The Syrian regime said it shot down Israeli missiles as they approached the capital Damascus on Friday, saying it had countered an “aggression” from its longtime adversary with its own air defenses. State-run news agency SANA said Syria shot down most of the missiles, which were launched...

A Russian-negotiated cease-fire took effect Wednesday in a volatile southern city, according to the Syrian opposition and state media. Violence in the area in recent weeks between regime forces and opposition fighters had threatened to undo years of relative calm along the borders with...

Syrian regime forces shelled rebel-held parts of a volatile southern Daraa city Monday killing at least one person, while insurgents killed four soldiers after Russia-brokered talks to end the presence of opposition fighters in the area collapsed. Syria’s state media reported that...

Syria’s military bombarded the last rebel enclave in the southern city of Daraa on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of the deadliest attacks in its siege of the birthplace of the country’s uprising, residents said. The army declined to comment on the reports but said in a statement it...

The Syrian government must immediately lift a two-month siege of opposition stronghold Daraa al-Balad and allow unfettered humanitarian access to the area where around 20,000 people are living in dire conditions with scarce supplies of food and barely any medical care, Amnesty International said...

ALEPPO, Syria — Hassan al-Sheikh and Khaled al-Jajah are two Syrian young men who are looking at death sentences issued by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on charges of collaborating with the US-led international coalition. The two men had been arrested nearly a year ago in Syria’s northwestern...

Syrian opposition forces have begun to leave the southern province of Daraa following the implementation of a Russia-brokered truce deal, according to a war monitor. Daraa was recaptured by the Syrian government in 2018 but attempts to impose the state's control over the Daraa al-Balad...

 A massive oil spill caused by leakage from a power plant inside one of Syria’s oil refineries is spreading along the coast of the Mediterranean country, Syria's state news agency said and satellite photos showed Wednesday. SANA said the spill reached the coastal town of Jableh, about...

Fighting between government forces and former rebels in the Syrian province of Daraa has displaced more than 38,000 people over the past month, the United Nations said Tuesday, as truce talks falter. Daraa, retaken by government forces in 2018, has emerged as a new flashpoint in recent...

An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight gunmen and wounding others, opposition activists said. The explosion came as opposition fighters suffered a major setback in southern Daraa province, where a Russian-brokered deal led...

 Millions of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures, record low water levels due to lack of rainfall and drought, international aid groups warned Monday. The two neighboring countries, both battered by years of...

A car bomb wounded at least seven people in the Turkish-held northern town of Azaz on Monday, rescue Civil Defence group said. The YPG-suspected attack, has occurred in the town centre. Areas of northern Syria held by Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition forces are...

A fighter jet with the U.S.-led coalition shot down a drone in eastern Syria on Saturday after the unmanned aircraft was deemed a threat, the U.S. military said.  "Coalition aircraft successfully engaged and defeated a UAS through air to air engagement in the vicinity of Mission Support...

Representatives of the Qatirji company and leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) met in the Tabqa Civil Council — affiliated with the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria — in early August to discuss the possibility of increasing oil shipments that the company,...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Saturday, in the eighth anniversary of the largest chemical weapons attack by the Syrian regime on the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attacks have killed nearly 1,500 Syrian citizens and injured nearly 11,080...

Israeli air strikes on Syria have killed four pro-Iranian fighters allied to the Damascus regime, a Britain-based war monitor said Friday. Syrian state media earlier said its air defense system engaged “hostile targets” over the capital Damascus late on Thursday. “The Israeli enemy...

Syria regime shelling has killed eight children and a woman in the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib in just two days, a war monitor said Friday. Artillery fire early Friday morning on the village of Kansafra in the northwestern stronghold killed four children from the same family,...

Loud explosions shook the Syrian capital late on Thursday as state media reported Israeli airstrikes around Damascus. The state-news agency SANA said Syrian air defenses confronted the Israeli planes, while the pro-Syrian government Cham FM Radio reported airstrikes in the Damascus...

Turkey-backed Syrian forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters shelled one another’s positions in northern Syria on Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead and more than a dozen wounded, the Kurdish side and a war monitor reported. The violence is the latest in northern Syria, which has...

  At least three civilians were killed Wednesday in a missile attack by Kurdish YPG militia on northern Afrin city, according to local reports.   It was indicated that a petrol station was targeted, causing a large fire and a plume of smoke.   Later in the day, Turkey's...