During the trial of Anwar Raslan before the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany weeks ago,  the former intelligence officer had posited some far-fetched claims denying that he participated in torturing the prisoners and that any torture had occurred in the branch at all, saying that...

Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has recorded the death of 252 Palestinian refugee children in Syria due to war-related incidents.  The list of victims includes 70 children who died due to the blockade imposed by the Syrian government forces and its armed allies on Yarmouk...

The Syrian regime has tortured 98 people in the last two years violating the 2018 Daraa agreement, according to local sources. The regime tortured many people who resided in Daraa and applied for amnesty based on the agreement, local sources told Anadolu Agency. Those tortured included...

President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday appointed Faisal Mekdad as Syria's new foreign minister, replacing Walid Muallem who died almost one week ago, the presidency announced in a statement. Mekdad will be replaced as deputy foreign minister by Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar...

Iran on Sunday vowed to defeat any Israeli attempt to harm its role in Syria, saying the era of "hit and run" attacks by Israel there was over, days after Israel carried out air strikes on Syrian army and Iranian paramilitary targets in the country. Israel, which views Tehran as its biggest...

 Dozens of people from eastern enclave of Damascus were infected earlier with Leishmaniasis due to the spread of the "sandfly" that transmits the disease in Ghouta suburbs, a local news site said Friday. Sowt al-Assima, or The Capital Voice, said that the disease began to spread...

 Syria condemned U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the “occupied” Golan Heights on Thursday in the “strongest language” and said it was a provocative act before U.S. President Donald Trump leaves his post, state media said. Pompeo became the first U.S. secretary of state...

Fresh clashes erupted between Syrian rebels and Kurdish YPG militia near the Turkish-held Ras al-Ayn region in northern Syria, local activists said Friday. The National Army fighters thwarted a new infiltration attempt into Abu Rasayn area by Kurdish fighters on Thursday....

Nurses hover over a patient to insert a breathing tube as his condition suddenly deteriorates. ICU beds fill up almost overnight. As one patient dies of the coronavirus and is wheeled out, another is whisked in to take his place. An exhausted doctor leans against a wheelchair for a breather....

The central city of Homs has paid a very high tax from the victims since the revolution erupted in March 2011. The city that the Syrians considered as the capital of their revolution also meant a lot to Bashar al- Assad’s regime. The sectarian mix inside the city, in addition...

Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday, sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s election defeat. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a...

Clashes in the Syrian desert between Russia-backed Syrian government forces and Daesh (Islamic State group) militants killed 11 regime loyalists Wednesday, a Britain-based pro-opposition war monitor said. Mobile Daesh units have remained active in the Badia desert since the jihadists lost...

Israel said it launched air strikes against a number of Syrian army and Iranian Quds Force targets in Syria on Wednesday after explosive devices were planted in the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The Syrian state news agency reported that three military personnel were killed and one was...

After Turkey withdrew from observation posts within regime-controlled areas, Syria and Russia stepped up their attacks in Idlib, raising fears of an imminent battle. Russian airstrikes accompanied by Syrian regime-led bombardment have escalated in some areas of the northwest province...

At least three terrorists in Syria’s northwestern Al-Bab and Jarablus regions were arrested on Tuesday for their suspected links to the YPG/PKK and Daesh/ISIS terror groups, Turkey’s Gaziantep Governorate said. 
In the [Operation] Euphrates Shield region, local law enforcement officers in...

The United Nations on Tuesday sent 14 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northern province of Syria, where millions of people are living in desperate conditions due to internal conflict. The trucks carrying humanitarian aid passed through the Cilvegozu border gate in Hatay,...

 Health authorities in northern Syria have recorded 424 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday. The total number of cases in the opposition-held north-west of Syria has jumped to around 11,852 since the start of the pandemic as at least 4455 cases have been recovered, according...

Mohamed Wahoud, a Syrian bodybuilder and Jordan’s champion, was born in Khalidiya, one of the neighborhoods that revolted against the regime in Homs city. Like many of his peers, the then 12-year old sought refuge in Jordan with his family, carrying a bag of clothes, painful memories of war and...

Syria’s‬ top diplomat and long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade old conflict, died on Monday, the government said. There were no details on the cause of death, but...

Syrian has recorded 61 new coronavirus cases and four deaths over the past 24 hours, announced the Syrian Ministry of Health Sunday. This announcement brings the total number of deaths to 341, recoveries to 2,665 and total cases to 6,613, since the beginning of the coronavirus...