Syria News News Syria » People: Syria's Kurds register for citizenship after decades of marginalisation
In a packed hall in Qamishli's sports stadium in northeast Syria, Firas Ahmad is one of dozens of Kurds waiting to apply for citizenship after many in the minority were barred from doing so for ...
News Syria » People: Nearly 100 people abducted or disappeared in Syria since January, says UN
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of the internal security forces stands watch at a checkpoint in the village of Al-Mazra The latest number is in addition ...
News Syria » People: In Syria, instability allowed ISIS fighters to flee camps, but many of their families still detained
NPR visits the last detention camp for ISIS wives and children in an increasingly precarious northeastern Syria.
News Syria » People: Israeli forces kill at least 13 people in southern Syria raid, officials and residents say
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli forces raided a Syrian village and opened fire when they were confronted by residents on Friday, killing at least 13 people, Syrian officials said, in the deadliest ...
News Syria » People: Few people left at Syria camp that held Islamic State families, former director says
DAMASCUS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Fewer than 1,000 families remain at a camp where relatives of suspected Islamic State militants had been held in Syria's northeast, the camp's former director said on ...
News Syria » People: Syria, once home to a large Jewish community, takes steps to return property to Jews
ALEPPO, Syria — Decades after almost the entire Syrian Jewish community left the country, Henry Hamra of Brooklyn, N.Y., stands at the metal door of a small synagogue in this ancient Syrian city, ...
News Syria » People: UNHCR: Over 200,000 people cross into Syria after a month of hostilities in Lebanon
This is a summary of what was said by Aseer T.E. Al-Madaien, UNHCR acting Representative in Syria – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in ...