Lebanon’s currency hit a new low Tuesday reaching 20 times its value on the black market since the economic meltdown began in late 2019 and likely throwing more people into poverty. The pound was trading at 30,000 to 1 U.S. dollar on the black market as the economic crisis continues...

“A tent, all I want is a tent!” That was the humbling New Year’s wish made by Shahd, a young Syrian child, who’s spent much of her life homeless and scared due to the war that has ripped apart her country. Shahd shared her wish when a journalist from Al Jazeera asked her what she would...

Five Syrian soldiers have been killed and 20 injured in a rocket attack on a military transport bus in the east of the country. Sunday’s attack took place at approximately 7pm (17:00 GMT), Syrian state media reported on Monday, adding that a military vehicle in the Badia area came under a...

Two children and a woman have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, an opposition-held area where a truce is supposed to be in place. Sources in the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) said that three civilians, including a woman and...

Satellite images taken this week over the Syrian port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after a reported Israeli missile strike, hours after firefighters contained a massive blaze. The raid launched from the Mediterranean Sea Tuesday was among the biggest launched by Israel into Syria,...

CAIRO (AP) — Libya failed to hold its first presidential election as planned this month, a major blow to international efforts to end a decade of chaos in the oil-rich Mediterranean country. The postponement of the Dec. 24 vote has opened up uncertainty over what comes next in the tenuous...

 Fires erupted in Latakia Port's container storage area following an Israeli missile attack, state-run media reported on Tuesday. The attack, the second in December, damaged facades of a hospital, some residential buildings and shops "The Israeli "aggression" caused big...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Monday that Israel’s plans to double the number of settlers living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are “dangerous and unprecedented” and only perpetuate its occupation of the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday a...

Three civilians were injured Monday in Russian airstrikes targeting displaced camps in Jabal al-Zawiya region, south of Idlib province.   Zaman al-Wasl correspondent said that three civilians were wounded, as a result of the Russian warplanes carrying out four air raids targeting a...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than five decades ago. Speaking...

Inside a Syrian monastery desecrated by jihadists, Matanios Dalloul stood alone by the shattered altar where a once-thriving community celebrated Christmas before the threat of death drove them out. The 62-year-old is one of 20 Christians remaining in the central town of Al-Qaryatain out of...

The Syrian war killed 3,746 people in 2021, a monitor said Wednesday, significantly fewer than in 2020, which had already seen the decade-old war's lowest death toll. According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of them were civilians and among those 360...

The EU mobilised an additional €10 million to help people in Syria. This funding brings total EU humanitarian support to Syria in 2021 to €141 million. The funding announced today will help people access water and rehabilitate critical water infrastructure. It will also improve the...

Winter winds and rain have pushed many internally displaced people in northern Syria out of their makeshift homes after many have been flooded out. A storm front hit much of Syria caused flooding the al-Amin camp in the village of  Kafr Arrouk. For the last two days,  Ibrahim...

Kazakhstan on Tuesday hosted a meeting between representatives from Russia, Turkey, Iran and members of the Syrian regime and the opposition. The meeting at capital Nur-Sultan marks the 17th round of the Astana Peace process that aims to find a solution for the crisis in Syria. Bilateral...

Six people, including four women, were killed in Syria’s Al-Hol camp for displaced people by Daesh in December, a Britain-based war monitor group said on Sunday. The camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria, houses about 62,000 displaced...

TOKYO: Japan to provide grant aid worth 677 million yen (about US$6 million) to hospitals in Syria that have been damaged by the conflict. The aid will go into the “recovery and strengthening of lifesaving services by hospitals in areas severely damaged by the conflict,” the foreign...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday that at least 156 children are still conscripted by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the 537 cases of conscription carried out by the SDF since its establishment, further noting that 19 children have been kidnapped and...

There are currently 65 reporters held as hostages around the world, all but one of them in the Middle East, according to the annual round-up by Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) of journalists detained, killed, held hostage and missing. Of those held, 44 are in Syria, 11 in Iraq and nine in...

A British warplane that is part of a U.S.-led coalition shot down a drone this week near a base where U.S. troops are stationed in southern Syria, officials said on Thursday. The base, known as Tanf, is located in a strategic area near Syria's Tanf border crossing with Iraq and Jordan and...