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Syria

Latest news from Syria as covered by the Guardian. News and stories about the country, people and politics

March 2024

  • A scene from The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner.

    The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner review – tense mystery of a missing writer and a Nazi fugitive

    This story involving an SS officer who fled to Syria after the war is simply staged but slippery, intriguing and full of nuance
  • Palestinian children amid the rubble of a building, after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Palestinian foreign ministry accuses Israeli government of ‘blind revenge’ – as it happened

    Comments come after Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Israeli military would go ahead with plans for operations in Rafah
  • Syrians in Idlib on 15 March at a gathering to mark 13 years since pro-democracy protests swept the country

    Protests in north-west Syria mark 13 years since start of fight for democracy

    Rallies take place in Idlib region, held by rebels against Bashar al-Assad, whose repression sparked civil war in 2011

February 2024

  • Agricultural land in Beirut seen through a chain-link fence

    Rights and freedom
    The desperate last-ditch search for Lebanon’s missing war victims

  • Shamima Begum

    Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship

  • Lawyers sought to overturn ruling last year that revocation of her citizenship was lawful

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    Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship – video

  • A blast that hit a building in a residential area in Damascus, Syria, has killed two people, Syria’s state TV has said

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    Israeli strike on residential building in Damascus kills two, says state media – video

  • ‘Music is the language of the world’: how a Syrian refugee became the toast of the Irish folk scene

  • Maritime authorities investigate reported attack on UK-registered cargo ship near Yemen

  • Italian court jails people smuggler over shipwreck that killed at least 94 migrants

  • Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria

  • US-backed Kurdish fighters killed in drone strike on US base in Syria

  • Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Drone strike in Syria reported to have killed six members of US-backed Kurdish-led group – as it happened

  • One year on, orphaned siblings are haunted by Syrian earthquake

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘No one can bring back what we lost’: fears rise among poor in Turkish city ravaged by earthquakes

  • Middle East crisis live
    Houthis face ‘further consequences’, Austin says after latest strikes – as it happened

  • US and UK hit 30 Houthi targets to further weaken Iran-backed groups

  • US B-1 bomber takes off during strikes in Syria and Iraq – video

  • US launches airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for deadly drone attack

  • US retaliatory airstrikes on targets in Iraq and Syria will not be the last

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