Syria's government on Tuesday decided to establish a "space agency" to conduct scientific research despite the civil war that has torn the country apart and devastated its economy. State news agency SANA said the cabinet had approved a project to create the so-called Syrian Space...

At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded in a mortar shelling on suburbs of Syria's capital of Damascus Tuesday evening, the pro-government Sama TV reported. The mortars targeted the southern suburbs of Babila, Yalda, Beit Sahem, the report said, adding that ambulances...

The UN Palestinian refugee agency on Tuesday resumed food distribution in the besieged Yarmuk camp in Damascus after a two-week halt. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said aid workers distributed 465 food parcels in addition to bread and jam, as well as 2,000 doses of polio vaccines and...

  The United States on Tuesday formally notified the Syrian government that it must suspend operations at its embassy here and at its two consulates in Michigan and Texas, the State Department said. The move stops short of a formal break of relations, but it bars Syria...