Israeli warplanes last year intercepted Iranian aircraft headed toward Syria, preventing them from delivering troops meant to assist the country’s embattled president at the time, Bashar al-Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. The remarks in a speech gave a new...

The Syrian presidency rejected on Sunday a Kurdish call for a decentralized state, warning against attempts at separatism or federalism by the minority group. “We reject clearly any attempt to impose a separatist reality or to create separate entities under the cover of federalism......

Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced on Sunday that they would settle Syria’s debt to the World Bank totaling roughly $15 million, according to a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency. Both Gulf states have played a key role in the diplomatic outreach to Syria’s new rulers since the...

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday that the Homs Security Directorate had arrested Major General Assaf Issa al-Nissani, a prominent military leader in the ousted regime, implicated in war crimes against civilians. This came according to an official statement published by...