The Syrian government issued new decisions regarding subsidised food staples and commodities, after widespread anger among loyalists about the circulation of these material in the market through officials and powerful people in the regime. The Ministry of Domestic Trade and...

A former Syrian prime minister was a double agent who worked with Britain, France and Israel, a report published by Haaretz claims to have revealed for the first time. Jamil Mardam, who served as prime minister of Syria in the late 1930s and mid-1940s, was reportedly working with the...

On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1946, and there was no reason to think it would be the last. Yet 50 years later, Hafez Assad’s...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure on the United Nations and Syria’s neighbours for the reticence of more than 5 million refugees who fled the conflict there to return. “There are many hurdles,” Assad said, citing U.S. sanctions at the...