Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has held talks in Moscow with his Syrian counterpart, Murhaf Abu Qasra, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. They discussed "the practical implementation of promising areas of bilateral cooperation," the ministry said. In mid-October,...

The Syrian interior ministry said Tuesday that it had seized about 11 million captagon stimulant pills that entered the country from neighboring Lebanon in one of the largest busts since the fall of former ruler Bashar al-Assad. In a statement, the interior ministry said “the...

Two civilians were killed on Tuesday when a civilian passenger bus was attacked by terrorists on the Sweida–Damascus highway, the province’s Internal Security chief said, describing the assault as a “cowardly attempt to sow fear and disturb stability” in southern Syria. A...

An explosion hit Syria’s coastal city of Banyas on Monday, local media reported. The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device attached to a parked police car next to a police station in the city, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said, citing a security source. No injuries were...