked Kurdish-Syrian forces in control of a prison where thousands of 'Islamic State' militiamen are being held
Asia Syria The General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in Syria received five archaeological pieces from the Nabu Museum in Lebanon during a celebration held at the Beirut National Museum also sponsored by Syria's ambassador to Beirut, Ali Abul-Karim
Asia Syria China has sent over 4.000 tonnes of rice as humanitarian aid to the country, with the Chinese ambassador handing them over to the head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent at its headquarters in Damascus
Asia Syria Cuba has reiterated its condemnation of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people at a ceremony to mark the sending of 240.000 doses of the Corona vaccine provided as a gift to the country
Asia Syria Damascus' parliament recently approved the budget law for 2022, with a total amount of $5,3 billion; the figure is lower than 2020 and 2019, a symptom of the deep crisis the country is going through
Asia Syria Preparations are underway to evacuate several other groups of Russian children from the country; Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova added that virtually all Russian children who were in Damascus have returned to Russia
Asia Syria Aiming to facilitate humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, the USA took action to let NGOs deal with elements of local government despite American sanctions, and gave them wider latitude in their activities
Asia Syria Three sculptures looted from the ancient city of Palmyra in 2009 or 2010, dated to the third century bC, have now been returned to the country after being later intercepted by Swiss customs police in a Geneva free port
Asia Syria A new building, consisting of 3 large amphitheaters, 12 educational rooms and 16 administrative offices, has been inaugurated at Damascus University by Prime Minister Hussein Arnous for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Asia Syria Several European travel agencies are now organizing tours in the country, after an interruption of about ten years in consequence of the war
Asia Syria Thousands of students participated in the annual university carnival on Monday, which brought together students from the medical and engineering faculties of Damascus University and ended with a basketball game
Asia Syria After days of the news circulating in Syrian and pan-Arab press, it has been confirmed that Interpol reintegrated the country into its information exchange system, suspended in 2012 in the context of international sanctions against the Assad regime
Asia Syria The Nobel bookshop, one of the most important in Damascus - active since 1970 - has closed; it's the latest in a long series of closures of bookshops and publishing houses, which has dried up the Syrian much-needed cultural life