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...

Syria’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Israeli strikes on the southwestern city of Daraa, which it said killed and injured civilians . The strikes a day earlier killed at least three people and injured 19 others, the Syrian civil defense group, known as the White Helmets, said....

The Syrian Ministry of Interior seized quantities of weapons and ammunition on Tuesday during a sweep operation conducted by Public Security Forces around the Russian Hmeimim airbase in the Latakia countryside, northwestern Syria. According to the Ministry, the weapons were found near the...