Syria’s state-run media said Israel carried out an attack on the country’s south early Wednesday with two missiles targeting an empty house and causing no casualties The missiles came from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and aimed at the building south of the capital Damascus, the...

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four ministers recently appointed to the Syrian government, blaming them for playing a role in the continued repression on civilians in the war-torn country. Asset freezes and travel bans in Europe were imposed on the four, who include the...

A general and four soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack in eastern Syria, a where jihadist groups are active, a war monitor said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a bomb exploded close to the vehicle carrying the five troops in Deir Ezzor province. The...

Damascus (AFP) – China donated 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday to war-torn Syria, which has one of the world's lowest inoculation rates and what the UN called an alarming rise in cases. The latest shipment raises to almost two million the number of such deliveries to Syria in a...

  A fire raged through forest areas in central Homs province destroying dozen of hectares, local media outlets reported Sunday.   Civil Defense workers have put out the blaze as thick clouds of smoke covered much of the western countryside of Homs province late on Saturday.  ...

  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels on Saturday shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone in the northeastern Ras al-Ayn region at the fire line with the Kurdish-led forces.   Rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the Ahrar al-Sharqiya Division, key rebel faction in the National...

The U.S. military covered up 2019 airstrikes in Syria that killed up to 64 women and children, a possible war crime, during the battle against Islamic State, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The two back-to-back airstrikes near the town of Baghuz were ordered by a classified American...

 Syria’s private Cham Wings Airlines on Saturday suspended flights between Damascus and the Belarus capital of Minsk because of the “critical circumstances” along the Belarus-Poland border where thousands of migrants have been trying to cross into the European Union. The company said...

The Director of the Syrian General Intelligence participated in the Arab Intelligence Forum in Cairo last week despite being on the US sanctions list since September 2020 due to the Caesar Act.   The Arab Intelligence Forum, which was held on November 9, is the first of its kind in...

  Russia's air strikes on the last rebel-enclave in northwestern Syria have killed five members of the same family, including three children, rescue workers said Thursday.   The Russian warplanes carried out several raids targeting the displaced camps near the town of Maaret Misrin...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Syria could regain its status in the Arab League and fully normalise relations if it is able to play its "traditional role" in supporting Arab regional security. Speaking at the Wilson Center on Tuesday, during the foreign secretary's two-day...

 The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates met with Syria’s once widely shunned president in Damascus on Tuesday, sending the strongest signal yet that the Arab world is willing to re-engage with strongman Bashar Assad. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan's visit is the first by...

Syria’s military said Israel carried out airstrikes Monday night on central and western provinces, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. The military said Israeli warplanes fired missiles while flying over neighboring Lebanon. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of...

Turkey and the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad have recently deployed army reinforcements into the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, local media outlets reported. According to reports, a Turkish convoy consisting of tanks, heavy artillery, personnel carriers and armoured...

One person was killed and three more wounded in artillery attacks by the Syrian regime forces on rebel-held areas in northwestern Hama province, local reporter said Sunday.   The regime forces and Iran-backed militias, stationed in Joreen camp in the Ghab Plain, have intensified...

A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported. It detonated as a vehicle with the seven on board passed through a desert road outside the historic city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

Butane gas shortage in Syria has reached 5,000 tonnes a day, said Syria's Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Amr Salem at a press conference on Wednesday.  The statement came two days after the Syrian government doubled butane gas price amid international energy price...

Syria will lift subsidies on basic goods such as bread and gasoline for around 800,000 of its richest citizens by the end of the year to help ease the burden on state finances, officials said on Wednesday. The move will affect high-earners working in the private sector who can buy...

Syria’s military said Israel has carried out an air raid that hit a military post on the outskirts of the capital of Damascus early Wednesday, causing material damage. It was the second Israeli attack to target areas near the capital in four days. The earlier attack on Saturday activated...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented at least 204 cases of arbitrary arrests/ detentions in October 2021, including one child and nine women.   Most of the arrests in Syria are carried out without any judicial warrant while the victims are passing through...