At least 11 Syrian soldiers were killed in the country's northwest on Saturday, after militants detonated explosives in tunnels under army positions. Those responsible for the attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, included members of the Ansar al-Tawhid group and the...

The protests in the southern city of Suwayda entered their seventh day, recording a large public presence from most of the towns and villages, concentrated in al-Karama Square, reiterating the call for the departure of the regime and the implementation of UN Resolution No. 2254 (2015) that...

Russian air strikes in opposition controlled northwestern Syria killed two people on Tuesday evening, the White Helmets rescue group said.   An AFP correspondent at the scene reported that two Russian raids were launched in the town of Ain Shib, west of the city of Idlib. ...

Syrians living in Latakia, a coastal city thought to be generally supportive of the Assad regime, took to social media to express their discontent with its policies this week as rare protests intensified in the country's southern provinces. Ayman Fares, a resident of the town of Banias just...

BEIRUT (AP) — Protests spread Monday in two government-held provinces in southern Syria amid widespread anger over increasing prices, the crash of the Syrian pound and the dwindling purchasing power of many people in the war-torn country, opposition activists said. The rare protests are...

Protests against declining living conditions and the Syrian regime's economic policies spread across southern Syria this week, a rarity in a country where open dissent is often punishable by imprisonment and torture. A general strike was declared in the Druze-majority province of Suweida,...

The Jordanian military on Sunday downed a drone carrying crystal meth that was flying into Jordanian territory from neighbouring Syria, the state news agency Petra reported. War-torn Syria has become a hub for a multi-billion-dollar drugs trade, with Jordan a main transit route to the...

Zaman al-Wasl learned that the Lebanese Hezbollah militia produced a new type of Captagon narcotic pills in a border town in the western countryside of Damascus for the first time within one of its military headquarters. A private source said that the militia has equipped one of its largest...

The sound of repeated explosions could be heard in the area around the Syrian capital before dawn on Sunday, state media and Damascus residents said. There was no immediate statement from government officials on the source or target of the attack, but similar incidents in the past have...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an ambush in eastern Syria that killed and wounded dozens of soldiers as opposition activists said the death toll rose Saturday to at least 33 as some of the wounded succumbed to their injuries. The attack is among the...

Gunmen have ambushed a bus carrying Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, killing at least 20 and wounding others, opposition activists said Friday. The Thursday night attack was believed to be carried out by members of the Islamic State group whose sleeper cells in parts of Syria still...

The Syrian pound continued its course towards collapse, for the fifth day in a row, to record an unprecedented exchange rate against the dollar and the euro, during Thursday's trading. In the outcome of daily transactions, and compared to the closing prices of the previous day, the “Aleppo...

The United Nations announced late Tuesday that an agreement had been reached with Syria to reopen the main border crossing from Turkey to its rebel-held northwest for six months. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the “understanding” reached following talks between U.N....

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit areas around Damascus early Monday, killing at least four Syrian soldiers, Syrian state media reported. Syrian state television, citing a military source, said four other soldiers were also wounded while the strikes caused “some material damage.”...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group announced on Thursday the death in Syria of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, who headed the extremist organization since November, and named his successor. The group did not say when al-Qurayshi was killed but added that...

The state-run Tishreen newspaper reported Monday unprecedented rise in resignations from various government and public sectors, coinciding with a stifling economic crisis and a historic collapse of the local currency. In Damascus alone, the number of resignations during the first half of...

Daesh group militants attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said. “Five regime forces and two drivers have been killed in the armed attack by Daesh militants” in the east of Hama...

A motorcycle planted with explosives detonated in a Damascus suburb near a Shiite Muslim shrine Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens a day before the solemn holy day of Ashoura, state media reported, citing the interior ministry. Syrian Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash...

Two shepherds died on Wednesday in artillery shelling of the regime forces on the western countryside of Aleppo, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The two family members were killed on Wednesday evening, as a result of artillery shelling by the regime forces and militias backed by Russia and...

The Syrian Civil Defense Agency said that the number of cholera deaths in northwestern Syria, the stronghold of the opposition, since the first death was recorded in September of last year 2022 until July 19, has risen to 24, while the number of infected people has risen to 856. The White...