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SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajri, leader of the Druze community in Suwayda Governorate, southern Syria, called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the fighting in Syria’s coastal region. In a…

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that it is closely monitoring reports of escalating violence along Syria’s coastal region. A U.S. Department of State official told North Press "We are aware of…

LATAKIA, Syria (North Press) – Military factions affiliated with the government's security forces carried out raids in Syria's coastal cities of Banias and Jableh, local sources said on Saturday. The raids resulted in killings and…

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Friday that nearly one million displaced Syrians in northwestern Syria are planning to return to their areas of origin within the next…

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Ministry of Defense, under the caretaker government, announced on Saturday that it had successfully repelled an attack by "remnants of the former regime" on the Naval Command headquarters in the…

By Omar Abdurrahman DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – With the fall of the al-Assad regime and the withdrawal of Iranian-backed militias, most displaced residents of the city of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, have returned to find…

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Saturday that more than 240 people were killed on Friday in various incidents amid clashes between Syrian security forces and armed groups accused…

That elderly Kurdish woman sitting in the second row didn’t seem to care about the dozens of journalists gathered in the conference hall of a hotel near Taksim Square in Istanbul. Nor did she pay much attention to the seven speakers seated…