Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo in the second such raid in less than a week, state media said on Monday. The Syrian regime army said in a statement that Israel hit military barracks in al...

President Bashar al-Assad warned Monday of a "catastrophe" in war-battered Syria if the easing of lockdown measures against coronavirus is mishandled. The government in Damascus has officially recorded 44 cases of COVID-19, including three deaths, while Kurdish authorities in the country's...

Turkey will no longer tolerate terrorist harassment in the Idlib safe zone in northwestern Syria or ramped-up attacks which flout agreements, Turkey’s president said Monday. Terrorist groups are trying to exploit Turkey's preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to step up attacks...

Unknown gunmen abducted and killed nine policemen Monday in southern Daraa province in a rare such attack on a government building in the defeated cradle of the nine-year uprising, a monitor said. The killings, for which there were no immediate claim of responsibility, occurred in the...