• More Details about New US Military Base in Syria

     · Washington has established a military base in northeastern Syria, which is currently controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Daily Sabah newspaper reported on January 23, citing a report of the Kurdish BasNews news agency.. The base is in the Syrian city of AlHasakah, loed 70 km from the SyrianTurkish border and 50 km from the SyrianIraqi border.

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  • 5 Concrete Steps the US Can Take to End the Syria Crisis ...

     · 5 Concrete Steps the US Can Take to End the Syria Crisis ... Syrian war has created an enormous refugee and humanitarian crisis, which is spreading across the entire region.

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  • Rescued Syrian brown bears in Lebanon head for US | News ...

     · Two endangered Syrian brown bears that had been held in small cement cages for more than a decade in Lebanon will be flown to the United States, .

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  • Down but not defeated, thousands of ISIS insurgents wage ...

     · Down but not defeated, thousands of ISIS insurgents wage Syrian fight anew. A member of the commandos unit of the Syrian Democratic Forces stands on a sand berm in the eastern part of Syria.

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  • French Cement Giant Lafarge Indicted ...

     · The Lafarge cement plant in Jalabiya, Syria, in February. A panel of French judges is examining whether Lafarge and some former executives violated international sanctions by paying the Islamic ...

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  • Syria

     · The Syrian government has directly violated various UNSC resolutions, and Russia has systematically shielded Syria from international accountability measures. The government of Syria has not only manifestly failed to uphold its responsibility to protect, it bears primary responsibility for the ongoing commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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  • France torches Lafarge cement plant in Syria

     · France torches Lafarge cement plant in Syria. On 16 October 2019, the International Coalition set fire to the Frenchowned Lafarge Cement Factory in Jalabiyeh (on the Turkish border, north of ...

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  • Syria | Today's latest from Al Jazeera

     · Stay on top of Syria latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera's factbased news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.

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  • French Cement Giant Lafarge Indicted on Terror Financing ...

     · The Lafarge cement plant in Jalabiya, Syria, in February. A panel of French judges is examining whether Lafarge and some former executives violated international sanctions by .

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  • France′s Lafarge Cement charged with crimes against ...

    Cement giant Lafarge is to be investigated in France, facing charges of crimes against humanity and financing terrorists via its Syrian subsidiary. The company says it will appeal the charges.

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  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war

    Israel and Syria have technically been in a state of war since 1948, when both came into being. They have fought each other in three major wars: the 1948 Arab Israeli War, the 1967 SixDay War, and the 1973 Yom Kippur 1974 there has been a ceasefire arrangement between the two countries, along the socalled Purple Line, which has largely been adhered to by both countries, though not ...

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  • US conducts airstrike on weapons storage site as troops ...

     · Two US Air Force F15 jets conducted an airstrike targeting an American munitions storage bunker at a US base in Syria Wednesday in order to prevent .

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  • The History of Concrete

    Early Use of Concrete. The first concretelike structures were built by the Nabataea traders or Bedouins who occupied and controlled a series of oases and developed a small empire in the regions of southern Syria and northern Jordan in around 6500 BC.

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  • France: Cement corporation Lafarge paid 15,300,000 to ...

     · Financing the jihad for their shortterm profit line. A policy that in the long run is nothing less than suicidal. "France's Lafarge loses ruling in Syria 'crimes against humanity' case," by Eleonore Dermy and Clare Byrne, AFP, September 7, 2021: France's top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for ...

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  • Russia deploys Tu22M3 Bombers to Syria

     · 27 May 2021. Russia deploys Tu22M3 Bombers to Syria. by Tim Ripley . Three Tupolev Tu22M3 'Backfire' bombers landed at Humaymim airbase in Syria for the first time on 25 May, the Russian ...

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  • The Three Faces of Russian Spetsnaz in Syria

     · As the Russian drawdown from Syria continues, more information continues to emerge about the forces Moscow had committed to shoring up the Assad telling aspect is how involved Russia's Spetsnaz special forces were in the deployment. They were involved in two of their three core missions — reconnaissance and special security missions .

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  • French cement company Lafarge faces 'crimes against ...

     · French cement company Lafarge paid ISIS terrorists millions to keep Syria factory running, can be charged with 'crimes against humanity: Details Along with the company, eight Lafarge executives, including former CEO Bruno Laffont, are also charged with financing a terrorist group and/or endangering the lives of others, as per reports.

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  • UN Envoy Calls for Concrete Int'l Efforts to Advance ...

     · UN Envoy Calls for Concrete Int'l Efforts to Advance Political Resolution in Syria MOSCOW, August 24 (Sputnik) Geir Pedersen, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, expressed concerns on Tuesday over a resurgence of .

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  • How to travel to Syria in 2021: Everything you must know ...

     · We Syrians have always been happy to find tourists visiting our humble country, and I myself have always dreamed about helping tourists discover Syria (given the fact that I am one of the rare Syrians who actually speak English properly), but alas the war took away the tourists from me and I had to leave Syria to study abroad in them American University of Beirut.

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