A so-called Akram AlSelti has been appointed as the new military chief of staff of the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime, replacing Major-General Mohamed Tareq AlKhadraa, who died of coronavirus last month. AlSelti served as deputy chief of staff. He...

Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Islamic State group out of an overcrowded in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official said Tuesday. So far 76 families have been transferred since July from Al-Hol to the Roj...

Russia is preparing to send 1,000 mercenaries from Syria to reinforce warlord Khalifa Haftar’s illegal forces in eastern Libya, according to local sources. The mercenaries will be sent from areas in eastern Syria that are under the Assad regime’s control, particularly the northeastern...

 The Syrian authorities have arrested 500 beggars in Damascus, seeking to restrict the mounting number of people who took begging as profession, the Social Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. State-run Tishreen newspaper quoted the Director of Social Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Dumarani, as...