Non-governmental organisation Maloca Internationale, which operates under the umbrella of the UN and in the international arena, submitted a report to the 80th session of the UN Committee against Torture, which started on 8 July and will continue until 26 July. The report draws attention to the rights violations in the regions under the occupation…
Jul 13, 2024 QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A United Nations agency released on Friday a report highlighting how sanctions against Syria affected the lives of the Syrian people. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) released a report titled “Dynamics and Unintended Effects of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs) against the Syrian Arab Republic,”…
Jul 15, 2024 QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Syrians in the government-held areas started on Monday to head to the ballot boxes to elect new members for the parliament. There are 1,516 government-approved candidates running this year for the 250-seat Syrian parliament. Some 8,151 polling stations were set up in 15 voting districts in government-held…
USCENTCOM said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) that Kurilla visited from July 12 to 14 U.S. military facilities in Syria and Jordan “to assess force protection improvements and the overall defeat ISIS campaign.” The statement added that Kurilla met on July 13 with the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Yousef Alhnaity…
By Omar Abdurrahman DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The orchards of the city of al-Jalaa in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, that were once recreation destinations for the people of the area, have been turned into military sites under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS) and then the Iranian-backed militias…
DAMASCUS, Syria– A suspected Israeli airstrike killed on Monday a Syrian businessman, close to the Syrian government, Muhammad Baraa al-Qatirji, in his car on the Damascus-Beirut highway. North Press correspondent reported that an airstrike, likely to be Israeli, bombed the car of the Syrian al-Qaterji near a tourist area of Yafour, south of Damascus, southern…
DAMASCUS, Syria– Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that Turkey has not given us any guarantees, as “we are moving positively on clear principles which are international law and national sovereignty.” Al-Assad’s statement came as part of a series of statements regarding Syrian-Turkish ties and their normalisation during an interview with al-Mayaden TV Channel…
