The U.N. special envoy for Syria announced Tuesday that invitations have been issued for a sixth meeting of the committee charged with producing a new constitution for war-torn Syria in October. After the failure of the five previous meetings of Syrian government, opposition and civil...

In northern Syria, a decade of war has left water and sanitation infrastructure damaged and neglected. More than three million people—many of whom have already been displaced from their homes by conflict—now face a water crisis that has dire health consequences. “Even when water is available...

Turkey sent reinforcements to the last rebel-held enclave in northwestern Syria as Russia stepped up air strikes there on Sunday, several sources said, three days before leaders Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan are due to meet for talks. Residents as well as opposition and military sources...

Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi has met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday. Jerandi and Mekdad reviewed bilateral relations, the recent...

Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SMDK) head Salim al-Muslat on Sunday said that the United States must pressure the Bashar Assad regime to accept a political transition in the war-torn country. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), al-Muslat said: “The coalition believes...

 Warplanes attacked Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria on Sunday, killing and wounding about 20, an opposition war monitor and pro-regime media said. The airstrike struck a position in an area near the town of Afrin. It came amid increasing tensions between regime...

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) released its twelfth annual report on monitoring the use of cluster weapons worldwide. The CMC is a global civil society campaign working to eradicate cluster munitions, prevent further casualties and put an end...

 The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that her office has documented the deaths of 350,209 people — civilians and combatants — in Syria’s civil war over the last decade, while admitting the real number for those killed in the conflict is almost certainly far higher....

The international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria carried out an airdrop at dawn on Thursday in the country’s east, leading to the arrest of one of the group's leaders.  Backed by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Global Coalition airdropped between the...

Syrian regime forces entered several villages to the west of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, bringing the country's southern region under government control. The latest move comes two weeks after the capture of the rebel-held part of Daraa marking another victory for Bashar Assad,...

Save the Children slams foreign governments for failing to repatriate their citizens from refugee camps in northeast Syria, where children face a host of threats. Tens of thousands of children are “wasting away” amid widespread violence and threats in two refugee camps in northeast Syria,...

Turkey's military has dispatched thousands of additional troops to opposition-held northwestern Syria ahead of a critical meeting with Russian and Iranian leaders next week, a report said Thursday. While officials did not speak of a new cross-border operation, they have consistently...

Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria, a particularly devastating development in a region where dozens of hospitals have been bombed and that doctors and nurses have fled in droves during 10 years of war. The total number of cases...

Drone strikes Monday killed two jihadist commanders close to Al-Qaeda in the Idlib region of northwest Syria, a war monitor said. The raids were carried out by the US-led international coalition battling jihadists in Syria and Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. But the...

 Syria’s defense minister met Sunday with Jordan's army chief in Amman after after Syrian troops captured several rebel-held areas near Jordan’s border, state media reported. The Hala Akhbar news site, which is linked to Jordan’s military, reported that the meeting between Jordanian...

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a gas pipeline at Deir Ali power station near Damascus, according to a statement published on Saturday on its affiliated Telegram channels. Daesh fighters "were able to plant and detonate explosives on the gas pipeline feeding...

An attack with explosive devices laid along a natural gas pipeline southeast of Syria's capital knocked out power in parts of the country before it was quickly restored, the electricity minister said Saturday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the latest...

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has distributed more than 2,000 aid packages containing food and hygiene kits to people in quarantine due to the coronavirus in northern Syria, Turkish authorities said on Friday. 
The aid campaign for people who are in quarantine...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday that it has documented at least 174 attacks on bakeries since March 2011 to date, 149 of them at the hands of the Syrian-Russian alliance forces, noting that the Syrian regime is incapable of securing the most basic necessities of human life, and...

Saudi air defences on Wednesday destroyed an explosives-laden drone launched by Yemen's Houthi group toward Abha airport in the southwest of the kingdom, the Saudi-owned Dubai-based al-Hadath channel reported. A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen after the Iranian-aligned...