International donors meeting in Brussels said Monday they will commit 7.5 billion euros ($8.1 billion) in both grants and loans to support Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger for the rest of this year and beyond. The pledges surpassed the modest $4.07 billion that the United...

The explosion comes as an Israeli drone attack reportedly targeted a car and a truck near Syria’s border with Lebanon. A car explosion has killed one person in Syria’s capital Damascus, Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the victim. “One person was killed when an...

Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer. The statement said Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to...

The Syrian regime’s security and intelligence services appointed a number of officers close to Russia in sensitive positions to be responsible for the Air Force Intelligence branches in Homs, Hama and the coastal region. An anonymous source from the monitoring and follow-up units of the...