Clashes Tuesday in the Syrian desert between Russia-backed regime forces and Daesh (ISIS) militants have killed almost 30 fighters, a Britain-based war monitor said. Battles have been ongoing in Syria's vast Badia desert since the start of the month, with regime forces supported by Russian...

 Pro-Turkish Syrian rebels pounded Moscow-backed regime forces with rocket and artillery fire in northwest Syria Tuesday, a day after Russian aircraft killed dozens among their ranks, a monitor said. The air strikes Monday hit a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction near the...

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia killed 56 fighters from a Turkey-backed rebel group in northwest Syria on Monday, a Britain-based war monitor said. Russian warplanes also wounded 100 people when they targeted a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction in the Jabal Duwayli area...

Syrian health authorities on Saturday received medical assistance to fight the Covid-19 pandemic from the World Health Organization (WHO). 'A delivery note was signed at the International Airport of Damascus for 8.8 tons of medicines, supplies and medical equipment offered by the WHO to...

Civilians and media figures often compare Idlib, which is under control of the Syrian Salvation Government affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — a group designated as a terrorist organization in the United States — to areas governed by Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions....

Local sources in government-held Aleppo province revealed that while bread is abundant in the area for less than 300 pounds per packet, army officers are selling soldiers’ bread portions to feed merchants. According to the sources, a few days ago, a merchant bought 500 kilograms of bread in...

An announcement by the local council in Turkish-held Tal Abyad region north of Raqqa provicne has banned people and vehicles from leaving their houses without a personal identification document issued by the council for “security reasons.” According to a source from the council, they...

Israeli forces have distributed leaflets throughout areas of southwestern Syria warning regime forces not to participate with Iranian militias and Hezbollah, following an Israeli airstrike that hit a school in the region. According to London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, which cited a media...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has claimed that the Kurdish militias and administration in north-east Syria would not have released low-level former Daesh fighters without being pressured to do so by the United States. Speaking at a news briefing yesterday, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

Hundreds of mourners including Syria's religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus Friday for the state's top Muslim cleric, who was killed in a bombing near the capital. Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni, the Sunni Muslim Mufti of Damascus who was close to President Bashar...

The US Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwest Syria near the border, killing 23 jihadists, according to a war monitor and Zaman al-Wasl sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the victims included five foreigners and six...

A roadside bombing Thursday killed a senior Syrian cleric who played a key role in government deals with rebel fighters, according to Syrian state media and a government website. The explosion that killed Damascus Mufti Adnan Afiouni took place in the town of Qudsaya, west of the capital of...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said that the unexploded war remnants across the Handarat Camp in northern Aleppo province, present an ongoing threat to the lives of Palestinian refugees, especially the children who are unaware of the dangers of disturbing them. The UK-based...

The investigation into the murder in France of a teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turned to Syria Thursday, where the killer had a Islamist militant contact, a source close to the case said. Seven people have been charged with being complicit in a "terrorist...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said the United States will not change policy toward Syria to obtain the release of U.S. journalist Austin Tice and other detained Americans. “Our ask is that the Syrians release Mr. Tice, tell us what they know. They have chosen not to do...

 Three Iran-backed paramilitary fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli strike that hit Syria's southern province of Quneitra, a war monitor said Wednesday. The three were from the Syrian Resistance to Liberate the Golan, a group linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, said...

Displaced Syrians in the Deir Ballout and Mohamadiyah camps in northern Syria have raised concerns about the suspension of the work of the Molham medical team by the Directorate of Health in Afrin, especially with 3 suspected cases of Covid. Dr. Ahmed Haji Hassan, director of Afrin...

Turkey will send around 110,000 tons of flour and legumes as aid to needy countries, the country’s Official Gazette announced early Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency. According to a presidential decree published in the gazette, the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) will supply up to 100,000 tons of...

Five civilians were injured in a Russian airstrike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Wednesday. The attack targeted civilian settlements in al-Rami village in southern Idlib, the agency said. White Helmets said two children...

Damascus has sharply increased petrol prices in government-held areas of Syria, saying that US sanctions on the war-torn country had left it with no alternative. The cost per liter of the 100-liter ration of subsidized petrol motorists are allowed each month has risen from 250 to 450 Syrian...