DAMASCUS, Syria — Israel carried out an airstrike on the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs late Friday, in the first such attack in more than a month, state media reported. There were no casualties in the strikes. The Syrian military said later that several Israeli missiles...

BEIRUT -- Syrian authorities found a mass grave in the historic town of Palmyra with bodies of victims of the militant Islamic State group, which controlled the area years ago, Syria's state news agency said Friday. According to the report on SANA, the mass grave was discovered near the...

The Jordanian authorities announced Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees returning to their country within 9 months has reached 3,325 people. She stated that the number of Syrians returning from 2016 until the end of last September was 341,500, of whom 64,278 were Syrian refugees...

LONDON (AP) — Staffers at the World Health Organization’s Syrian office have alleged that their boss mismanaged millions of dollars, plied government officials with gifts -- including computers, gold coins and cars -- and acted frivolously as COVID-19 swept the country. More than 100...

A group of families appealed to the missing youth in the "death boat" that sank off Arwad Island in Tartus province on September 20 to reveal the fate of their sons, accusing the Assad regime and its intelligence of being responsible for their disappearance, especially since the missing are only...

France said on Thursday it carried out a new operation to return French nationals - 40 children and 15 women - from Kurdish-run camps in northeastern Syria.  The children were handed over to the child care services and will have medical and social follow-ups, the foreign ministry said...

Mayor of Dutch Nyjmegen city honored the Syrian Moaz Murad for the "heroic" act he performed, when he threw himself without hesitation in the waters of the "Waal" river on a very cold day and saved the life of the son of his city, the Dutch De Settenor newspaper  reported. . The...

The German SZ newspaper  reported Tuesday that the trial of two Syrians was held over an attempt to smuggle large quantities of Captagon (amphetamine) tablets from illegal drug laboratories abroad. The newspaper revealed that the defendants' defense demanded a prison term of six and a...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Canadian national who lived in Southern California was sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison on Monday for helping at least a half-dozen Canadians and Americans join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013 and 2014 — including the first known American to die fighting for the...

Russian and Syrian forces have killed 20 militants in an operation in southern Syria, including those responsible for blowing up a troop bus, a Russian officer was quoted as saying late on Sunday. Major General Oleg Yegorov, quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency, said the operation took place...

Dozens of residents of the "Euphrates Shield" and "Olive Branch" areas, northeast of Aleppo province, went out on Sunday in demonstrations in several towns and villages, expressing their refusal the control of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" (formerly known as Nusra Front) on several towns in the...

The Austrian De Press newspaper reported that 2,500 high-priority measures have been carried out due to people smuggling and abuse of asylum, since last May, during which 68,800 migrants were arrested, most of them from Syria, Afghanistan and India. The newspaper pointed out that at the...

A local relief group documented the toll of violations committed against civilians due to the rebel infighting that took place in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo over the past days. The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that at least 5 civilians were killed and 38...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Saturday accused Turkey of forcing 92 migrants to cross into Greece and stripping them naked before doing so. Greek police said that police officers found the migrants stark naked on Friday, “some with bodily injuries” who had entered the country...

Since September 2022, northeast and northwest Syria have been facing a major cholera outbreak. First linked to the contaminated water near the Euphrates River and the severe water shortage in the north of Syria, the outbreak has now spread across the country, and more than 13,000 suspected cases...

On Thursday, a Syrian human rights center revealed the existence of 7 sites used by the Islamic State group to hold Syrian and Western detainees. The Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability said that "the information it collected during the criminal legal cases filed against the...

Lebanese health authorities on Friday detected the first case of cholera outbreak inside a Syrian refugee camp in the Bekaa town of Qab Elias. Lebanese media reported that the Governor of the Bekaa, Kamal Abu Joudeh, followed up with the concerned parties the case that was registered...

Syrian Oil Minister Bassam Tohme asked his Algerian counterpart, Minister of Energy, Mohamed Arkab, to supply Syria with domestic gas, on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum, which started on Wednesday in Moscow and will continue until the 14th of this month. The Syrian Oil...

 Police in North Macedonia said Thursday that 26 migrants, who had been crammed into two cars driven by suspected smugglers, have been detained near the southern border with Greece. A police statement said the cars were near the town of Valandovo late Wednesday when the drivers spotted...

A 1,600-year-old virtually intact Roman-era mosaic has been discovered in central Syria. The mosaic, measuring 20 x 6m (65.5 x 20ft), was found under a building in Rastan near Homs, which was held by rebels in the civil war until 2018. Showing mythical scenes including the Trojan...