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Syria: Casualties in explosion near Palace of Justice in Damascus

ALBAWABA - Casualties were reported in an explosion that occurred inside a cafe in Damascus on Thursday, Syrian local media revealed. SANA news agency confirmed the blast, saying it took place in the Hejaz area of Damascus. A security cordon was set up in the vicinity of the explosion site near the Palace of Justice headquarters in Damascus. The cause of the explosion is unknown as first responders rushed to ...

National flags at the entrance in UN office at Geneva, Switzerland (Shutterstock)

October 30th, 2019 - 07:33 GMT

Syrian Constitutional Committee Set up in Geneva

The Kurdish group that fights against ISIS in Syria, YPG. (Shutterstock/ File Photo)

October 29th, 2019 - 12:29 GMT

Turkey: Kurdish Militants Remain in Syria's Safe Zone

Syria (Twitter)

October 28th, 2019 - 08:55 GMT

Washington Wants to 'Steal Oil' From Syria, Experts Say

Al-Baghdadi’s death calms ‘rage and fire’ inside terror survivors (Twitter)

October 28th, 2019 - 08:26 GMT

Many Parties Claim Credit in The Al-Baghdadi Killing and Not Just The USA

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Twitter)

October 28th, 2019 - 07:50 GMT

Russia Mocks US Claim Over 'Umpteenth Death' of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Abdullah Qardash (Twitter)

October 28th, 2019 - 07:31 GMT

ISIS Already Has New Leader and His Name is Abdullah Qardash

A picture taken on October 27, 2019 shows a burnt vehicle at the site where a helicopter gunfire reportedly killed nine people near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha in the province of Idlib near the border with Turkey. (AFP/ File Photo)

October 27th, 2019 - 10:07 GMT

Did US Forces Really Kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria?

A Displaced Syrian man soothes a baby inside a school turned into a shelter for people displaced by the war, in the northeastern Syrian town of Hasakeh, on October 25, 2019. (AFP/ File Photo)

October 27th, 2019 - 10:00 GMT

HRW Urges Erdogan Not to Send Syrians Back to Their War-torn Country

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan give a joint press conference following their talks in the Black sea resort of Sochi on October 22, 2019. (Sergei CHIRIKOV / POOL / AFP)

October 27th, 2019 - 07:58 GMT

Turkey Pledges to 'Go-it' Alone in Fighting Terror if Russia Doesn't Help

The deadly incursion killed hundreds and caused 300,000 people to flee their homes in the latest humanitarian disaster in Syria's gruelling eight-year war. (Fadel SENNA / AFP)

October 26th, 2019 - 06:20 GMT

Displaced Syrian Kurds Loose Hope of Coming Back

A US military vehicle drives on a road after US forces pulled out of their base in the Northern Syriain town of Tal Tamr on October 20, 2019, as members of a Syrian family fleeing the countryside of Ras al-Ain head north in a van to the region of al-Hasakeh. US forces withdrew from a key base in northern Syria today, a monitor said, two days before the end of a US-brokered truce to stem a Turkish attack on Kurdish forces in the region. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

October 25th, 2019 - 06:27 GMT

White House Plans to Keep 500 US Troops in Parts of Northeast Syria

U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper (AFP)

October 24th, 2019 - 12:26 GMT

Mark Esper Says Turkey 'Heads in The Wrong Direction' Regarding Syria Incursion