A fresh rocket fire targeted the largest U.S. base in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, the second attack to hit the facility within 24 hours, according to the state news agency SANA. Smoke was seen rising from the base located in the al-Omar oil field in the...

A Moroccan parliamentary report revealed on Tuesday that 1,659 Moroccans have joined various terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. The report prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Moroccan Parliament seeks to determine the conditions of Moroccans stranded in Syria and Iraq....

Syria’s opposition National Coalition on Monday elected Salem al-Muslat as its new president following a two-day meeting in Istanbul.   Al-Muslat, a prominent tribal figure, will replace Naser al-Hariri.    Al-Muslat heads the Syrian Tribal Council in northeastern Syria. He is...

Another child was killed in an attack by the Syrian regime forces in northwestern Idlib province on Monday, while two were injured as the regime continues its violations of a ceasefire struck last year. Regime forces stationed in the Jurin area of northwestern Hama violated the...

A Syrian civilian was killed on Sunday by regime shelling of the Idlib de-escalation zone in northern Syria, according to local sources. Regime forces fired shells at Maghara and al-Bara villages in Idlib, the sources with the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) said. Idlib...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A U.S. citizen and former top aide to Jordan's King Abdullah II alleged he was tortured in Jordanian detention and fears for his life, his U.S.-based lawyer said Sunday, on the eve of a verdict in the high-profile sedition trial linked to a rare public rift in the kingdom's...

 Bashar al-Assad issued a decree Sunday giving hundreds of thousands of civil servants and military members a 50% salary increase amid a harsh economic and financial crisis and price increases for vital products. Assad’s decision came a day after the state doubled the price of...

Daraa al-Balad markets in Syria’s southern province of Daraa are witnessing a shortage in various basic materials and commodities, including medicines, fuel, bread and drinking water, while prices of goods have significantly increased, amid an almost complete power outage due to the siege...

An Iranian soldier was killed in a mine explosion in Syria, Iran's state-run television said on Friday. The soldier, Reza Safdari, was working as a "military consultant" within the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria. Location of the explosion and the rank of the soldier were...

The Syrian regime forces on Friday have bombed with heavy artillery the Jabal al-Zawiya region in northern Idlib province, targeting a Turkish military convoy, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.   The artillery attack took place near the town of Balion.   ...

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday extending the delivery of humanitarian aid for a year from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria, where the U.N. says 3.4 million people are in desperate need of food and other assistance. The resolution was adopted after...

The main session of the 16th round of Astana talks on Syria was held in Kazakhstan on Thursday with the attendance of representatives of the regime and opposition forces. The talks, which were initiated on Wednesday with bilateral and trilateral meetings of the guarantor countries --...

 A top EU official warned Thursday that the potential closure of the only remaining border crossing through which humanitarian aid can enter parts of Syria held by anti-government insurgents would have “dramatic" consequences for millions of civilians. In an interview with The...

 A U.N. resolution proposed late Wednesday would allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria through just one crossing point from Turkey for a year after objections to an initial Security Council draft that would have authorized sending aid through two border...

Ahmed Jibril, leader of a breakaway Palestinian faction that carried out hijackings, bombings and other attacks against Israeli targets in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Damascus, his group and Syrian state TV reported on Wednesday. He was 83. The Popular Front for the Liberation of...

  A Syrian army officer was killed when an unidentified armed group stormed a military post near the Lebanese border early Tuesday, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.   Two more Fourth Division forces were wounded in the attack in the village of Kfeir Yabous in the northern...

 Hundreds of women protested against so-called "honour killings" in northeast Syria on Tuesday after the latest murders of young women by relatives in the Kurdish-run region. The demonstrators marched down a street in the city of Hasakeh, some wearing a white t-shirt marked "No to...

A camp in northeast Syria housing Islamic State group relatives saw at least eight murders last month, Kurdish forces said Tuesday, the latest of dozens of such killings since January. Kurdish forces have struggled to maintain security inside the sprawling tent city of Al-Hol, which is...

Huge solar panels poke out of pumpkin and tomato fields in Syria's rebel-held northwest, where after infrastructure was destroyed during a decade of war, many have switched to renewable energy. "We used to rely on diesel-powered generators, but it was a struggle with fuel shortages and price...

Artillery fire from regime-controlled territory and airstrikes on Saturday killed at least eight civilians in Syria's last rebel enclave, most of them children, and destroyed a civil defence centre and a water station, rescue workers and a war monitor said. Shelling struck the home of a...