More than 3 million Syrian students started school in government-held areas Sunday, marking the first school day amid strict measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, state media reported. Syria, which had a population of 23 million before its conflict began in March 2011, has...

Sergeant of the Guards Mikhail Milshin, who was seriously injured in a roadside bomb blast in Syria on August 18, died in a Moscow hospital, a medical source told TASS on Sunday. "Milshin was transferred to the Burdenko hospital in critical condition, and was connected to a lung...

Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city, Syrian state television said on Friday. Later, the broadcaster said the army downed several Israeli missiles before they reached their targets in the latest attack Syria said was conducted by Israel. Israeli defence...

The regime's General Organization of Forensic Medicine declared that it recorded 116 suicides since the beginning of this year, confirming that the numbers exceeded last year’s number, where Syria recorded 124 cases. The state-run Al-Watan newspaper quoted the commission’s director...

A Turkish brigadier general who was on duty in the Idlib province of Syria died after a heart attack on Sept. 9, the country’s Defense Ministry announced in a written statement.  “Sezgin Erdoğan was immediately taken to hospital, however, despite all efforts, he became a martyr,”...

Russia's fighter jets conducted ten airstrikes on rebel pockets in northern Idlib province and parts of Kabana hilltops in coastal latakia province, local reporters said Wednesday. The fresh airstrikes have targeted the western countryside of Idlib city as well the Kaban hillops in the...

The UN on Wednesday dispatched 29 truckloads of humanitarian aid for the needy in the Idlib city of northwestern Syria. The supplies entered the Syrian city through the Cilvegozu border crossing from Turkey's southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among residents...

Turkish security forces have arrested a suspect of the 2013 attack in the Reyhanli district of Turkey's southern Hatay province, the country's interior minister announced Tuesday. Ercan Bayat had been listed in the blue category with a bounty of 3 million Turkish liras ($400,850) in the...

More than 40 members of UN staff and their families have caught coronavirus in Syria, a UN official told AFP Tuesday, warning the illness was spreading in the war-torn country. There were about 200 people including "staff and dependents, spouses, children, parents, who have displayed...

Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Islamic State group out of an overcrowded in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official said Tuesday. So far 76 families have been transferred since July from Al-Hol to the Roj...

Russia is preparing to send 1,000 mercenaries from Syria to reinforce warlord Khalifa Haftar’s illegal forces in eastern Libya, according to local sources. The mercenaries will be sent from areas in eastern Syria that are under the Assad regime’s control, particularly the northeastern...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Iraqi Kurdistan is a hidden treasure: tens of thousands of olive trees, thriving in a new homeland after being smuggled from neighbouring Syria. Their branches are heaving with bright purple-black olives ready to be picked. Their caretaker, Syrian...

Assid returned to his village in Jabal Zawiya region in northern Hama province after months of displacement as the rest of his family are still in a camp near the Syrian-Turkish border, in anticipation of any possible attacks by the regime forces to control what remains of a large pocket south...

President Bashar al Assad said on Monday he wanted to expand business ties with Russia to help Syria cope with new U.S. sanctions on its already crippled economy that threaten to undermine military gains Damascus achieved with Moscow’s help. Assad spoke during a meeting in Damascus with...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Damascus on Monday for talks with President Bashar al-Assad and Syria’s foreign minister, the RIA news agency reported. Russia is a close ally of Assad.

The Syrian Electricity Company has so far fixed 107 power transmission centers in Syria's Aleppo province in 2020, state news agency SANA reported on Sunday. Another 1,250 centers had been fixed in Aleppo between 2016 and 2019, said the report. Citing Muhammad Saleh, the chief...

A so-called Akram AlSelti has been appointed as the new military chief of staff of the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime, replacing Major-General Mohamed Tareq AlKhadraa, who died of coronavirus last month. AlSelti served as deputy chief of staff. He...

 The Syrian authorities have arrested 500 beggars in Damascus, seeking to restrict the mounting number of people who took begging as profession, the Social Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. State-run Tishreen newspaper quoted the Director of Social Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Dumarani, as...

Syria's Agriculture Minister Mohamed Hassan Qatna said that   ongoing “rigorous” investigations are underway on the fires that broke out in northwestern Hama province. The minister's statement to Al-Watan daily came in response to claims that fires were contrived as massive...

More than 200 United Nations staff members have contracted Covid-19 in Syria, as the global body stepped up its contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country, medical workers and UN officials have said. The UN's resident coordinator and humanitarian...