Category: General

Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad issued Law No. (12) for 2024 regarding the protection of electronic personal data on the network.

The law aims to preserve the privacy of citizens’ data and regulate the process of collecting, processing, using and transferring personal information on the network in a way that ensures its confidentiality and deters perpetrators of illegal acts in this regard, through financial penalties that may reach to 12 million SYP and other punishments which may rise to three years imprisonment.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee has received 143 reports on people who went missing during the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, TASS quoted the committee’s press service as saying.

‘The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has received 143 reports from victims who say that their relatives or loved ones went missing as a result of the terrorist attack,’ the statement reads.

In addition, the Investigative Committee said that 84 bodies had been identified, including the bodies of five children.

‘Molecular genetic tests are being conducted to establish the identities of the rest of the dead people,’ the committee said.

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just over the Moscow city limits. The current death toll is 140. According to the latest information, 360 people were injured. Of those, 260 have received outpatient treatment.

Eleven individuals suspected of being involved in the terrorist attack h
ave been apprehended, including four gunmen who were detained in the Bryansk Region, southwest of Moscow, as they attempted to seek refuge by crossing the nearby Ukrainian border.

President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that, according to preliminary information, the Ukrainian side had prepared ‘a window’ in the border especially for the terrorists to cross undetected. He promised to identify and punish all those who were behind the attack on Crocus City Hall.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Aleppo and Idlip, Units of our armed forces operating in Idlib and Aleppo countryside repelled two violent attacks launched by terrorist groups.

‘Units of our armed forces operating in the direction of Kafr Nabl in Idlib southern countryside, responded with appropriate weapons to a violent attack launched by terrorist groups in coincide with heavy rocket fire on our military points yesterday evening, Military source told SANA.

The source added that our Forces also intercepted a terrorist attack on one of our military points in Aleppo northern countryside

Our armed forces managed to thwart the two attacks and caused dozens of dead and wounded among the terrorists, destroyed their weapons, the source reported.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, The People’s Assembly on Wednesday held its session, chaired by Speaker Hammouda Sabbagh, and approved a draft law on ratifying the protocol regarding the Convention of International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention).

Minister of Transport, Zuhair Khuzaym, said this project aims to develop air transport between Syria and other countries, as Syria has approved the ratification of the proposed amendments for the Chicago Convention.

The Assembly also approved the draft law amending some provisions of Legislative Decree No. 42 of 2012 regarding medical laboratories and it became law.

The Minister of Health, Hassan al-Ghabbash, indicated that the amendment is based on the necessity of providing the health sector in Syria with cadres scientifically qualified in specializations in the field of laboratory work, along with working to license specific laboratories and benefit from technical expertise.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Occupied Jerusalem, The Israeli Occupation’s aggression against Gaza Strip has entered its 173rd consecutive day, by land, sea and air, targeting homes, residential communities and streets while committing more bloody massacres and horrific crimes against Palestinians.

Palestinian media reported that at least 9 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured, following an Israeli bombardment targeting two houses in Khirbat al-Adas and the al-Sho’ut neighborhood in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian was martyred and others were injured, as a result of the occupation bombing a group of people waiting for aid east of Beit Hanoun.

The occupation stormed Nasser Medical Complex west of Khan Yunis, arrested a number of medical staff and displaced people, and shot the displaced after ordering them to evacuate the medical complex.

the death toll reaching 32,414 martyrs and 74,787 injured since Oct. 7, 2023. while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and a
mbulance and rescue staff are unable to reach them.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Beirut, 7 paramedics were martyred on Tuesday in a hostile Israeli airstrike that targeted an emergency center in the village of al- Habbariyeh, southern Lebanon.

‘A raid targeted a building in Habbariyeh used by the Emergency and Relief Service, which is under its supervision,’ Lebanese media outlets quoted Lebanese Emergency Center as saying in a statement.

The statement added ‘We consider this attack to be a heinous crime by all standards, and a flagrant violation of international laws and conventions, and the perpetrator of this crime bears full responsibility’ Lebanese media quoted Lebanese Ambulance Association as saying in a statement.

For his part, an official in the association said: ‘More than ten paramedics were at the emergency center when it was targeted,’ noting that bodies were recovered from under the rubble.

Israeli enemy continues its attacks on different Lebanese regions, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and wounded, in addition to the destruction of dozens of homes and causing severe d
amage to infrastructure.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

MOSCOW, The US has backed itself into a corner by jumping the gun to lay blame on the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, outlawed in Russia) for the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall even as the incident was still in progress, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

‘The very fact that within the first 24 hours [after the attack], even before the fire was put out, the Americans started screaming that it wasn’t Ukraine, I think, is a piece of incriminating evidence. I can’t classify it otherwise; it is evidence in and of itself,’ the diplomat said on air during a Sputnik radio broadcast.

‘The second fact to note concerns the clamor by the US that this assuredly was the work of ISIS (former name of IS – TASS),’ the spokeswoman pointed out. ‘Of course, the speed with which they were able to [come to such forthright conclusions] is astonishing. It took them only a few hours to get to a microphone, turn on the lights, summon the press and draw a conclusion about who is to blame for this hor
ribly bloody terrorist attack,’ Zakharova said.

‘I think they’ve boxed themselves into a corner, because as soon as they started screaming that it was ISIS, all those people who work in international relations, who are political scientists and experts, recalled and reminded everyone else what ISIS really is,’ the diplomat said. ‘You are behind all those ISIS-type structures, you – the United States, Great Britain – yourselves brought them into being,’ she concluded.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Geneva, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations working in Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, has reaffirmed Syria’s inalienable right to restore the occupied Syrian Golan.

In a statement at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, under ‘item VII’ on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, Ali Ahmad added that the impunity of the Israeli occupation entity has encouraged it to persist in its criminal and terrorist attacks, which constitute a threat to global peace and security.

He stressed Syria’s categorical condemnation of the criminals of the Israeli occupation and all those who provide them with political coverage and military and economic support to commit more killing and bloodshed in occupied Palestine.

‘The Syrian Arab Republic affirms its inalienable right to restore the occupied Syrian Golan, and calls on all countries not to recognize any steps taken by the occupying power to perpetuate its oc
cupation, and to refrain from providing any assistance that would enable it to continue its violation of international law,’ the Syrian diplomat said.

He added ‘Syria also urges the international community to put pressure to implement successive United Nations recommendations to immediately and completely halt the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and in the occupied Syrian Golan, and all other related activities.’

Ali Ahmed continued: ‘The unprecedented situation of impunity has encouraged ‘Israel,’ the occupying power, to persist in its criminal and terrorist attacks against the Syrian Arab Republic and to launch repeated attacks against residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure, including civilian airports.’

Syria’s permanent representative stated that the Israeli occupation continues its attempts to perpetuate its occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan, and to create geographical and demographic facts to stabilize the illegal annexatio
n plan.

Ali Ahmed noted that the increasingly brutal and bloody crimes of the colonial occupation based on apartheid did not deter some countries from continuing to support this occupation and provide it with justifications for its crimes, nor did they deter the United States of America from applying its only standard, which is absolute and blind support for the occupying power.

Ali Ahmed thanked those States that had demonstrated their concern for international law and had engaged in discussions of item VII, which aimed to put an end to an occupation that committed grave, systematic, long-term and unprecedented violations of human rights.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, General Directorate of Ports at the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday announced that all ports were reopened for maritime navigation, except Arwad and the finishing ports in Tartous after the improvement in the weather conditions.

Earlier on Monday, the Directorate announced the closure of all seaports in Lattakia and Tartous until further notice due to the prevailing weather conditions, the high waves and the high wind speed.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Riyadh, The Syrian national football team beat Myanmar national team on Tuesday 7-0 in a match that brought them together at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd Stadium, Saudi Arabia, in the 4th round of the group stage for the joint World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers.

Footballer Omar Khribin scored three goals and Moayad Ajan scored two goals while Alaa al-Dali scored a goal and Ibrahim Hesar the last goal.

Earlier, the Syrian team beat the Korean team 1-0 in the 1st round, while it lost to Japanese team in the 2nd round, and tied with Myanmar team in the 3rd round of the group stage.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency