Syria’s new defense minister said on Sunday it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces. Speaking to Reuters at the Defense Ministry in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said the...

Syria’s foreign minister said on Saturday he was looking forward to the return of Syria to the Arab League as the country’s new rulers seek a place in the regional political landscape. Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani made his statements during a joint press conference in Damascus with Arab...

Syria lost on Friday the writer and theater director Farhan Bulbul after a long struggle with illness at the age of 88, and with his absence the Arab theater lost one of its pioneers who came after the founding generation. Bulbul was a milestone in the history of Syrian and Arab...

Civil society, represented by a group of volunteers, took the initiative to clean Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque, one of the most prominent historical landmarks in the central city of Homs, which was severely damaged by the bombing of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. The mosque, located in...