A Syrian TV drama about the lives of political prisoners was banned from being broadcasted on the privately owned Syrian television channel Addounia (The World), on September 4.
Syria has appointed its first ambassador to Iraq in almost 30 years following the swearing in of Nawaf al-Fares by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a ceremony in Damascus on September 16.
A nine-year-old Palestinian refugee from Iraq living in the al-Tanf camp in no-man’s land between the Syrian-Iraqi borders was killed by a truck on September 10.
A Syrian military court sentenced former Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam to life imprisonment and hard labour after finding him guilty of 13 charges, including high treason, in Damascus on August 17.
Syrian authorities arrested a Syrian-Austrian citizen at Damascus airport last month over claims he had been in touch with a Syrian dissident, a human rights group said on September 9.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hosted a four-way peace summit in Damascus on September 4 with the leaders of Turkey, France and Qatar.
