A woman from the capital Damascus has applied to run for president of Syria, the parliament speaker said Tuesday, making her the first female to make a bid for the country's top job. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad. The presidential election,...

 The annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday (April 20) that journalism was at least partly blocked in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed. Its World Press Freedom Index found that journalism was "totally blocked or seriously impeded" in 73...

Zaman Al-Wasl will suspend publishing for an hour on Tuesday (between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Damascus time) in mourning for the veteran Michel Kilo who died of COVID-19 in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against the Assad regime.  Kilo, who turned 80 last year,...

The global chemical weapon watchdog will this week decide whether to impose sanctions on Syria after it confirmed that the Bashar Assad regime used chlorine gas in a 2018 attack on an opposition region. Member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...