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DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey will not abandon Syria. “We will continue to stand by them," Erdogan stressed. "God willing, no one will be able to prevent Syria from…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A research report released on Tuesday by a group of civil society organizations has shed light on the impact of displacement on elderly people from Afrin, in northwestern Syria, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain),…

AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – As the olive harvest season approaches in the Kurdish-region of Afrin, northwestern Syria, economic offices affiliated with Turkish-backed armed factions have reemerged, only months after their declared…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Drug smuggling operations from Syria into Jordan have undergone a shift in recent months, even as their frequency has declined compared to the period before the fall of the al-Assad regime, a Jordanian…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Amnesty International said on Tuesday that it has verified compelling evidence that Syrian transitional government and affiliated forces carried out extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians in Suwayda on…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that it has discovered traces of uranium in Syria during an ongoing investigation into a site destroyed by Israel in 2007, which the agency has…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A senior UN refugee official said on Monday that about 850,000 Syrians have already returned from neighboring countries since Assad’s fall. Deputy High Commissioner of the UNHCR, Kelly T. Clements,…

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – The Jordanian army announced on Monday that it had foiled two attempts to smuggle narcotics-laden balloons across the Jordan's eastern border. A military source from the General Command of the Jordanian…

By Zana al-Ali TABQA, Syria (North Press) – In the village of Twaihina in the countryside of Tabqa, northern Syria, farmer Ibrahim al-Harir digs an irrigation canal by hand, stretching more than a kilometer in a desperate attempt to…

HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The recent security operation in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, was carried out in response to intelligence reports on growing Islamic State (ISIS) activity, Abjar Daoud, Spokesperson for the Syrian…