Daesh attacks on the Syrian army and allied militias in central Syria have killed 35 soldiers over two days, a war monitor said early on Saturday. Although Daesh lost...

Several Russian envoys met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and discussed a constitutional committee, trade, as well as the ways to improve Syria’s relations with neighbouring Arab countries, Russia’s Foreign...

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The last seven days in pictures

'If there comes a day where I will lose a hand, I will still find something to do,' says father of five

For several months now, the Syrian issue has witnessed a political and military stalemate. The Idlib front has been the same since last September’s Sochi agreement between Russia and...

Areas under the control of the Syrian regime are facing a serious fuel crisis after an Iranian credit line was halted six months ago, intensifying the impact of international sanctions and opposition blockages

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said yesterday that he will present a report of his meeting with Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....

A new Trump administration report on international compliance with arms control accords provoked a dispute with US intelligence agencies and some State Department officials concerned that the document politicizes...

The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will stand trial in France for allegedly acquiring millions of euros worth of French property assets using funds diverted from the Syrian...

Until recently, Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad was seen as the dictator who succeeded in stopping the domino effect of Arab revolutions, which started from Tunisia at the end of 2010...

The US has issued a new map showing the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as Israeli territory, just three weeks after US President Donald Trump announced he would recognise the...

The Syrian regime is turning temporary refugee shelters in Homs into detention centres comparable to Abu Ghraib, the Public Relations and Policy Committee of Al-Rukban refugee camp has said...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin yesterday said his country is doing its utmost efforts to complete the formation of the Syrian Constitutional Committee in preparation for the next...

At least 11 people have been killed in escalating clashes between Russian forces and pro-Iranian militias in the city of Aleppo, amid strained relations between the two Assad allies,...

Some years ago, I met a landlord briefly who was an Iraqi. After volunteering to tell me his land of origin, he began to explain his theory that ISIS...

Plans to link the railway networks of Iran, Iraq and Syria have been revealed by a source at the Syrian Ministry of Transport. “Now, the countries are working on...

The Israeli intelligence firm, ImageSat International (ISI), yesterday released satellite images claimed to show “the complete destruction of a possible Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory” in Syria’s Masyaf District, allegedly...

The trial of 900 Iraqi citizens caught fleeing Daesh territory in neighbouring Syria has begun in Baghdad, a court official told AFP yesterday. The court received “interrogation files for...

A Syrian family who fled to Canada have spoken out about the death of their nine-year-old daughter after she committed suicide last month as a result of being bullied...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed on Sunday for information on the whereabouts of three employees abducted in Syria more than five years ago and last...

Five civilians were injured in a regime airstrike in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defence agency on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. The overnight attack...

An Israeli airstrike on a military position in central Syria injured three soldiers on Saturday, the official SANA news agency said, Anadolu reports. SANA, citing a military source, said...

Some 12,546 migrants and refugees have reached Europe by sea since the beginning of 2019, the UN migration agency said today, as reported on Anadolu Agency.  Also, 407 migrants...

More than 300 sports facilities are open to Turkish and Syrian citizens all year round, Turkey’s youth and sports minister said today, as reported on Anadolu Agency. “Sports is...

Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay $23 million in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the organisation announced...

The Syrian regime attacked the northern opposition-held territories 6,422 in March, the White Helmets civil defence unit has revealed, highlighting the continued disintegration of the Sochi ceasefire agreement. The...

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, stressed that everyone, including Iran, Turkey and even Russia should eventually leave Syria. The senior Russian diplomat reiterated Moscow’s call for...

The Bashar al-Assad regime forces on Thursday struck civilian settlements in Idlib de-escalation zone of Syria, killing two people and wounding seven others, Anadolu reports. The White Helmets civil defence...

Even when US coalition air strikes and artillery paused for people to evacuate during lulls in fighting, the killing did not stop in Daesh’s final enclave, Reuters reports. Snipers...

The Russian party of the Russia-Turkey Joint Commission has registered nine cases of ceasefire violations committed by Syrian regime forces in the past 24 hours, the Russian defence ministry...

A bomb attack in the Syrian city of Raqqa killed eight people on Tuesday, including four members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a security source in northern Syria...