The Israeli former Defence Minister and Head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman has called on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee to convene and review the...

A human rights group denounced today an "illegitimate" decision by the Bashar Al-Assad regime to hold presidential elections in the war-ravaged country next month, Anadolu Agency reports. Presidential elections...

United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

A 13 year old Syrian refugee has embarked on a remarkable Ramadan challenge to raise funds and awareness of the plight of refugees from Middle Eastern countries and around...

Reporters Without Borders has said that the MENA region is the "toughest and most dangerous for journalists" following the publication of its yearly report which ranks 180 countries and...

A Syrian missile exploded in southern Israel today, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor and an Israeli strike...

The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will continue to fund an education project for Syrian children in Turkey. The project known by its acronym PIKTES — Promoting...

Northwest Syria received its first batch of coronavirus vaccinations through the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX on Wednesday with inoculations set to start May 1. Reuters reports. A total of...

Syria was today stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during...

Russia's Defence Ministry announced late on Monday that it had killed "up to 200 militants" in Syria during an airstrike on "terrorist facilities" northeast of Palmyra, Russia's Interfax news agency...

The international chemical weapons watchdog will decide today whether to suspend Syria for its repeated use of chemical weapons, Reuters has reported. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

Four NGOs have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government for deadly chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017, AFP reports. According to the news site,...

An Israeli general who helped destroy the nuclear programmes of Iraq and Syria has acknowledged that destroying Iran's programme will not be as easy. General Amos Yadlin was one...

Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26 that is virtually certain to return President Bashar al-Assad for a third term – an event that Washington and the...

Syria will hold its presidential election on May 26, the country's parliament said on Sunday, a vote which is expected to return President Bashar al Assad for a third...

Rasha Kairout could be stripped of her residence permit and asylum status after Denmark deemed Damascus and surrounding areas safe for the return of refugees, Anadolu Agency reports. Kairout took refuge...

The Bashar Al-Assad regime used nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years of attacks on civilian settlements under the control of the opposition in different parts of Syria, a...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended the Security Council to refer cases of conflict-related sexual violence in a number of countries to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The countries...

Iran has supplied the Syrian regime with 3 million barrels of oil to address the worsening fuel crisis in the regime-controlled areas of Syria, Anadolu Agency reported. According to...

The Russian president today discussed the repatriation of the Syrian refugees from Lebanon in a phone talk with the Lebanese prime minister, Anadolu Agency reports. The leaders expressed their readiness...

The UN on Thursday sent 39 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria's northwestern Idlib province, Anadolu Agency reports. The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's...

Denmark has stripped 94 Syrian refugees of their residency status in one week as it presses ahead with a controversial, dangerous policy of maintaining that Syria is safe to...

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated its call to hold accountable those responsible for the chemical attack launched by the Syrian regime forces on the city of...

German Fenerbahçe midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has donated €101,000 ($120,770) to the Turkish Red Crescent for an aid campaign run during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Anadolu news agency reported. The...

President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria's Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday, Reuters reported. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement...

Nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide will mark the first day of Ramadan on Tuesday after an official sighting of the new crescent moon

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has issued a decree to protect consumers by controlling prices and preventing fraud and monopolies from being established, his office said in a statement on...

The global chemical weapons watchdog has "reasonable grounds to believe" that Syria's air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a residential neighbourhood in the rebel-controlled Idlib region in February...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has reiterated his support for Syria to be readmitted into the Arab League, a decade after President Bashar Al-Assad's regime was kicked out of...

A US official has revealed that Washington offered an unidentified ally to help Syria's first lady Asma Al-Assad get cancer treatment two years ago, as a strategy to advance...

The exacerbation of a fuel security crisis in areas controlled by the Syrian regime has caused long lines of vehicles in front of gas stations on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports....

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called Saturday for finding a mechanism for dialogue between influential states involved in Syria to achieve stability in the war-torn country, Anadolu Agency reports....