Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country, state media reported Monday. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad, who was chosen...

Two Syrian regime forces were killed in separate attacks by rebel groups in northern Idlib province.   Al-Fateh al-Mubeen's operation room said its fighters had killed an army officer and one soldier in separate attacks in Kafranbel town and near the M4 highway.   In its turn, the...

At least two civilians were killed and four more wounded on Sunday by a bomb hidden in motorbike in northeastern Raqqa province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   The booby-trapped motorbike exploded in the industrial zone of the town of Soluk which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish...

Syria's Bashar Assad issued a decree Sunday granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed before May 2, state news agency SANA said. SANA did not give a reason for the amnesty but it came days before Muslims celebrate Eid el-Fitr, the feast that marks...