The Public Security Directorate arrested pilot Abdul Wahab Othman, commander of the Hama Military Airport under the former regime. Activists accused him of bombing Syrian cities, towns, and villages with barrel bombs, according to activists. Othman hails from the city of Kafranbel, south of...

Israeli warplanes launched two airstrikes targeting two military sites in the southern countryside of central Homs province, central Syria, on Tuesday evening. The first airstrike targeted a military site between the villages of Shinshar, near the town of al-Qusayr, and Shamsin, near the...

Dutch Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber rejected a plan proposed by members of parliament to allow Syrian refugees in the Netherlands to temporarily return to their homeland without losing their refugee status. The country's lower house of parliament had voted on the temporary measure to give...

Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, rejected the "constitutional declaration" issued by the new Syrian administration on Tuesday, considering it "a dictatorial declaration that grants absolute powers to one person and establishes a new authoritarian...