Syria

A German court sentenced a former intelligence officer in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's security services to life in prison after convicting him of murder, rape and crimes against humanity in a landmark trial

The UK's Home Office has assured that it does not plan on sending Syrian refugees and asylum seekers back to Syria, after it rejected one of their asylum applications...

Egypt's president has criticised Europe for refusing to take in refugees claiming that his own country has taken in millions of people. "I'm talking about huge numbers," he said...

The verdict in a landmark trial for crimes against humanity will be heard tomorrow against a Syrian secret intelligence agent in the town of Koblenz in Germany. Anwar Raslan,...

Iran is complicit in the killing of some 500,000 Syrians, former Iranian lawmaker Faezeh Hashemi said yesterday. Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told Iran...

Dozens of residents of Azaz and Marea in northern Aleppo protested on Monday against the sharp rise in the price of electricity, Aram news site has reported. The protesters...

US forces, in cooperation with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have set-up an oil refinery in the oilfields of Rmeilan in the northeastern city of Hasakah, state-run SANA news agency reported....

The UK Home Office has ordered that a Syrian asylum seeker can return to Syria as it is safe to do so, igniting condemnation amid evidence that refugees are...

The Military Police of the Syrian regime stormed residential neighbourhoods in the city of Palmyra, east of Homs Governorate, on Saturday and arrested dozens of young men wanted for...

Human rights organisations disagree with the decision to deem the Damascus area or any area in Syria safe for refugees to return to.

A British beauty queen has been refused entry to the US ahead of the Mrs World contest which kicks off today, "due to her Syrian background." Leen Clive, 29,...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for the expansion of the 'Axis of Resistance,' as the alliance seemingly continues to consolidate power in the region. According to the state-run...

The military general who Russia has appointed to lead its "peacekeeping mission" in Kazakhstan is the same man who headed Moscow's operations in Crimea and Syria over the past...

50 Iraqi members of the Daesh group were handed over to Baghdad from Syria on Saturday, according to Iraqi authorities, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Iraqi Defense...

Two days after rocket attacks, the US has dispatched military reinforcements to its bases in the oil fields in eastern Syria, local sources told Anadolu Agency on Friday. "American...

When assessing Turkey's military involvement over the past few years – including in Syria, Libya and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict – one thing must be highlighted: the significant capabilities of...

A common trope over the past decade has been the notion that Lebanon has been "held hostage" by the Hezbollah movement and its chief backer, Iran. This is based...

Iran has, in recent decades, succeeded in building a network of allies and proxies among Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, that advance Iranian interests against...

Israeli tanks opened fire across the Syrian border yesterday, in an attempt to give a warning to several suspicious and identified figures spotted manning military posts on the Syrian...

The four Turkish conditions for the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, as reported in the media, have raised questions about the reality of Turkey's position on the regime...

Ten rockets were fired from Syria's eastern Mayadin region on Wednesday, apparently targeting the Al-Omar oilfield in the Deir ez-Zor province of eastern Syria, where US forces are also...

Turkey is deporting two Syrians after a video of them insulting Turkish women emerged on social media, further widening the tensions between Turkish nationals and Syrian refugees within Turkey....

Russian warplanes have bombed a pumping station that provides water to Idlib in north-western Syria, left 300,000 civilians without water, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. Russian...

Russian jets bombed areas near Idlib in the north-west of Syria on Tuesday. According to Syrian Civil Defence officials this was the seventh consecutive day that the opposition held...

Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

With Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting the rule book regarding its conduct in the neighbouring Arab country. Gone are the days of...

Syrian regime forces have incurred losses at the hands of Daesh in the desert region of Badia, in the east of the country. State-run news agency SANA reported that five members...

At least 1,271 civilians, including 229 children, 134 women and 104 victims of torture were killed in Syria in 2021, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in...

A Syrian mother and her three children died in their sleep after inhaling toxic fumes from burning coal to heat their room in a village in southern Lebanon, a...

Sweden granted citizenship to over 27,000 Syrian refugees in 2021, remaining one of the most welcoming European countries for asylum seekers and migrants. According to a report by the...

Commenting on Bahrain's reappointment of its ambassador to Damascus, Washington declared that it does not support rehabilitating Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, Alhurra news website reported on Friday. "Washington does...

First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy, has said that his country did not agree to any military action in Syria,...