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Al Bawaba
19-05-2025
- Al Bawaba
Car bomb in Syria kills at least 3 police officers
Published May 19th, 2025 - 04:39 GMT ALBAWABA - At least three policemen died after a car explosion near a police station in eastern Syria on Sunday, Local media reported. State news agency SANA added that another two officers were injured in the blast, which took place next to the police station in the city of Al-Mayadeen in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Khalil Abdulmoneim al-Ayoub, director of Al-Mayadeen city detailed that the car explosion happened at exactly 07:13 pm local time on Sunday. "Initial investigations and an inspection of the site revealed that it was caused by a car bomb, resulting in the deaths of three members of the General Security and a number of injuries," al-Ayoub said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said five people had been killed in the blast, including four police officers. The organization also mentioned that "two civilians, including a girl, were injured" in the incident. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Time of India
At least three police officers killed in Syria car bomb
Representative Image DAMASCUS: Three police officers were killed and two other people wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police station in eastern Syria on Sunday, state news agency SANA reported. "Three police officers were martyred and two others were injured in an explosion that occurred today near the police station in the city of Al-Mayadeen in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor," SANA reported. "At exactly 07:13 pm (1603 GMT) today, an explosion occurred near the Al-Mayadeen police station," Khalil Abdulmoneim al-Ayoub, director of Al-Mayadeen city, said in the report. "Initial investigations and an inspection of the site revealed that it was caused by a car bomb, resulting in the deaths of three members of the General Security and a number of injuries," he said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five people had been killed in the blast, including four police officers. "Two civilians, including a girl, were injured," it said. According to the war monitor, the explosion coincided with the launch of a security campaign in Al-Mayadeen by the General Security, the country's new police force.
Shafaq News
18-05-2025
- Shafaq News
Booby-trapped vehicle kills three Syrian police officers near Iraqi border
Shafaq News/ A booby-trapped car exploded near a police station in al-Mayadeen in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province, state media reported on Sunday. The blast occurred near the General Security headquarters in the city, which lies close to the Iraqi border, killing three officers and injuring several others. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Khalil Abdul-Moneim al-Ayoub, the city's administrative director, stated that security forces secured the site and imposed a temporary curfew as investigations began. Al-Mayadeen sits along the Euphrates River and remains a hotspot for insurgent attacks. While parts of Syria have stabilized, Deir ez-Zor continues to witness periodic bombings and ambushes, particularly by suspected ISIS remnants operating in eastern Syria and adjacent desert regions.
Al Jazeera
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
At least three killed as Syrian forces raid ISIL hideouts in Aleppo
Syrian security forces have killed three ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested four others in Aleppo, authorities said, the first time the interim government has announced such an operation against the group in Syria's second city. The raids, launched by the General Security Department in coordination with the General Intelligence Service, targeted multiple ISIL sleeper cells operating across Aleppo, Syria's Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday. One security officer was killed in the operation, it said. Forces stormed the site and seized 'explosive devices, an explosive vest and a number of General Security force uniforms', the statement added. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the operation took place in Aleppo's Haidariya district and that clashes also broke out in another neighbourhood. Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who assumed power in Damascus in December, has long opposed ISIL. His forces battled the group's self-declared caliphate during the Syrian war. US President Donald Trump met al-Sharaa this week in Saudi Arabia and described him as an 'attractive guy with a very strong past'. Following the meeting, Washington announced that it would lift sanctions on Syria – a major policy shift and boost for al-Sharaa's transitional government. Al-Sharaa seized power in Damascus in December after his forces toppled Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive. Al-Sharaa cut ties with al-Qaeda in 2016. The recent operation comes just months after Syrian authorities said they had foiled an ISIL bombing plot near the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, a key pilgrimage site for Shia Muslims south of Damascus.
L'Orient-Le Jour
10-05-2025
- Politics
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Around 100 Syrian families 'voluntarily' return to Syria
The Lebanese Army supervised the "voluntary" repatriation of 100 Syrian refugee families from the Arsal camps (Baalbeck-Hermel) to western Qalamoun in Syria on Saturday. The operation began at Wadi Hmayed in Arsal, reported L'Orient Today's correspondent in the Bekaa. Escorted by the army to the Lebanese-Syrian border, the families headed to the Zamrani crossing point. The return, described as voluntary by Lebanese authorities, was part of the weekly measures taken by the Lebanese Army from the village of Arsal and the neighboring areas north of Bekaa, heading towards western Qalamoun and the city of Homs, "in cooperation with the Syrian displaced." About 50 families joined these two regions on Friday, passing through the Jousseh border crossing, near the village of Qaa. Revived at the end of April after a long suspension, the process of the return of Syrian refugees is overseen by the Lebanese Army. Meanwhile, General Security handles the administrative formalities related to the legal status of entry and exit. "These people have been in Lebanon for quite some time and have stated that they want to return home. General Security recorded their names," a well-informed source told L'Orient Today. A first group of 240 refugees left the border village of Arsal via the Zamrani border crossing at the end of April. Their return, supervised by the Lebanese Army, took place in the presence of representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a General Security patrol.
