Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Saturday announced their second prison amnesty in the space of five months. The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), said in a statement on Saturday that all prisoners serving time for petty crimes will be...

A Taiwan-funded civic center located on the border between Turkey and Syria was completed on Friday after a year of construction. The building, called the Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens and located in Reyhanli, Hatay Province, southeastern Turkey, is expected to serve as a...

Wrapped in plastic and white sheets, the ashen corpse of Mohammed Al-Shuhna, a Syrian mercenary allegedly killed in Azerbaijan, is shuttled back to north Syria just two weeks after he had first left. In the grainy mobile phone footage sent to The Independent  by Mohamed’s friends, a...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad claimed that US President Donald Trump’s plan to assassinate him is part of a rooted US policy that relies on assassination attempts, while stressing the need for an international balance to deter or punish the US administration for its “evil actions”....