A fire and riot broke out in a prison in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria on Saturday, killing at least seven people, state media reported. The SANA news agency said the fire started when inmates in the Kobani prison rioted over tensions that erupted in the town the previous...

The honest employees and staff of the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), including engineers and technicians—whose memories cannot be bought or erased—are still awaiting the release of the Central Financial Control Authority's inspection report on the contractual violations and large-scale...

Damascus, Sept. 11 (SANA) Preliminary investigations into nine pilots recently arrested in Latakia Province, western Syria, have shown that they logged more than 3,200 flight hours and sorties since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, including airstrikes targeting several areas, a...

Aleppo, Sept. 11 (SANA) Development work at the existing Aleppo International Airport will begin in early 2027, with the project expected to raise annual passenger capacity to more than 2 million as Syria moves ahead with a broader Saudi-backed plan to modernize the airport and build a new...

Israeli occupation forces targeted the vicinity of Bat al-Wardah hill near the town of Beit Jinn in western rural Damascus with artillery fire on Friday, with no reports of casualties. The shelling also struck historical sites and buildings. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that...

Damascus, Sept. 9 (SANA) Children across Syria continue to face the dangers posed by landmines and explosive remnants of war, as awareness, survey and clearance efforts seek to protect them and ensure their safe return to areas contaminated by remnants left behind by the ousted regime....

Damascus, Sep. 9 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa received Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi at the People’s Palace in Damascus, with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad al-Shaibani attending. The meeting...

Idlib, Sept. 9 (SANA) The death toll from an explosion at a temporary weapons and war remnants storage facility near Sarmada in northern Idlib countryside rose to 14 on Wednesday, with 11 others injured, according to a preliminary toll. Sobhi Assaf, director of the media office at the Idlib...

Damascus, Sep.9 (SANA) The Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemned Wednesday the illegal entry of Israeli Occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into Syrian territory and his tour of Mount Hermon, describing the move as a provocative act and a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty,...

The CEO of the Syrian Petroleum Company, Youssef Qablawi, announced the commencement of the first comprehensive overhaul in the history of the Banias Oil Refinery. The current development plan aims to bring about a qualitative leap in the energy sector by increasing the facility's...

Qamishli, Sept. 8 (SANA) Qamishli International Airport is nearing a return to service as rehabilitation work enters its final stages, part of a broader plan to reconnect Syrian provinces to the country’s air transport network. A delegation from Syria’s General Authority of Civil...

Sweida, Sept. 7 (SANA) The Drug Enforcement Department at the Ministry of Interior foiled an attempt by outlaw groups to smuggle large quantities of narcotics toward Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the countryside of Sweida province using guided balloons. The security operation resulted in...

Tartous, Sept. 07 (SANA) The Internal Security Forces in Tartous province, in cooperation with the Anti-Terrorism Directorate, arrested former Major General Mohammad Ali Dirgham, a prominent military officer under the deposed regime, following a tracking operation. In a statement on Monday,...

Questions are mounting in the Syrian capital, Damascus, regarding the continued detention of dozens of money exchange office owners accused of operating without a license, particularly in the Damascus countryside. A protest is planned in front of the Ministry of Justice. Families of the...

Damascus, Sept. 6 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Sunday accepted the credentials of seven newly- appointed ambassadors to the Syrian Arab Republic during official ceremonies held at the People’s Palace in Damascus, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad...

Damascus, Sep. 5 (SANA) The International Criminal Police Organization ( Interpol ) has canceled an international alert issued in 2024 listing 24,511 Syrian passports as stolen, Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Interior Col. Abdul Rahim Jabara announced Saturday....

A source told Zaman al-Wasl that investigations by the Central Authority for Control and Inspection uncovered a large-scale financial corruption case within the General Tobacco Corporation. The case stemmed from irregularities in the procurement of cellulose acetate (a material used in...

Idlib, Sept. 4 (SANA) A convoy carrying 308 displaced families left camps in Idlib on Thursday to return to their villages and towns across five Syrian provinces, as efforts continue to help families displaced by the deposed regime return to their areas of origin. The families are returning...

Quneitra (SANA) Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells toward the vicinity of eastern Tal al-Ahmar in the southern Quneitra countryside on Thursday.  SANA’s reporter in Quneitra said that the occupation forces fired two artillery shells toward the area, with no injuries...

Syria has begun destroying chemical weapon materials identified by an international watchdog, the country’s UN envoy said Thursday, signaling a major step forward since the 2024 ouster of Bashar al-Al-Assad. “This is the very first destruction process since we have been liberated from the...