DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Algeria’s foreign minister on Monday decried Syria’s decadelong suspension from the Arab League during a visit to Damascus, indicating support for the war-torn country's return to the organization under President Bashar Assad. Syria was expelled from the 22-member...

The Director General of the Syrian Oil Company said many investments to discover new oil fields in the north and south of Damascus and in central Homs province, local newspaper reported on Sunday. On the sidelines of the "SyrPetro" exhibition, which is currently being held in Damascus, Firas...

 Ghazwan Al-Atman thought he had found refuge in Manbij after years of displacement, but he now fears his family will be uprooted once again as a threatened Turkish onslaught looms over the Syrian town. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has repeatedly vowed to launch a new...

 ,A monitoring rights group says a Russian warplane struck a house on Friday in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, killing seven civilians, including four children. Syrian Civil Defense volunteers rushed to the house to remove the bodies under the rubble. The Syrian...

Israel launched airstrikes targeting Syrian military positions around Damascus overnight, killing three soldiers, wounding seven others, and causing material damage, state media reported Thursday. Syrian state media quoted a military official as saying the missiles were fired from Syria's...

Iran and Syria on Wednesday warned against any military operation by Turkey in Syria. Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, said his country is concerned about a possible Turkish operation in northern Syria. He made the comments during a joint news conference with visiting...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Wednesday it is formally breaking diplomatic ties with Ukraine in response to a similar move by Kyiv. Syria is a strong ally of Russia, which joined Syria’s conflict in September 2015 helping tip the balance of power in favor of President Bashar Assad....

The Syrian oil ministry intends to besiege the traffickers of fuel on the black market through several measures, including the installation of GPS, and others related to the installation of sensors on the fuel tanks of the petrol stations in a way that allows it to monitor and track "every drop...

The Syrian regime forces intensified their artillery and missile shelling, targeting villages and towns in the countryside of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo, located within the so-called "fourth de-escalation zone", local sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  Regime forces and Russia-backed militias...

Five people including three children drowned on Friday in separate incidents in northwestern Syria, bringing the number of drownings in the same region to 25 since the beginning of this year. These took place near the city of Afrin in the Aleppo governorate, close to the Turkish border....

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria presented 9 recommendations that would improve the general situation of Palestinian refugees from Syria, improve their conditions, and secure a safe and dignified life for them. The AGPS addressed the international community and UNRWA in a report...

The Syrian Electricity Minister stated that the best solution to overcome the bad electrical reality in the country lies in the use of renewable energies, such as installing solar water heaters, photovoltaic collectors and some small electric turbines on the roofs of industrial facilities and...

Syrian protesters blocked a main road in the country's northeast after the region's Kurdish-led authorities announced they will cut electricity for a fortnight to carry out maintenance at a gas station, according to reports Thursday. The energy office for the Kurdish-led administration's...

US-backed Kurdish militants in Syria recruited at least 483 child soldiers into their ranks last year, a report by the United Nations has revealed. According to the annual Children and Armed Conflict report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, published on Monday, the Kurdish-led...

Unidentified gunmen assassinated two collaborators with Military Security in southern Daraa province, which witnesses a continuation of assassinations, the frequency of which increased after the regime took control of the province in the summer of 2018, activists said on Wednesday. No group...

The US military says it has killed the leader of ISIL (ISIS) group in Syria in a drone strike outside Jandaris, northwest Syria, with another senior ISIL official “seriously injured”. Maher al-Agal, one of the top five ISIL leaders was killed, said US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Tuesday in...

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday extending humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest for just six months in a victory for Russia. The vote was 12-0 with the United States, Britain and France abstaining. The three veto-wielding...

The last aid deliveries from Turkey to Syrians in the rebel-held northwest took place on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council failed to extend humanitarian aid for another year. Almost all Council members favored a year-long extension, but Russia demanded a six-month renewal, with a new...

 The U.N. Security Council failed in two rival votes Friday to extend humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest, with the U.S. ambassador warning that “people will die because of this vote.” After days of consultations, the U.N.’s most...

BEIRUT (AP) — Bashar Assad made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo on Friday to inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war, state media reported. Government-held parts of Syria endure more than 12 hours of power cuts a...