Five civilians were injured in a Russian airstrike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Wednesday. The attack targeted civilian settlements in al-Rami village in southern Idlib, the agency said. White Helmets said two children...

Damascus has sharply increased petrol prices in government-held areas of Syria, saying that US sanctions on the war-torn country had left it with no alternative. The cost per liter of the 100-liter ration of subsidized petrol motorists are allowed each month has risen from 250 to 450 Syrian...

An effort to reduce growing strains on overcrowded prisons in Syria, some holding thousands of captured Islamic State fighters, is being met with cautious optimism in Washington, even though it involves letting hundreds of the terror group’s adherents walk free. The plan put into motion...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad moved Wednesday to exempt more low-wage earners from income tax, his office said, as the economy buckles under the weight of US sanctions and nearly a decade of war. The legislative decree, the first such amendment in years, widens the tranche of low-income...