Bashar Assad issued a decree Wednesday giving hundreds of thousands of civil servants and military members a 30% salary increase amid a harsh economic and financial crisis and price increases for vital products.   Assad’s decision came as prices of main staples have been doubled like...

US forces carried out a “large airborne operation” near Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria on Monday at dawn, Syrian state news agency SANA said. The American forces landed in the town of Busayra, east of Deir Ezzor, and “kidnapped a number of civilians,” it said. There was no independent...

 Syrian Kurdish-led forces said Monday their ant-terrorism unit, with U.S.-led coalition support, killed five suspected Islamic State group fighters in a raid to break up a militant cell in Syria’s east. The Syrian Democratic Forces unit carried out the joint operation with the...

The President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, on Monday met the Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on Libyan Affairs, Stephanie Williams. The pair met to discuss the latest developments in the political process in Libya, and arrangements for upcoming...