Timour Azhari
@timourazhari
Iraq Bureau Chief @Reuters usually in Damascus, Beirut or Baghdad.
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will organise a Saudi-Syrian investment forum in Damascus, aimed at exploring the potential for cooperation and signing deals that should promote sustainable development, the Saudi Investment Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
BREAKING - Fact-finding committee did not find that Syrian commanders gave orders to commit violations, in fact gave orders to halt violations.
Syria’s leadership this week had understood they could deploy troops to Sweida based on U.S. messaging that turned out “not to reflect reality”. Then, killings & humiliation of Druze — which followed an attack on govt forces — handed Israel an opportunity to act forcefully, a…
Latest ceasefire declaration in days
BREAKTHROUGH —— Israeli Prime Minister @Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa @SyPresidency supported by the U.S.A. @SecRubio have agreed to a ceasefire embraced by Türkiye, Jordan and its neighbors. We call upon Druze, Bedouins, and Sunnis to put down their weapons and…
July 18 (Reuters) - Bloodshed in Sweida left at least 321 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Friday, in a new toll.
Protecting Syria from chaos -- that's how Pres. Ahmad al-Sharaa is framing the ceasefire that, for now, holds. For the very latest on that ceasefire and what this moment means in terms of trust in Syria's new government, we went live to Damascus in tonight's show to speak to…
BAGHDAD, July 17 (Reuters) - Drones struck oilfields in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday, with officials pointing to Iran-backed militias as the likely source of attacks this week that have slashed the region's oil output by more than half. By @Ahmed_Rasheed_R
WESTERN DIPLOMATS WERE TENS OF METRES FROM ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES ON DAMASCUS DEFENCE MINISTRY ON WEDNESDAY, TWO PEOPLE INCLUDING SYRIAN WITNESS SAY DAMASCUS, July 17 (Reuters) - Western diplomats were passing near Syria's defence ministry in Damascus in an armoured convoy when…
In a 4a.m. address to the nation after Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa referred to “the Israeli entity” and said Syria did not fear war. Marks a significant shift from previous messaging, referring to the “state of Israel” and seeking peace with…
BAGHDAD, July 17 (Reuters) - A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others missing, the city's health authorities and two police sources told Reuters on Thursday.
SYRIA'S HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS DOZENS OF BODIES FOUND IN SWEIDA NATIONAL HOSPITAL
BREAKING — A new Israeli strike in Damascus Filmed just now.
