Prominent Syrian pro-regime businessman Baraa Katerji was killed in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Monday, three security sources told Reuters. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the strike. Katerji was part of a small circle of businessmen close to...

One Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Israeli air strikes against military sites and a residential building in Damascus early on Sunday, the Syrian army said. The army said in a statement that the attacks were launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights....

Protests broke out in various towns in Syria’s eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, demanding better living conditions and services and the release of detainees held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Local Syrian news websites published Tuesday photos and videos of protests in the towns...

Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party’s grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria’s largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil war...

Hussein al-Naasan struggles to provide water for his family in the scorching summer, as aid funds have dried up and conditions deteriorated in impoverished displacement camps in Syria’s northwest. “Water is life, it is everything... and now we are being deprived of water,” Naasan told AFP...

An Israeli strike in Syria Tuesday killed a former personal bodyguard of Hezbollah leader, an official with the Lebanese militant group said. The news comes hours after an Israeli drone strike on a car in Syria near the Syria-Lebanon border was reported by a war monitor and by...

ISIS extremists killed eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in Syria’s Badia desert, a war monitor reported Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack occurred on Wednesday evening as the militiamen were en route to search...

An Israeli airstrike on northwestern Syria caused material damage, local media reported on Tuesday. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that "an Israeli aggression targeted one point in the vicinity of Baniyas city at an early hour of Tuesday." It added that the Israeli airstrike...

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) –  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's media adviser Luna al-Shibl died on Friday three days after being injured in a car crash, Assad's office announced. "The presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic mourns the death of the adviser Luna al-Shibl, who...

Six civilians were wounded Wednesday in an attack by the Syrian Army in Idlib province. Military forces and Iran-backed foreign terrorist groups stationed in the city of Saraqib launched an artillery attack on the town of Sarmin. The wounded were transported to nearby hospitals, according to...

The Russian-backed Syrian regime army has sent military reinforcements in the Badia desert in preparation for carrying out a massive sweeping operation against Islamic State's sleeping cells, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl Forces from the 25th Special Tasks Division, the 5th...

The US-backed Kurdish-led forces arrested hundreds in northern and eastern Syria, with the aim of compulsory conscription, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. On Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raided a machine factory in the town of Gharanij in the eastern countryside of Deir...

Members of the Kurdish forces killed a civilian in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province Sunday, the Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.  The victim, identified by his initials A.H.D., was abducted from the village of Direnc earlier Sunday, local sources said on condition of anonymity. A.H.D....

The Syrian rebel coalition known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) has signed an action plan with the United Nations to prevent and end the recruitment of child soldiers. In an announcement on Monday by UN’s Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed...

The  elections  to be held in northern  Syria  by the  YPG  have been  postponed  once again as a result of Ankara’s steadfast reaction, the Turkish security sources have said. The YPG, the Syrian leg of the PKK terror organization, was planning...

An Iranian military adviser was killed in northern Syria in an apparent Israeli airstrike, local media reported on Monday.  According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, the strike on military points in Aleppo left a military adviser of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)...

A group of about 20 women got down on their knees outside Russia's Defense Ministry on Monday to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine. Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilized into the Russian army by ...

International donors meeting in Brussels said Monday they will commit 7.5 billion euros ($8.1 billion) in both grants and loans to support Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger for the rest of this year and beyond. The pledges surpassed the modest $4.07 billion that the United...

The explosion comes as an Israeli drone attack reportedly targeted a car and a truck near Syria’s border with Lebanon. A car explosion has killed one person in Syria’s capital Damascus, Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the victim. “One person was killed when an...

Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer. The statement said Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to...